[bigjantailor]

The article is exactly what the scribes said when the printing press was invented.

I am for the revolution, the more people that write the better the world is.

As I've said before I'm dyslexic (I'm not looking for pity, it how my brain is organized). Years ago working a graveyard shift I started writing to get better at writing. I have gotten better at writing but by no means am I perfect. The more feeling I have for a piece of work the less likely it will be mistake free. However, I have got to a point where I can work in field needing high literacy and excel in it. The ability to publish online, communicate with writers online and be able to work at that dream with more tangible results than the when traditional or vanity polishing were the only choices has made me write more and be a better person.

If there is one person on a thousand out there who betters them self with the help of easy access to forum for their writing, the world is a better one. More writing combats the dumping down our leaders and the market tries to do to us every day. So if a few people lose a lively hood from the revolution so be it... if they made it as writes they won't be working at Mcdick's.

As for the flood of content, in a long run it's a good thing. Right now we are a few years into new world that has not been mapped. The organization that is out there to show what writing goes where has not evolved enough to get writer’s work to the right places. That is why we are here on the forum to sort out where we fit and finding our markets. One thing about the writing market is that is one of the few where a niche market could make someone successful. For example a best seller in Canada is like 10,000 books that 1 sold to every 3,000 Canadians. Now, with the ability to publish book on almost anything a specialized group like model train lover could number 40,000 and you bet they’d like to buy my new mystery on the Model Orient Express. The market will start to stratify. More specialty areas will arise that should make for more opportunities to write the book you really want. Or you can call me Candide.

The proof reading thing I do get. You’ll be happy to know that I get an editor to copy edit the stuff I publish. A certain level of professionalize should be expected. I think it will work itself out in the same way the market will stratify. And venues for buying books will have expectations of the quality of the product.

But I hope you haters of bad grammar can put some context into the your reasoning for hating bad grammar. At least look at writing and writer and say, ‘is this a person I should come down on because they had the ability and resources to make it perfect or is it someone who is a neophyte, who needs guidance.’ Truly, not easy to do but if you do that I'll read more stuff by haters of bad grammar.

Oh, with all that stuff about the market regulating its self, I still lean toward Marx rather than Freadman.

I also question anything in the Globe and Mail.

Have fun, Jan