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Originally Posted by Quexos
If you want to improve your writing you must write but people don't do that anymore in this digital day and age...
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People, as a group, probably write more now than they ever did before in the history of humankind. Composing emails, text messages, forum posts, and blogging or chatting online, are all writing tasks. Looking back thirty years, when I was in my teenage years, there was much less need to write.
Granted, none of this is prose or "quality" writing, but still, even in those areas the internet and the computer era have made it possible for everyone to share their creative writing. Many of the publishing barriers have been lessened or removed, and everyone can express themselves to an international audience (instead of a couple friends and relatives), if they so wish. The now common spellcheckers also help, because they provide instantaneous feedback and show the correct way.
Back then, and even more so in the pre-computer age, fewer people communicated textually, so poor spelling or grammar weren't nearly as noticeable.