That's when I started writing. Words poured, gloom lifted. I was transformed. It is that experience of prolonged writing, that transforming fondness for words, which I am here to talk about today. It is a fondness that unites authors and which, in our present era of techno-obsession, is being trashed by cybermachines.
Writing is the fundamental communications skill.
Electronic communicators and broadcasters should realise this. In broadcasting these days we chuck people on air. Some work, some fail. The only discussion of authorial skills is the requirement of brevity. It's as if there were no tradition of grammar, of rules of writing, or of training.