2024 02 13

A steaming Lake Michigan as seen from Leone Beach on Chicago’s far north side on a frigid day. January, 2024 © Clayton Hauck

I stumbled on this video over on twitter and it struck me as being great advice on writing. So much so I revisited it, now that I have this daily blog going, to take it in once again.

2nd: In the real world, people are not paid to read your stuff, like your teachers were.

So, everything you learned in school about writing is wrong. pic.twitter.com/hmEW5wHhfA

— Louie Bacaj (@LBacaj) June 13, 2023

Teachers read your writing because they are being paid to do so. Once school is over, your writing needs to stand on it’s own. The only reason anyone will read your writing is if it has some value to them. Value can be entertainment; value can be information; value can be data mining to guess my bank password; but if it’s not valuable to the reader nothing else matters.

So yeah, I’m off to think up with some value for tomorrow’s post.

-Clayton