This website offers another opportunity for people to make a bit of money doing some writing.
This time I had to squeeze into 120 words 'what makes a good writer?'
I was gently told I had not been immediately successful but my attempt would be kept on record for future reference. Nevertheless I thought I would share what I managed to come up with in that short space...
What makes a good writer can be considered
both objectively and subjectively. Objectively a good writer is simply anyone
with excellent spelling and grammar; subjectively this question is more
difficult to answer.
Today a good writer is someone who can
successfully compete for a reader’s interest against the different media that
are only a mouse click away. If a
picture is worth a thousand words, how many is a video worth? These media provide
so much information in such a small space that they easily capture the
ever-shortening attention span of today’s mouse-clickers.
A good writer is someone who is able to
avert a reader’s eyes from these flashing lights. Someone who can construct an
argument or tell a story in a way that holds the readers attention. A good writer is someone who can force a
reader into taking their time, into becoming engrossed, to really think about
something.
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