Challenge
$50 prize. What does it mean to be a good writer? Does good writing even matter, or have Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok etc. turned us into mindless, unsophisticated zombies who no longer care for grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, or creativity?
$50 to the author of whichever post I find most insightful.
Deep as a half filled glass
The term good writer is so vauge as to be impossible to define. If grammer is vital, then was Shakespere an embarassingly bad writer? If puncuation is key, why is it so easily disregarded for the sake of style? If vocabulary is important, why do paragraphs stuffed with large words and obsure phrases bore us to tears?
A bad writer is easily found. The only persistent mark of a good writer is sheer grit.