I thought of myself as a good writer. This showed me there is room to improve.
I pulled this off my work-from-home blog. We were talking about writing skills when this came up.
Robert Kusakis once said that every one of us is only one skill away from being a milionare. He never mentioned wich skill, but I gor the idea when my friend Rose said something about some of her students. ‘These are all post graduate students, you would think they can manage english properly.’ she said. She gives english language courses for Post Graduate students at the university – most of them graduated in engeneering or cemistry or something like that.
Since I mostly write for a living that set me thinking. How good am I at the skill I use most. It appears I am not too good at it. I actualy thought I were doing great. That was untill I started submitting wirk to Triond.com. When you submit anything to them, it gets screened. Then they send you a polite letter to tell you where it were posted. If you failed the screening, they send you an equally polite letter to tell you what mistakes you made and where they put it so you can correct these mistakes and post it again.
I love that, I simply sit down and correct my mistakes. It works very well. I started thinking of myself as a literary genius. Then I started getting reviews saying that my work has too many readability errors. That made me sit up. Readability error means that, whatever I wrote, someone is going to struggle understanding it. Not good when you blog or get paid to write.
So using the tool is simple, submit to Triond. Its cheaper than a writing tutor and with a bit of effort you can figure out your own mistakes until you dont get back any error reports.
Tags: writing error, writing skill, writing tool
August 22nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
its also nice knowing that people from all over the world is looking at your stuff and giving you their feedback on how good your work is, if they dont like it they dont response which is also good, sandie x. keep writing.