Online Writers, Unite!

Has Jennifer Garrett, a Boston blogger, been reading my Writer’s Edge blog? I hope so. She’s built a Blogger Knowledge article from references to the Lynne Truss book about which I’ve been babbling on. (See July 04, 2004, Freedom From Bad Writing!, August 09, 2004, Free Books, Almost, and August 14, 2004, Let Them Have Blogs! and the listing for Truss’ book in the blog’s sidebar for the last month or so.) In fact, the Writer’s Edge blog practically began with a rant about the poor punctuation, spelling, grammar, and syntax (Writing Right, June 7, 2004) that I see online all the time. Truss’ book has a punctuation focus, but Garrett’s online guidelines range farther, into the fields of content, brevity, and especially Capitalization.

Eats, Blogs and Leaves applies Truss’ dicta to blog writing. I can’t think of a higher tribute! I hope Garrett’s article becomes required reading for all online writers, no matter what they call their work. While I’m hardly an example of perfection in posting, the mistakes I make are “honest” ones, rather than the products of sloppy, careless haste, she said, hopefully.

You can leave comments on Georganna’s writing errors at Writer’s Edge.