Comments on: Waves of Worthless lit and book blogs http://nigelbeale.com/2009/06/10/waves-of-worthless-lit-and-book-blogs/ Musings on the Book, Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the Arts, and Audio Interviews from The Biblio File radio program pertaining to same by a writer, broadcaster, bibliophile. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:51:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Biblibio http://nigelbeale.com/2009/06/10/waves-of-worthless-lit-and-book-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-53936 Biblibio Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:30:14 +0000 http://nigelbeale.com/?p=3612#comment-53936 I'm not really sure that's a better judge than anything else that's been suggested. What determines "well-written"? That the site (for the most part) abides by the rules of the English language? Sometimes typos and stupid mistakes come out. Sometimes people stick in stupid jokes that don't translate that well on screen that they just miss when proofreading. It happens. Besides, "well-written" depends on the audience as well. If your audience is composed of scholars and professors, chances are your writing will be pretentious and difficult to understand. If you're just writing for yourself and others like you, it'll probably be a simpler style. Well-conceived, I get: these are all relevant claims. But well-written sounds no different than "first vs. second wave" and falls into the same traps. I’m not really sure that’s a better judge than anything else that’s been suggested. What determines “well-written”? That the site (for the most part) abides by the rules of the English language? Sometimes typos and stupid mistakes come out. Sometimes people stick in stupid jokes that don’t translate that well on screen that they just miss when proofreading. It happens.

Besides, “well-written” depends on the audience as well. If your audience is composed of scholars and professors, chances are your writing will be pretentious and difficult to understand. If you’re just writing for yourself and others like you, it’ll probably be a simpler style. Well-conceived, I get: these are all relevant claims. But well-written sounds no different than “first vs. second wave” and falls into the same traps.

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