--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > I remember my first post to him was to ask him to use > paragraph breaks so we could more easily read what he > was saying. Remember how he used to post in one massive > block of text? I always thought that was odd for a guy > who had written books, to not have any awareness of > his reader.
Catching up (I've been busy...uh...having a life), I have to comment on this because it's one of my pet peeves. It's an indication of someone who has never really had to write for an audience that is not already committed to him (read, someone who has never written for a non-cult audience). Anyone who actually *cared* about their audience would have cut things into smaller paragraphs without a second thought. That's just what one DOES when writing for a modern audience, one trained by our modern "fast cut" media to have a short attention span. But nooooooo. What is even more fascinating to me is the fact that a supposedly "professional editor" never called him on it. I mean, we're talking about someone who nitpicks and corrects even the slightest grammatical infraction as if it were a Mortal Sin. But Robin got a total pass. What's up with that, eh?
