Like me, Alex recognizes the true significance of wordcraft.
Writing has always been a valuable skill. Throughout human history, writers have held a place of honor, from the moment pen was first set to page.
It is upon that very moment, of course, that our entire concept of history hinges: the recording of events, codified and concretized; permanence imparted by a written account.
We are perhaps too embedded in our current experience to recognize our participation in the ongoing creation of that chronicle.
Everything you write—every text, every article, every comment, every DM—each of them a tiny link in a great chain connecting you to a tradition going back thousands of years.
It’s all connected.
Everything from the classics to the cereal box you read at breakfast when you were a kid, to this sentence, right here and now.
A vast, sweeping tapestry of words and ideas.
We forget how lucky we are. Throughout most of human history, literacy was reserved for those breathing the rarified air.
Today, it’s the norm. We can ALL express our ideas through writing. And through technology, share them instantly.
We should be in a Golden Age of Writing.
Sadly, we're seeing the inverse: despite near-universal access to the world’s most valuable skill…
…people, on the whole, are getting worse at writing.
But.
As is almost always the case, in tragedy there is opportunity.
Because in a world in which your customers are reading thousands of words per day from dozens of people, when YOURS stand out as well-written and engaging...
You win. Every time.