From:
VisualThinker7@zzzzzzz
Date:
Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:08:50 EST
Subject:
The dead art of writing letters
Some of us who kept the art of writing letters alive for years have
discovered that the recipients of our letters rarely read the letters all the way
through, or pay close enough attention to fully understand what we've said
(this becomes apparent in subsequent conversations or correspondence).
We have a kind of chicken/egg spiral of defective attention to written
material, less attention to writing well when it won't be thoroughly read, which
leads to less reading of poorly written letters, which further discourages
those of us who CAN write from doing it well....
How stupid do we feel for having put real time, energy and thought into
writing a good letter, only to have it largely ignored, and our ideas shrugged
off? Guess...
PS: It might be something like doing a lot of careful hand carving of stone,
only to have people assume that the work is ceramic, and largely ignore it
when they see it in a gallery.
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