<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Sep 18, 2015, at 11:40 AM, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On 18 September 2015 at 19:28, Dan wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>That should've been an "if" as Adrian noted. Also, looking it over, I</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>should've QAed the whole thing.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It should've read:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"I'm saying one should NOT limit oneself to trying to be like them in terms</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>of writing -- as IF ANYONE writing unlike Hemingway (or unlike a caricature</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>of Hemingway) has missed the boat."</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Please forgive the confusion. Or call me Entropian. ;)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Do you think modern authors are worse writers now they use word</span><br><span>processors with spellcheck, autocorrect, grammar checkers, thesaurus</span><br><span>and formatting? And online fact checks and searches?</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>I read a book relating that an editor notice a decline in writing quality that he later found coincided with his authors switching to word processors. The book was written in the early 1990s. </div><div><br></div><div>I don't know. I haven't seen any data. I'm not old enough to note this in myself -- and it might be a matter of the craftsman blaming the tools.</div><div><br></div><div>If anything, it seems from my reading that editors and agents hold writers to a higher standard now. (You can always self-publish, of course.) Finding enough typos in a draft is, from what I've heard, can be ground for rejection. This simply because there's usually a huge backlog anyhow and editors and agents expect you to already have mastered the basics. At least, this is my experience.</div><div><br></div><div><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Regards,</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Dan</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: '.HelveticaNeueInterface-Regular'; font-size: 13pt;"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/" target="_blank" style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueInterface-Regular'; font-size: 13pt;">http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/</a></div></div></div></body></html>