Like my mother-in-law always told me
Don, you’re the best thing that ever happened to this family!
Don, you’re the best thing that ever happened to this family!
There is a handful, or maybe fewer writers today that are always welcome in my inbox. Their letters will always be read first by me and read as quickly as I am aware of their existence.
These peeps are not only good writers, but it goes deeper than that. Their emails are a bit like welcome letters from home.
They are refreshing. They have a personality. Sometimes they are just a hoot.
I, being a news junkie, frequently watch the evening television newscasts. I notice that with many reporters, and especially the newer ones, there is a tendency to put on their “announcer voice” when the video starts to roll.
I know it is supposed to sound more dramatic, but I also know it is quite automatic and a bit unintended by newer people. It may be years before they can realize that it sounds unnatural and can relax enough to lose the “Walter Cronkite Syndrome.”
That’s a long way to say the writers I enjoy most are not obviously trying to be writers, they are themselves. They have their own voice and personality. They just write, too, coincidentally.
They are a part of the family.
I only hope that my writing can become disciplined enough to seem like a note from an old friend.
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