Does Quality Writing Matter Anymore?

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I read a book on writing last week that talked about the misuse of adverbs, commas, and dead constructions and why they ruin the quality of a writing. After that, I have been conscious of quality when I write even if I struggle to execute the lessons.

The problem is that I have been judgmental of how others write like I judged the quality of a school classroom-guitarist even if I couldn’t play a note myself. I have been on a watch out for errors in everything I read.

And I found a lot of errors on a live written cricket update this morning. In fact, I found it terrible. They used a lot of adverbs, adjectives, passive voice, and dead constructions. I laughed at them and tried to imagine the face of the amateur writer that would have written them. And I laughed at the imagined face.

But as with all sudden realizations, I realized something all of a sudden:

I understood what that piece of cricket update tried to convey irrespective of the quality. Yes, it could have been conveyed better with better words, but it would have been conveyed even better with a video. The point was to convey it in the website’s context. It was a cricket website, not a literary class.

And it conveyed the update well. I never visit cricket websites with a…