What is writing?
To answer this question, let us first consider:
Remarkable facts - speaking and writing
· Everyone learns to write several years after he has learned how to make sounds.
· Most people speak more words in a month than they write in a lifetime
· A normal speaking rate is one hundred words a minute.
· If you talk for two hours a day – some persons talk more than this, some less – you would utter 12,000 words in a day.
· In a week at this rate, you would speak the length of a novel of 84,000 words.
· In a month, you would deliver yourself of 360,000 words
· In a year more than four million.
In his busy productive lifetime, not even Shakespeare wrote nearly that much.
What is writing?
Writing is a learned and earned skill.
Writing words or putting speech on paper is ≠ writing.
