[caption id="attachment_16469" align="alignleft" width="300"] Proofreading: My first professional mistake.[/caption]
Everyone makes mistakes, right?
This article is about my first professional mistake. It involves writing ...
I saw the poster below erected next to a road in Bluffdale, Utah, and not only did I stop to take some pictures of the poster to share on Twitter and Facebook, I also knew I needed to share the image here as well.
In fact, it was this poster and its poor writing that led me to decide to launch Writing Matters, a new feature I will suspect become a regular item on this Blog.
So here's the photo.
I've been a Writer since I was in the Third Grade — the year I earned an A+ for a short story that was my riff/take on the 1950s SciFi movie, the classic (and campy), Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Like most professionals, I wrote hundreds of papers and reports during my educational endeavors.
Given a career path that's seen me expand from public relations into investor relations and then from advertising into marketing, it's not surprising that I've now written — and edited — thousands of professional documents as well, from news releases to financial reports and from brochures to marketing plans.
On top of these efforts, I also self-syndicated a weekly column (Utah Tech Watch) for 10+ years, writing/editing 500+ columns from the early 1990s through the early 2000s. And I'm now nearing the completion of my first book, a work that will probably top out somewhere around 30,000 words. (More about this in a future Blog post.)
