I’m not subscribed to Skellie’s blog, however I was over there in search for some of her older articles as part of the research for my post, and I noticed the title of this very article that was bashing great writing. However, I didn’t read it because of two reasons - I didn’t have time, but the most important one was that I was so appalled by it that I didn’t even have a desire to actually read her arguments, because no matter what she had to say, would not have convinced me that she’s right.

Now, that I read your reaction and Melissa’s, I’m glad that I didn’t waste my time on reading her bias on great writing and what matters on the Web.

I’m not saying that those who are not good at writing shouldn’t blog. I’m no Dorothy Parker myself. But at least we should all try our best at improving our writing and aiming to be good at it, be better than just average, not pat ourselves for doing such an amazing job at running a blog without having any adept writing skills.

I am not into rules. Lists aren’t always bad. The last list you did was good. It was a list, but it had some meat to it. I mean you could easily say my twitter post was very list-like. Or I often write lists within a sentence.

To summarize, the list point and even the point of the post, is that if you assume your audience can only handle ten barely interesting points than you can only handle ten points. You are the audience and the audience is you… or something wise like that. Therefore, I like to imagine a deeper, limitless audience so that I reach for that as well.

It was a good post and it deserved a link. No thanks necessary. But I will take it! I am needy like that.

I don’t know why you’re so hard on top ten lists. While there are maybe a few too many of them, I think they’re fun and entertaining. Everyone can use a little fun entertainment now and then, don’t you agree? Plus it’s nice to alternate between long written posts and brief lists. Anyway, I like them as long as they’re occasional and not overdone.

So there.