When You Know How, Then Teach
When I spot a headline here, asking, why do amateur writers do this … and show how dumb those newby writers are, by showing them up, I cringe …
It’s so much easier, once you know how, to talk about those who haven’t learned how, just yet. They may be ignoring the fact that English is their first language so writing in English is easy for them, while ignoring the fact that newby writer may have several languages they are fluent in, but are new to the English language.
Learning new thing is difficult. but with a good teacher, things can become easier to do. Instead of deriding lack of skills in new writers, how about helping them out, teaching them, rather than belittling them and their efforts!
To teach others how to do something you love, and to do it well, means there will be more people out there, producing better examples of that thing you love. And surely such teaching is a far better thing for the world than nasty name-calling!
