Social Aspects of Writing

June 27th, 2006

The ACRL blog has a post by Steven Bell, with a great quote:

“Perhaps Tony Schwartz nailed it when he said “writing is a social interaction”. In other words, authoring, even if you are writing solo, involves others. Less experienced writers may be intimidated about asking for help, but the presenters’ message was that your colleagues are often glad to provide help – and help can come in many forms.”

Ooh ooh! I love this. And, it’s exaclyt why Christie Hill and I asked fellow librarians to fill out our survey for our book and why we sought advice on the book planning, getting together the survey, and over all LBC methodologies. Nothing should be written in isolation. Who learns from doing that?

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