The Evolving Utility of Writing Advice in the Information Age

“Three Rules for Writing”

When I started writing 30+ years ago the internet was in its infancy. Blogs, so far as I knew, did not exist; social media was just over the horizon; print books, magazines, and newspapers still dominated the reading landscape; and the number of accessible experts, self-proclaimed and accredited, on any subject was relatively finite. It was in that environment that I started writing. My one nod to the tech world was that I transitioned from pencil and pad to word proces...