You Can’t Write, Barefoot!

Hi Scott,
 
You really need to employ an editor for your writing! Your articles read like you dictate them, without any thought to sentence structure or punctuation. I don’t mean to be rude, it’s just that I’ve been an editor for 30 years and I’m a stickler for good writing!
 
Wendy
 
Hi Wendy,
 
Throughout my career I’ve had many professionals give me similar advice.
 
In fact, legend has it that a publisher turned down the original Barefoot Investor book because, and I quote:
 
“He writes in one-sentence paragraphs!?”
 
How infuriating. And they were right, of course.
 
Being a wordsmith, you’d know that whenever someone starts a sentence with “I don’t mean to be rude” … they’re about to be rude!
 
So, Wendy, I don’t mean to be rude, but The Barefoot Investor went on to become the bestselling book in Australian publishing history, one infuriating sentence at a time.  

Scott.