Do Talkers Make Better Writers?
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You know the type. The person who has something to say, even when there is nothing left to be said.
I know quite a few people like myself, articulate, well spoken but difficult to engage in conversation. I am prone to sit and listen, interjecting periodically, and only if I have something to add to a conversation. I am a bit like that when it comes to commenting on someone elses Blog. People would call me a lurker.
Then there are the type who just add a comment to let people “know they are there”. And there are still others that leave comments so long and wordy (is that really a word?) they could write their own post. I’m not really sure what the term for this type would be.
The question I put to you …
Do talkers make better writers? Or do you think the quiet studious type are better at it?
PS, please excuse the looks of this post, I am on a friends computer and seem to be having a few problems.
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Uh oh. Neither you nor I are good at talking. Could be quiet when we meet next week.
My opinion on your question - I don’t think you can generalize one way or the other. Both are skills that can be learned with practice.
(You must be having a busy day. I got an error message that you’ve exceeded your CPU quotient.)
Input by Rick Cockrum | May 1, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
Hey Rick,
Right on the talkers thing. When I first wrote this I was grinning, the question was actually faceious.
I know many like us that don’t say much but have a lot to offer. Then there are the type who have a lot to say that offer nothing at all.
Oh, and I haven’t had that many visitors for THAT error, I talked to them about that and we think it is one of the plugins that I have. I am going to close that one down, it is not very important anyway.
Input by Joe | May 1, 2007 @ 4:28 pm
Sorry to be completely off-topic here. I found you on the Z-list which went around a few months ago. Figured you might be interested in participating the Feed my Feed experiment.
Input by Bob | May 2, 2007 @ 10:00 am
I know exactly what you mean — I’m a listener and a writer, not necessarily a conversation starter.
To answer your question, I find that great talkers often are NOT great writers. It seems to do mostly with the thinking process — great talkers often don’t think about what they are going to say as long as quieter folks; it just comes naturally. Great writers think harder about what they are going to say and how it should be said.
Input by junger | May 2, 2007 @ 11:16 am
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