Whats ironic, is your ability to write is excellent. The content you have posted here, is definitely worthy of a book, the hardest thing would be to put it all together somehow, but the content is well written, it flows and the reader is always interested. Thats one of the things I like about this forum you can apply yourself and keep these skills and abilities honed, its a great thing for anyone, I enjoy the heck out of it myself.
I've always been a stickler for good writing, more or less in business, it develops over time, it can be refined,until its the way you want it but I also think there is some natural ability to this. I had a boss or really a partner as I just could never really consider myself subordinate to him or the others. In the construction industry, there are times when you need to write a letter, put a contractor on notice and a myriad of similar things, usually technical, and when ever I wrote something it was always effective, and he would say, that is a gift you have, a lot of correspondence used to originate from my office. At times it was extremely effective, pi$$ing the recipient off. I had one project manager just livid because I busted them red handed allowing steel embedded in concrete and or mortar to freeze. These were structural connections for huge windows we were to install, and this put them on the spot, he insisted I retract or redact or nullify this correspondence, I said no way in h$ll, its on you if something fails, I'll tell you that piece of work tried to make my job miserable, made us hoist in these huge units down in behind pipe scaffold up 10 floors, it was to be removed prior to, but he did it out of spite and left it up. I brought a 250 ton crane in for another erecting sequence, he pushed to get it in earlier, and I did, but he never told his superintendent. He and I were at each others throat at 6am over it, I mean his guys and my guys barely holding us back, soon to realize what his boss did, set us up and he was a friend on that jobsite, it was regrettable that 2 grown men wanted to fight literally over a pile of sand in the way that would stop the masonry contractor for the day as my outriggers would be right where they work, no way around it at all. We talked later about it, it all stemmed from one carefully written, scathing notification letter.
The power of good writing is incredible, the impact of poor writing is easily detected and makes you look like a fool. A $70 million dollar job for the same university, the project manager could not write a complete sentence, I have a copy of a letter directed to me, just makes me laugh how someone gets a job like that. I had a lot of fun with this guy, nailed him 10K to change out one piece of glass on that job.
I think its like a guy like Jimi Hendrix, he could not read music, but sure and heck did some pioneering with his guitar, funny how things work sometimes.
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