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Paul Holmes on well constructed writing

Paul Holmes comments on the National Standards and shows how he can write after looking at a blank screen.

Now I can feel fairly sure that in three or four hours this blank screen with be adorned with neat, well-spelled, well-punctuated words, phrases, sentences and nicely contained paragraphs. I hope there will be order.

He then goes on to say in the very next sentence:

They words might even say something with, I hope, minimal impediment of clumsy construction.

Clumsy construction, indeed.