Who of you believe your participation here hones your writing skills?

Yup

I believe that part of the reason why I am good at expressing myself and my feelings in words is that I talk about myself and my feelings in words often – on here, and via blogging.

I definitely talk gooder because of fluther.

@Gailcalled made me want to be better with my grammar skills. I didn’t want to disappoint her or have her correct me. I miss her.

Fluther helps develop writing skills as you write to be understood and the Mods and other jellies let you know pretty quickly if your writing is not clear. It also helps develop reading skills.

Yes.It Fluther helped me practice for a job interview. My usual panic disappeared and came out as confidence. I will find out before Sunday at 8pm if I got the job at McDonald’s.

@RedDeerGuy1 Congratulations!

@RedDeerGuy1 nice!
I have gotten help with writing a cover letter from a user here. I didn’t get the job, but I did turn in an awesome cover letter.

I turned off my spellcheck, yes it helps.

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The only reason why I can’t forget how to write a proper sentence in English is this site.

And I learn how to argue convincingly and avoid name calling through Fluther too.

But Mimi, we don’t want you to avoid name calling. I would be much happier to see you “improve” your name calling, and that requires practice.

That’s awesome Mimi

You bet and when I do screw up the flutter cops are all over me like bad cheese.

Absolutely, just as comic books improved my reading and vocabulary as a kid.

Best of luck @RedDeerGuy1!!

Absolutely! I have become a much more prolific and confident writer since I have been a member of Fluther. And that, in turn, has made me want to write more. : )

I’m more of an editor than a writer which, according to the above, makes my role here just about perfect!

Absolutely. I think about my responses more than if they were just for my eyes. I figure what I write represents me and there is a greater than zero chance it will be online for a long time.

Yes.

It does. I’ve apologized to the mods. I think they have to devote more time to me than others.
I’m not complaining, but it seems they look harder at my questions, than some that just stay posted regardless of grammer/punctuation. But they’re always polite about it.

Texting had me going in the wrong direction.

@MrGrimm888 reading these answers, I think @Stinley raises a very interesting point about the convergence of writing with editing. We’ve been conditioned since school to confuse good writing with good editing because we were penalized severely for editorial missteps. Though the discipline is rather onerous, the necessity for it prevails as essential to our lifelong adhesion to the “rules of the road”. But you have to wonder about how many people are shunted away from writing after having their hands slapped repeatedly for technical mistakes.

@MrGrimm888 you’ve improved a lot ;-)

But if you do see something that isn’t right, flag it.

I’m trying :)