Good writing

Contemporary writing accolades

The next accolade goes to Kevin Ritchie for his piece in the Pretoria News entitled Mediocrity isn't enough in which he reports on the bizarre incident of a commercial airliner being repaired with tin foil and duct tape.

As a sample, for you, of Ritchie's good writing style:

There wasn't a hole in the wing, it was actually a missing bit that holds the engine up, but don't worry, the manual says this kind of aircraft can fly without that part.

Who am I to doubt the manual?

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It's also theoretically okay to drive on the silly biscuit tyres car manufacturers provide as spares these days, but very few of us do.

Contemporary writing accolades

I've decided to create posts for contemporary writing which I encounter which seems to me to be an example of particularly good writing, for whatever reason. It is, of course, entirely subjective (me being the only judge of the writing's worth) and half-random in that if it doesn't cross my path, it won't get mentioned.