DISQUS

I vaguely remember a similar issue with the Red Cross when an earthquake hit San Francisco. The Red Cross put out TV advertisements saying they were accepting donations to give to those affected in the city. The mayor went to the Red Cross and asked when they were going to distribute the funds. He was told the money they (the Red Cross) had collected was going to be distributed to fund international Red Cross operations. I could be wrong about some of the details, but the Red Cross got a lot of money using deceptive tactics.

The story is good, but: But if a bunch of crazed superstrong people are after you, do you really want to go hide in a hole in the ground without an exit? If the hole doesn't have a latch to get in, doesn't that tell you that someone didn't put one there because they didn't want to go back? Why print "quarantine" on the inside of the hatch and not the outside? Once you see the word "quarantine", shouldn't that tell you there is probably a very good reason not to go in?

"No good deed goes unpunished" - Guess there is a reason for that old cliche.

Sorry to hear about what happened.

Gorman sounds like the typical elitist you find in every field of study. The elitist attitude can be summarized, in this instance as: "I am the expert in the written word and writing is not meant for amateurs."

Speaking of complex sentence structure, check out this excerpt from the article written by Gorman: "It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote." In my opinion, the sentence is well written, but has little meaning. (I was under the impression that reading involved interpretation on the part of the reader.)

I believe content is more important than complex sentence structure. There were some reasonably successful authors who did not use complex sentence structure, for example Hemingway.