Richard Carter

Get a taste my writing here. You also should read my thoughts, judge the books I read and my criminal record.

But what I’ll share with you right now is my suspicion of highfalutin talk and babble about the power and wonder of stories.

I’m not in the business of fairytales.

Some of the subject matter I’m asked to write is boring and technically complex. Try weaving a story around utility computing, programming language, undersea cables, and unified communication. This stuff creaks under the weight of hardcore facts and language more inflated than the Zimbabwean dollar.

But I get the job done.

I write and rewrite. I fuss over verbs, stiffen arguments and give key words their space.

And just like US journalist Joseph “A. J.” Liebling said: I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.