Communication's important, but it's not what makes good writing.

Ya know Jeri, you have a hell of a roundhouse. My first instinct was to blather in protest when I read this. After all, the only measure of writing's success, I would have said, is what, how much and how well it communicates; communication is the whole burrito.

But I think you mean something else, far more subtle -- that if writing is well-crafterd, but does not come from the authentic own depths of the writer hisself, the writing can miss even if it seems polished as communication.

This is a very interesting point, assuming I have gathered it in right.

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