What makes good writing?

Harold Pinter said in a speech that ‘one of the most interesting – and indeed acute – critical questions I’ve ever heard was when I was introduced to a young woman and her six-year-old son. The woman looked down at her son and said: “This man is a very good writer.” The little boy looked at me and then at his mother and said: “Can he do a W?”’

I’m not sure I can do a W any more, although I once knew how to. My handwriting is so appalling after years of neglect while I’ve been keying away at a computer keyboard. But still, I’ve been busy on three fronts: writing books, producing commercial copy and delivering feature articles.

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