‘SRJ: Perspectives on Masonic Writing’

    

If your favorite newsstand is sold out, click here to read the new issue of Scottish Rite Journal, the bimonthly periodical of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction.

It’s been a long time since I’ve perused a Journal, and this September-October issue deserves your attention for many reasons. Magpie readers would want to begin on Page 4, I think, where we find “Perspectives on Masonic Writing” by Chris Ruli. At this point, I just assume Chris has been cloned a few times, but here he is imparting advice from experience on how to organize information and craft it into prose.

This isn’t about the toil of research; it’s about the art in writing. His five points of authorship give you the secrets of creating a paper or article based on investigated facts.

If reluctance has kept you from contributing to your research lodge or grand lodge magazine or from squandering sixteen years on a blog, then absorb Ruli’s rules of writing.