Being a librarian (I seem doomed to want to start all my posts this way) I believe in the power of the written word. I believe that the written word is good and necessary, and can't imagine changing it once it has been written down somewhere.
So imagine my consternation at the suggestion that I visit Wikipedia (which I have often done, no big deal) and edit one of the articles I found there (big deal - it's the written word! How could it possibly be changed by an ordinary someone like me?)
Fighting a small amount of panic (only small amount of panic, it's not open heart surgery, for God's sake) I found an article on my favourite movie, Moonstruck (the best movie of all time, how could anyone resist feisty Cher and passionate Nicholas Cage and obstreperous Vincent Gardenia and long-suffering Olympia Dukakis?) and immediately discovered two small grammatical errors in one of the first paragraphs.
Hesitantly I clicked on edit and fixed them both, thereby discovering that I may love the written word, but I love the written word even more when it is spelt correctly and in correct grammatical form. I was hooked! I went madly through the rest of the article, correcting grammar and sentence structure at breakneck speed, and adding a few details about the movie I thought should be included.
This was a very satisfying experience and one I just might repeat (and yes, I have thought that maybe I don't get out enough). After all, there's bound to be a few spelling mistakes in the Wikipedia article about my second favorite movie, Blade Runner (brooding Harrison Ford, sad Sean Young and crazy Darryl Hannah) that cannot remain uncorrected. I owe it to the written word.
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