Tim Pickett
Editor
Email: tim@collectionstrust.org.uk

Human relationships depend on communication. Bad writing is a barrier to communication. When an organisation such as the Collections Trust tries to communicate with the public there is the potential for misunderstanding. Too often clarity and simplicity are overwhelmed by pompous words, long sentences and endless paragraphs.

Some people think that flowery language and complicated writing is a sign of intellectual strength. They are wrong. Some of our greatest communicators were - and are - passionate believers in the simplicity of the written word. Plain English must be the aim of all who work at the Collections Trust. It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool in good communications.

Therefore, my aspiration is to ensconce this penetrating and learned philosophy into the Collections Trust's mechanisms of work practices, so that democratic individual user-groups who interface with the Collections Trust's diverse and heterogeneous publicated materials, which are focused toward both the public and non-public domains, on-website and off-website, can attain a crispness of clarity that makes their idiosyncratic interaction as hospitable to their varied needs as possible (take my point!!).

When I am not out saving the planet from gobbledegook, I enjoy writing screenplays (my background being a BA (hons) in Creative Writing and Film Studies from the London Metropolitan University and an MA in Screenwriting from the London College of Communication). I also work with local filmmaking groups helping them to develop their film scripts.