ABSTRACT
After Six Drafts, massive editorial input, and significant moments of significant moments, the author have finally reached the end of the second edition of Writing Archaeology. Once again, the author has learned the hard way that no one learns to write all at once. This chapter explores that the skill of writing is no gift from God, but something acquired by years of practice and even then the author keep on learning. What really matters is how the author say things, and how thoroughly the author rewrite the prose to say something clearly and in a good, economical way. Improvement won't come unless one work at the writing, open theirself to criticism, and act upon it. One archaeologist has lost sight of distant horizons, of the great issues of our discipline. One needs to write for humanity, for civilization, for our friends and our enemies.
