Tempted to write in dialect phonetically?

Read this piece by Roy Peter Clark of Poynter first:

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=78&aid=144098

Tom Robbins at the Seattle PI

If you didn't catch the Seattle PI series involving collaboration with a dozen top Northwest writers, such as Robbins, here's a funny snippet from it:



And here's a link to the entire 2007 series:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/writers/