Monday, October 3, 2016

My side job as a writer

Ana muses about the benefits of a vivid vocabulary and editing skills.

My son builds fine furniture. He's building a business website and tapped me to edit his marketing  information and image descriptions.
Decorative cabinet

Like writer and editor, we go back and forth. He sends a draft. I revise. He corrects. I check.
It helps that I sometimes find one word to replace four. Also that I've learned to spy when narrative in not in cause-and-effect order:  This has to happen before this can happen. 

The skill set of a novelist helps with promotional writing.
The wordsmithing is fun,
Doing it with motherly love is wonderful.

4 comments:

  1. Love the cabinet!
    And it's true that our writing skills can be adapted to many different situations.

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  2. What a beautiful cabinet.

    Writing is one of those life skills...everyone should know the basics. AND, everyone should have an editor to look over things they write for anything official. :)

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  3. Cabinet is beautiful and he's lucky to have you!

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