Can I write succinctly and let the power of my words and sentences transport the reader to where I want them to be and think what I want them to think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t think so. I find it very hard to turn a long piece of writing into something short, I am always wanting to explain further, to show yet one more example, to \u2026well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps I need to take a side course in editing my writing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like to flatter myself and think I write well, but I probably write in an old-fashioned style. For example, I still prefer \u2018whilst\u2019 to \u2018while\u2019, \u2018write\/post a blogpost\u2019 to \u2018write\/post a blog\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did the majority of my writing between my undergraduate degree (1994-1998), my work with one of the Murdoch web plays (1997-1999), my business communication writing (1997-2014), my writing of counselling material for my practice (2018-2020). And now this degree. That\u2019s a lot of writing, but how much of it is\/was any good? Apart from three business books that were edited by a professional, I\u2019ve never received any editing and instead taught myself how to write. Perhaps I\u2019ve written at the same amateur level for 25 years? I know that Kelly Noble at Glam Adelaide contracted me in to write articles and teach her team of writers how to write with passion (something I claimed on my website I could do). I lasted a month and thankfully I came down with Covid, followed by Long Covid, giving me an excuse not to return\u2014my articles read like they were written by a communication student and my teaching the other writers to write passionately failed miserably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, I see an editing course on the horizon\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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