Sometimes I feel like I spin my wheels when I write promotional articles for work. I research, I write, and I feel like the writing is… junk.<\/p>\n
Only, then it gets approved by all parties needing to approve it, and only rarely do I have any significant changes to make. It’s at that point, when the approvals come back, that I can look at the article and say, “Y’know, this isn’t bad.” I need the distance; my initial reaction is too harsh. Always.<\/p>\n
Today was a different case. For a variety of reasons, some assignments I needed done yesterday<\/i> didn’t come through until this morning. So I had to write, write quickly, and not second-guess myself. Any feelings of junk would have to be set aside; I didn’t have the time for them.<\/p>\n
One product I had to write about…<\/p>\n
Well, I had fun with it.<\/p>\n
It’s about a product from an alternate history. So I wrote about it, as though I were writing from within<\/i> that alternate history, as if I were in that<\/i> world, writing about the product.<\/p>\n
It came out pretty neat.<\/p>\n
Oh, I don’t know if anyone will get<\/i> it. No one’s objected to it, certainly. It got approved. If anyone notices, I think the reaction will be, “Umm, there’s something… different about this. I can’t quite place my finger on it.”<\/p>\n
I<\/i> had fun with it. That’s really all that matters. To write something fun<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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