I realize there are plenty of skilled writers on this planet, scribes whose words flow brilliantly and with great meaning and sometimes astonishing force. But in the corporate world, this talent is not terribly abundant, which creates a fabulous opportunity for people like me.
As a communications manager with a well-known hotel brand, my days involve a wide spectrum of tasks and projects, meetings and strategic plans. A great deal of my time, though, is spent writing, stringing words together in just the right way to explain a process, solve a problem, persuade, or otherwise inform and inspire.
Like any other job, corporate writing can occasionally be a drag, with its organizational complexities and political contours to navigate before arriving at a piece of compelling, and approved, text. But most of the time I absolutely love my work. It suits me, and I'm deeply grateful to make a good living at it.
An interviewer once asked novelist Aldous Huxley if the writing process was pleasant or painful for him. "Oh, it's not painful, though it is hard work. Writing is a very absorbing occupation and sometimes exhausting. But I've always considered myself very lucky to be able to make a living doing something I enjoy doing. So few people can."
Yes, so few people can. It's a fact not lost on Guitar Dad.
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Tommye
11/12/2009 12:55:32 am
And then there is Red Smith who said: There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
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