Since I was born in the era where children should be seen and not heard, I have never been a chatter box. My creative juices tend more to writing than speaking. I can teach well but it’s not my normal bent. We decided to put an ad for our One Healthy Life business in the “Moonlighter” – a publication that services several nearby towns and counties. I was asked if I would like to write an article with each ad. My Grandfather, Clifford Shipton, worked at Harvard University researching and writing about the early graduates and what became of their lives after college. Volumes of hardcover books. During the years of the Vietnam war, my Father, Nord Davis was a political writer exposing governmental and media corruption - an avid Patriot, member of the John Birch Society, and ultra conservative in a very liberal town and state. He was praised by many with a large following of like-minded people, and unbelievably villainized by others with threats and slander. I did not like his writings as they were very angry, but I had to admire his tenaciousness for the truth and skillful writings. It was a hard time, but it made me strong and though I made errors I regret, God was tremendously close, faithful, and personal especially in my senior year and thereafter. I also have a Granddaughter, Midori Barrett, who at 13 wrote her first book, a historical novel, currently being edited and soon published.
All this to say I like the research being careful to be accurate. Mostly I wrote about ESSENTIAL OILS – THEN & NOW. About 180 articles over the years. The challenge (I also enjoyed) was to cram a large amount of material into just 500 words. Thankfully, my computer has a word counter. If an English professor or scholar were to evaluate my writing, they would be appalled at my grammar/ wordsmithing. I learned be concise with dashes, hyphens, compounding words, eliminating small connecting words, twisting around sentences getting the meaning across while eliminating a word - for example, here I used “getting,” instead if “so I could get”. I undoubtedly mixed tenses. I used the thesaurus a lot.
When the Moonlighter went out of business due to the effects of Covid-19, I decided it was time for me to be more computer literate and progress to writing blogs. There you have it. I hope you like it.
Joanna
All this to say I like the research being careful to be accurate. Mostly I wrote about ESSENTIAL OILS – THEN & NOW. About 180 articles over the years. The challenge (I also enjoyed) was to cram a large amount of material into just 500 words. Thankfully, my computer has a word counter. If an English professor or scholar were to evaluate my writing, they would be appalled at my grammar/ wordsmithing. I learned be concise with dashes, hyphens, compounding words, eliminating small connecting words, twisting around sentences getting the meaning across while eliminating a word - for example, here I used “getting,” instead if “so I could get”. I undoubtedly mixed tenses. I used the thesaurus a lot.
When the Moonlighter went out of business due to the effects of Covid-19, I decided it was time for me to be more computer literate and progress to writing blogs. There you have it. I hope you like it.
Joanna