The copywriting I do for DotBrighton is the perfect writing gig for the world of 2011. As it is a voluntary, unpaid, restrictive, and unpublished role this might seem counterintuitive, so I’d like to explain why. It has a number of key things that are unexpectedly right with it.
With the ever growing interest in the weekly session posts I write for FlashBrighton, last night I compiled the best of them - those written since early February of 2009 - into a pdf and added to it to the writing page of this site. You can find it here.
When I am writing, I am constantly aware of a contract that exists between the reader and I. It goes like this:
It’s a simple contract but works well because it leaves both parties free to pursue their goals whilst putting the onus of quality on the other, thus ensuring that they are both playing at the height of their game; and it also opens both parties up to criticism but only to a degree that is fair, with each party regulating for him or herself what constitutes ‘fair’.