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I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me…

While I can only relate to this from my own standpoint I agree that as a writer we are not good at everything. I think Michael said it already in one of the comments.

For me, right now I’d have to be hard pressed to push out a full on website sales copy even though I have taken a copywriting class with one of the best in the industry. Does this make me a great copywriter.

No, I have to be honest and say that experience is the major factor here. We can be multi talented (as I like to believe I am) after all I am a woman But if we haven’t got sufficient experience in the given field, we would be hard pressed to be really good at it.

Anyway, my two cents (and I’m not Canadian)

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Or, another comparison, with dancing (something I’m more familiar with. ) I’m mostly a ballet dancer so I can do classical ballets, more modern pieces, dance as a soloist, in the ensemble, or do a pas de deux. But, I can’t do hip-hop for the life of me, which would be a completely different specialization. In the same way, I can dance jazz, ballroom, latin, modern, because they are all similar to ballet, perhaps in the same way that a food blogger might be able to write articles, restaurant reviews, or put together a cookbook, but might fail miserably if they tried to do web copy.

Did that make sense?

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Always joked that I was better at the novel than the short story.

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I’m glad that you have clients who care deeply about every word on their websites. The only ones like that I’ve ever come across were lawyers. However, I’ve been lucky enough to work with people who cared about what was going into a book because it was their name that would appear on the cover. Maybe the webmasters I’ve come across see their sites as ephemeral.

Congratulations again on choosing a great subject. I look forward to the second part.

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