fairysockmother

I love the term “wordsmith.” It implies a level of expertise and creativity that we, as writers, crave. It means never settling for less than the right word in every sentence. There is more to it than selecting the correct word; it is about nuances of meaning and the sibilance of consonants and vowels coming together at just the proper time. Being a wordsmith exacts the highest quality of work, tweaking each sentence until it sings, or moans, or sobs for mercy. Just as silversmiths heated, and hammered, and bent their material into objects that were not only useful but beautiful, we are called to give nothing less than our best in everything we write. Remember, that even when we are required to make mutliple revisions of the same manuscript, we are not only perfecting our work but our craft.