Sometimes you benefit from an article you’ve worked on.
A year ago the article I edited was simply an article. None of its content promised me immediate application. But that was a year ago.
This past week, I found myself really needing the writer’s step-by-step article about how to replace a Model A Ford radiator.
Those areas where I’d taken special care to ensure clarity suddenly paid dividends. One step, though, seemed peripheral. So we skipped it. Later, as we hit a snag, we realized why the writer included that step.
Once, he’d likely skipped it — and misaligned the radiator. To spare others that problem, he included the extra advice.
That’s the beauty of articles directed toward application. Others facing a similar situation can gain from what the writer learned the hard way.
In other cases you may be crafting your articles from the perspective of a reporter. Instead of your own experience, you draw on that of others. In time, people will benefit from what you’ve written, maybe even yourself.
