Need help with discriptive writing.
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Hi,
Wondering if anybody could help me with some descriptive writing. I want to sell one my rocking chairs. I’m thinking of putting it up on Etsy because I don’t have time to put it any galleries. I need the money for travelling but I’ve written a description but I don’t think it sounds very good. Writings not my best point especially when trying to be persuasive. I just keep listing facts out. If I posted here would anybody be able to help me with this?
Joe
I’d be happy to try for you. I do not think there is too much difference between our ‘English'(lol) but I m sure there may be some descriptive keywords that might need to be localized. By way of reference, in my current line of work one of my responsibilities is to create technically sound emails that are designed to sell product to the oil and gas market, both pro-actively and re-actively. I would be happy to give it my best effort. What type of timeframe are you looking at?
BrianCheers Brian, your help is appreciated. I would like to get it up on the website within the next week really. But I’m not leaving untill the end of July so theres no rush. It’s just the sooner it’s up there the more time there is for it to hopefully sell.
I wrote this earlyer “This beautiful rocking chair is made from materials sourced from the country. The legs are English kiln dried oak to ensure that the chair is stable a sturdy. The side rails are made from salvaged pine from pallet wood, as well as beach branch-wood that I have collected on walks and has been kiln dried. The back of the chair is made from Black bamboo and there is a rush work seat.”
I’m just really not very creative when it come’s to writing. I Don’t know how to start a sentance without “the”. I’ve attached a photo as well so you can see what it is.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.Good start – couple questions, what ‘country’ for the materials, meaning ‘UK’ or ‘the’ country meaning rural / local areas?
Do you do kiln drying or that is just what was used? And did you also do the rush seat yourself?
Just trying to get an idea as to how to create a bond between your target audience and this piece which they will learn they cannot live without!!! I will look with more detail on your website too, to get a better sense of who you are. I will throw in my 2 cents before the week is up.All of the materials apart from the the rush work are from Herefordshire, which is the county I lived in while making the chair at university. I brought the kiln dried oak from whitney saw mill and they also kindly kiln dried the Beach branch-wood for me. I didn’t do the rush work myself the Former Glory Seat Weaving Company to do this for me. They are based in Dorset so this is the only part made outside of Herefordshire but still in the UK. The black bamboo is from a friends back garden who had some growing. While making the rocking chair I realised that one off them had a slight defect, a airgun pellet was embedded right in the middle of one. I decided to keep it in there because i thought it was interesting and gave a little story to where the materials had come from. Obvously someone must have been shooting into a bamboo bush for whatever reason. I used some exoxy to stenghen it. I finished the whole chair with oil but I can’t remember what kind, I reckon probably Danish oil. The Bamboo was finished with Shellac.
http://www.whitneysawmills.co.uk/environmentalpolicy.html
I don’t mind helping you out on this front. I can have a look at what it is I think you might be after and send some ideas to you. You can take them or leave them as you please.
I would say, however, that you don’t necessarily have to approach this as you would say, copy-writing an ad for a car, or a chocolate bar etc. I would think people will like your products from good quality pictures/photo’s, so the descriptive part, although necessary, doesn’t have to be presented in a list form. Just make it easy and enjoyable to read.
Any input you have Franco would be great. I understand where your coming from, thats why I wanted some help. I do want it to be enjoyable to read. Brian has sent me something I’m very happy with put I would still like to see what you can do as well if thats okay.
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