Concisination

I could spend precious verbiage telling you what I've been doing of late, of the wrangling, the mental gymnastics, the creative push-and-shove, the battles to the death.

Instead, let me admit that "concisination" is not a word. "Concision," however, is. When I told a new team member at a client site that I was in the business of "concisinating" the other day, he said, "She's our copywriter and she's making up words! What have we done?!"

That was before I spelled "neck" with a k. At the start. (It came right after "knuckles" so I couldn't help myself.)

Fortunately the designer likes to write "words" by putting down the first couple of letters, but then trailing off the rest in a vague, you-know-what-I-mean-ish squiggle. I think I'm in good company here.