Making Writing Shine Like a Diamond by Vihaan

Comparing the two, you can confidently say that the art of writing is like the art of diamond cutting: chipping away the unnecessary until your product glimmers like a diamond. 

Analyzing

When you start writing, you have to make a rough draft for just displaying your ideas, corresponding to when you mine a diamond in the rough. It’s rough, dirty, and dull. A diamond expert must examine the diamond to determine where to cut, just as a writer must read through and choose what to nick from their writing.

Marking

The quality of the diamond is also extremely important, with even the most minuscule imperfections heavily disvaluing the piece, which means the cutters must use utmost skill and precision to detect and eliminate the tiny spots. This correlates with how the quality of writing needs to be perfect. Writers must also eliminate small imperfections, such as grammatical mistakes or forgotten punctuation.

Sawing

Diamonds are the hardest material on Earth, with a score of 10 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, which means the only thing that can cut a diamond is another diamond. Diamond cutters use a copper blade coated in diamond dust. This connects to how writing is very hard to fix because of the mistakes hiding perfectly in plain sight. Writers must have a very keen eye to detect imperfections.

Blocking

Diamonds are priced based on how shiny and brilliant they are, so diamond cutters found that the more sides a diamond has, the shinier it is. During blocking, a diamond cutter has to increase the surface area of the diamond to make it shine. This corresponds to writing, as writers must mix up their word choice to make the writing finer, or, in the case of the diamond, more expensive.

Polishing

This is when many sides of the diamond are polished to perfection. It is also the final check-up on the diamond to make sure it’s reflecting the maximum amount of light possible, making the entire thing more vivid and dazzling. This coincides with writing, as it is crucial to find little mishaps and mistakes you might have missed. It’s the final step of writing before it is turned in or published.

When you put all of these reasons into consideration, we can clearly find that diamond cutters and authors aren’t that different after all.