The phrase 'work of making' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the efforts that go into creating something. For example, "It took hard work of making to finally complete the project."
He loves "the work of making art".
Elks shoulder the work of making a difference".
The work of making something go viral is largely invisible.
Two new and serious studies attempt the work of making Leonardo earthbound again.
So let the work of making feminism continue but let it do so in passionate conversation.
His lieutenants now began the hard work of making MySpace a profit engine.
All of the fun and hard work of making something new had been done," she says.
It resonates with the fraught work of making clandestine contacts with today's murderous extremists.
The hard work of making all those choices is left to the higher-ups.
"They are saying, let us do the work of making something aesthetically pleasing, or interesting," she said.
He's a dot-to-dot talker, happy for you to do the grunt work of making connections.
