Jeannie Hill
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David Amerland:
Nice to get to know of your many publications. I would be happy to support you any time to need to hear from a faithful "follower". How do you manage to produce so much quality content?
David Amerland
Jeannie, seeing how I just got to reply to this you can begin to guess the "how". :) Really I need to be a little more switched on about more online places than I am at the moment. And, to get serious, on your question, I write the way you're taught not to. I put together ideas all the time and link each one with research, other people's thoughts, comments. Everything. Then, some of them become articles, some go nowhere and some become books and some of the ideas that started out as articles become books, case in point my latest one "The Sniper Mind" that took three years to complete and started out as an article: https://goo.gl/sVB51f.
Unlike the planned, orchestrated approach to writing that most writers go for I end up working in a Darwinistic, almost, way where what becomes what is determined by my assessment of time, impact and the value it can deliver. It is a little chaotic in that it forces me to juggle things in my head, so things that should fit in SEO have to compete with research and posts I am creating that are "marketing" and have a human element and then these have to find space with critical assessments of the impact of technology. It can be exhausting and I have had days when I had to force myself out of bed because the day seemed to be just so daunting. The upside is that this constant sense of discomfort forces me to look at everything with fresh eyes. It allows me to see overlapping connections and similarities in subjects that are not always obviously linked and it allows me to find the common drivers that motivate everything. I hope this answered your question :)
Unlike the planned, orchestrated approach to writing that most writers go for I end up working in a Darwinistic, almost, way where what becomes what is determined by my assessment of time, impact and the value it can deliver. It is a little chaotic in that it forces me to juggle things in my head, so things that should fit in SEO have to compete with research and posts I am creating that are "marketing" and have a human element and then these have to find space with critical assessments of the impact of technology. It can be exhausting and I have had days when I had to force myself out of bed because the day seemed to be just so daunting. The upside is that this constant sense of discomfort forces me to look at everything with fresh eyes. It allows me to see overlapping connections and similarities in subjects that are not always obviously linked and it allows me to find the common drivers that motivate everything. I hope this answered your question :)
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Sep 16, 2017 09:27AM · flag