My Writing Process

My Writing Process

Julia, THANKS again for a very timely message.

My writing process includes ALWAYS carrying paper and 2 pens with me. The second pen is in case one gives out. I jot down many notes day and night. Those notes go on an online mind mapping service called Comapping www.comapping.com I have many huge complex mind maps there from inspirations, researching, and brainstorming from over the years.

There comes times when it is right and ripe to move forward to put those in to messages that might become blog posts or articles.

I find that I work best when I just go with the flow for extended times. Then I go back to edit in minor ways. It is amusing to me that my subconscious is ALWAYS editing such works. There are moments when I am taking my daily walks or just as I fall asleep or as I wake up that an essential change of a word comes to me strongly. I make a note and the edit.

I understand what you mean about staying with the feminine too long. That is a nice, safe, and comfy place to collect and organize yet more tidbits. It is private. There is no other person to like or dislike it. The connections in my mind increase and get more dense.

BUT my purpose for writing is to serve others. SO someday I MUST move from the shaded drawing table into the light of day.

My fears of rejection and failure must be overcome with bold action steps.

Over the years I have invested untold numbers of hours into projects that I was SURE would be a big hit. YET the response was nearly zero. So I retreated back into my shell to make the next expression much better. Thus fueling my perfectionism and procrastination.

My brother sent me an audio book named Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson. That writer has an amazing proven track record of marketing several online businesses and teaching others his system called Clickfunnels https://www.clickfunnels.com/ . He shares ways to adapt proven concepts to attract those who will value what is offered and not open to crickets.

His marketing system will bring lots of new prospects to consider what is offered. Then it is up to me to deliver the goods. At 64 years old I have had many and various experiences. I have insights and wisdom that I wish some person had passed along to me decades ago. I do not lack for the possible quantity of what I have to offer. My challenge is to summarize and simplify the lessons.

There is an online tool that I encountered years ago and I used briefly. That tool is just right for me today. Webspiration www.webspiration.com offers the option to BOTH mind map AND outline. By just clicking a button these shift back and forth. SO the natural ways I think that are mind map orients will INSTANTLY become outlines. From those outlines I will make improvements. Plus there are ways to link to web pages and images. That outline becomes the skeleton of text documents and the highlights of those become slideshows. LONG ago I made screencast videos while using voice over of a slide show. Also I had diagrams to illustrate my lessons. Webspiration www.webspiration.com unlike most other mind map services allow diagrams where ALL the units are not linked together.

Therefore, THANKS to your blog post I will go ahead to START using  Webspiration www.webspiration.com TODAY.

Plus your blog post reminds me of a time 4 months ago when it was ripe for me to use a service named VoiceThread www.voicethread.com This will help me to gradually build a beta launch team. I balked several times to start that and things got messy. SO I intend to start using that service THIS week.

Finally, there is a free app that has helped me overcome some of my perfectionism. Previously I would labor over a document for hours. BUT before I shared a major document I asked a friend to edit it. He did a great job. But often he was busy. Mostly his edits were minor corrections about the uses of commas or verb tenses. Then I came on Grammarly https://app.grammarly.com/ It alerts me to grammar issues as I write. So I do not need to wait for my friend to find extra time for me.