Monday, July 18, 2011

How's the New Process Working Out?

Thanks for asking.  I LOVE it.  It is, as you might remember, working on a single project each day I have time to write, instead of working on a specific thing on a specific day.  I was trying to get too much done at once and not getting enough done of anything.  What I was missing was the sense of accomplishment.  I didn't have enough time to accomplish anything.  I'm happy with this; I'm getting more done and I feel like I'm getting more done, which may be more important.  I know it takes two weeks to make a habit, but I'm liking this a lot.  Specifics?

The long project has a little tweaking left on the notes before it's ready for blocking, but by little, I mean little.  The basic structure is there, I'm just tweaking a few details.  I'm anticipating that should be done by the end of the month if not sooner.  Best of all:  I figured out the OS moment and it's a goody.  Can't wait to write it!

I finished section 3 and just started section 4 in the short project.  The planning is holding up pretty well and, when I finish section 4, I'll be half-done.  The length is looking pretty good, too, but I tend to not look seriously at that until revisions.  I want it to go faster (of course), but I'm happy with what I've done so far (before revisions).

Marketing is proving more of a challenge.  I need to do a little more research on what press releases sound like (and end like) before I can pronounce that done.  I have a lot of ideas, so many that I could do this full time.  Wednesday will be my next session and I'm going to price out find-it cards (where to find the book for those who ask me directly) at a couple of box stores and a local print shop.  I also have some ideas for ancillary advertising/promotional artwork for T-shirts and the like.  I'm sure those will end up in the Public Access file, or at least the sketches will.  I plan on selling these things eventually, so I'm not giving away the golden goose.  And then there's the paper copy to be set up in WordClay and all the other stuff I've got planned, including coupons and specific campaigns aimed at maybe schools?  We'll see.

So now I'm off to work on a KNN blog post.  What's it going to say?  What, you can't go here and find out for yourself?  :)

Thanks and TTFN!

1 comment:

  1. Glad it is working out for you, John. Sounds like you have a lot of pans in the fire.

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