Busy

     My wife came into my office this morning and asked me what I was doing just sitting in front of my computer starring at the screen.  “I’m busy writing my blog post for today!”  I thought: how dare she ask what I was doing when it was very painfully clear that I was working on my blog.  I was BUSY!

     She gave me a smile, lightly tapped me on the shoulder (you guys know that easy pat), and said as she then left the room: “I’d think if you were working on the blog post your fingers would be moving across the keyboard and words would be appearing on the blank page of the screen.”

     People!  It’s amazing to me how some people cannot understand the process you have to go through to get the thoughts collected in your mind and then make the words flow into the tips of your fingers so you can type them onto the blank page.

     This is a very tiring and tedious process.  It takes much time and effort to work yourself through this process.  This is especially true when the words do not automatically come to your mind just by sitting in front of the computer.    

     So I thought for a moment and then it came to me: Why don’t I put my process down on “paper” and post it as one of my blogs?  That is what I am going to do today.  Now you may read over this process and think: That’s NOT the way I would do it!  That’s fine.  You’re not writing this blog and these are not the steps that you take to put your process into reality.  I’m just going to tell you how I do it!  You can modify the process to fit your style any way you’d like.

1.       I think of my subject.  What am I going to write about?  This almost sounds too simple, but in all honesty you can’t just start putting words on a page and hope they turn into a brilliant article that you can use on your blog.  Although this is exactly how some people do it and it seems to work for them.  But it doesn’t work for me!  I have to know what I’m going to write about and the subject has to hit my mind with WOW!  I like that!

2.      Next I would have to think of HOW am I going to approach the subject.  There could be some reasons to simply look at a subject from a review type situation.  Or perhaps I would want to consider doing an update on current information available about that subject.  It could be that I only want to give my opinion of that particular topic.  There are many ways that a subject could be approached.  You must give this consideration before you begin to words on your page.

3.      Dependent upon the results of the first two points I may have to do some research as my next consideration.  The subject may not be very familiar to me or it might be that the way I want to approach the subject needs some factual information to substantiate the points that I will be including in my blog article.  And it is very possible that after I do some of this research I may decide this is NOT a topic that I want to write about anyway!

4.      After reviewing the research you must determine what material you will keep and use and what material will be “thrown away”.  Actually I often decide to keep all the material because there may be some that I could use in a future article for the blog.

5.      Putting all the information in order.  You have the take the information you have and then develop a logical, coherent development process so that it all makes sense.  If your reader comes to the end of your discussion and (scratching their head) says:  “What the heck is this all about?”  Or maybe some other words that have the same meaning.  Then you have not done the job you are suppose to be doing when writing your article.

6.      After these items comes the really hard part:  REVIEW – REVIEW – REVIEW!  You have gone through these things over and over within your mind.  It all makes sense to you!  Who wouldn’t want to read this brilliant piece of literature that you have produced!   You have to remember that those reading your blog post (or article wherever it is published) are seeing it for the FIRST time!  They didn’t go through all this process with you.  You have to “take them by the hand” as it were and lead them to the conclusion that you are trying to make with your written words.  That’s not always easy to do.  Sometimes I find it better to write the article or post and set it aside for a few days and then pick it up and read it fresh.  You may be surprised at the different opinion you have of your article by doing this.  But if you’ve followed your process (whatever works for you) then you will find success at the end of the article.

     This is just a brief summation of how I write the posts for my blog.  Like I said, this works for some and others have their own method.  The point is to have a procedure in place that works for you and make sure you follow that procedure each time to completion.

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Never be too busy to care for the

needs of those you love."