I have not been writing nightly, as planned or hoped for.
The 1st week went very well. Then, life rolled in more insistently. We get busy.We get preoccupied.
The ideas, however, kept flowing. No shortage of those.
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Day 6 of the Fab 45 & “We are not alone”
The small packet of purpose that is my newly declared daily writing project is layering on its benefits. Like a little pearl coat covering the irritant of responsibility there’s a kind of luster now around the hours I commit to writing at day’s end.
The need to rest my brain from the day just passed and for the 2 ahead dictates that I simply share with you a new writing experience I had today:
Road ahead: Fab 45-Day 5 finds the Intersections
Writing to you with something useful and interesting and perhaps even entertaining is on my mind a lot these days.
What have the past hundreds upon hundreds of blogs I’ve birthed into the world had in common? No matter the topic or the source of the publishing impetus, they were written with a specific teaching or marketing purpose in mind. I sketched an outline, usually with a clear objective. Sometimes I just went at it. I knew the pattern I taught my college level business writing students would kick in to bring my ideas to completion and then to publication:
- Planning 20% of time
- Writing 30% of time
- Refining/ Revising 45% of time
- Evaluating 5% of the time
Social media posts had that edge of spontaneity. They’re more often in the moment and often stimulated by the instant influence of others’ posts, or the news on the radio as I worked.
Today, Day 5 of the Fab 45 fuses the planned and the just popped up! I’ve decided to respond to something remarkable in my day as the jumping off point. I can’t help but write in some more valued by also sharing some archived wisdom and maybe some point form tips. Today: Intersections
Can we write ourselves healthy? Social? Successful? Fab 45-Day 4
Do you, as a writer or other creative get your inspiration from the outside world? Swaths of colour in your path. Sound vibrations familiar and foreign. Aromas. Snippets of conversation overheard repurposed first in your mind and then your studio?
Me too.
Unravel first, then (re)knit our writer’s knowledge to serve
After 34 years of writing professionally in many platforms, you’d think I’d know to expect and to manage the process and consequences of being (a) creative.
This week, I’m delightfully heartened by the sublime interview scenes and quotes in Art & Copy. This powerful film about advertising and inspiration, and directed by Doug Pray was released in 2009.
Fab 45’s Challenge day 2 recycles ideas, trims word waste
It’s clear from the 1st post in this Fab 45 daily blog writing challenge, that I’ve got a lot to share. But then, so do you. It’s the nature of the human condition to want to express ourselves. I do hope you’ll share your comments, too. Go ahead, do that in the space below. As … Read more
The blunder of micro blogging, only
Or, how I fell into the habit of hanging out for fun and profit on social media only and my call to fix that by taking on my Fab 45 Day Challenge …………….to Post (gulp) Daily!
What follows: Communication nugget wrapped in a practical context and then a personal story which is optional for you but I feel enriching
This 1st post undertakes my promise to myself to:
Profiles in Profit joins VBOT Breakfast Round Table
Wooo hoooo! I’m celebrating joining the Vancouver Board of Trade this spring and my first Round Table breakfast meeting on wondrous Wednesday May 21, 2014
VBOT has told us all to be ready to meet 30 or more, new and seasoned members, before office hours even begin! Very excited to hear what my co-participants do at the heart of British Columbia’s business community.
Post event UPDATE: Breakfast was yum. Orientation light & fun with some GREAT benefits to check out ASAP. I did indeed meet 30+ folks of the 100 or so in the room, as promised by VBOT before 8:45 a.m! Lots of energy. Great ideas. Like minded business women and men looking to support each other.
LOTS of other newbies. Wore my name tag for the first time, with pride, to have joined a commercial and also conscious community.
Kudos to the organizers, the membership reps in the room and the volunteer ambassadors!
My gift to mark the 1st of many tales to tell of the VBOT members and team is a chapter excerpt of work in progress on my upcoming book on accessing both the Fun & Profit of the Power of Storytelling @ Work.
2014 StorySpark Sessions begin at “VBA” Meet Up
2014 StorySpark Sessions.…….. Catch the first of the season with easy sign up at VBA Meet Up! Wooo hoooo! I’m speaking to an intimate and motivated group of Vancouver Business Alliance networkers on Thursday, February 20, 2014. Join us at Waves Coffee shop on Main at 10th. Great deal too! Meet and partake … Read more
Great marketing author and teacher ‘passes baton’
When I started out in my public relations and marketing career, I had no mentor – Not present near me, not in my field. I had Jay Levinson and his earliest work on Guerilla Marketing.
Today, we mark Jay’s passing, and I write of his impact on me, personally.
It was before the Internet and before I found the good marketing practices to match my own values in the crowd of communicators that did exist around me.
Now, my field is full of smarts and the very real science of influence and persuasion that I sought when I was developing myself as both a quality and an effective copywriter and marketing maven.
There were, however, book stores.. and there were libraries. These are still amongst my favourite places, in general.
And there was Jay Levinson. The Guerilla Marketer.
I bought his first shiney and white soft cover book on my lunch hour from my ‘day job.’ I was straight out of university and quickly become the in-house Sales Coordinator (with seniority!) at Canada’s flagship multi-function events facility in the late 1970s, the Winnipeg Convention Centre.