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Writing is Fun, It's Easy and it Can be Profitable......
Writing is fun. When I was establishing my consultants practice in 1990 I set about creating a book. The book was aimed at helping people to progress in their careers and shows how to assess yourself,
how to do a Resume
- an interview winning resume', market yourself and win the job at interviews, plus other real life tips.
Anyway I enjoyed the process, thought the book was good and sold a few copies. The effort of creating the book was not rewarded by the number of copies sold. I did not really have a low cost route to market. In building my web site and issuing a weekly newsletter I have realised that I do enjoy drawing on my experiences and setting them out for others. So recently I have been thinking of publishing another book for sale on the internet. Guess what? I got my original book out re-read it and I am editing it as my next internet publication. When complete, for interest I will let you have details. The point of this article is to tell you what I realised when I re-read my masterpiece. I had been living in the corporate world and the book was a reflection of corporate style. Formal, the grammar was convoluted and there were too many long words.(like convoluted)! It was not easy to read and I did not like it. The content is excellent but I did not like how the book was written. Bearing in mind that when I originally created the book 15 years ago I read and re-read it in an effort to do a good job the fact that I did not now like my style came as a shock. Which shows that our skills and perceptions are changing all of the time and no matter how good we think we are at any one thing we can always do better. If you've got anything that you created a while back it may be worth having another look at it. Your style may have changed and you may be able to improve it. My son writes for his living and he has experienced the same with some of his early pieces. By writing for the net my style has changed, hopefully to a more readable form because I still like the creation process. Tip learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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