Happy and Blue 2

As a Canadian I’m used to people being nice. We say “sorry” when the other person bumps into us. We let people cut in front of us in line without saying anything. Well not verbally anyways. We tend to give them our best being cross look. But we yield.

Canadians are nice.

But, when is being nice just annoying?

Being nice is annoying when we don’t mean it.

We really aren’t “sorry” when someone bumps into us in a mall or on the street. They make us mad. (more…)

Why does it matter? It’s not like the content between the major points is interesting anyways. To skim is to save valuable time. For something or other. Probably more skimming. It isn’t that it helps us learn anything. For the most part we just like to think that we understand fully what the author has written. Even though we are likely to have totally missed what the author is really saying.

Why does it matter? It’s not like what our friend or family member is saying is interesting anyways. If we think about something else while they talk. Not listening saves us valuable time. For something or other. Probably to listen to our own thoughts. It isn’t that it helps us learn anything. For the most part we just like to think that we are understanding what the friend or family member has said. Even though we don’t.

Why does it matter? It’s not like helping someone in need really makes a difference anyways. To help is to waste our valuable time. Which we need to learn about our life. It isn’t that helping others teaches us anything of value. For the most part we think if we help others when will we have time to get help with our problems. Which is the wrong way to think about helping.

So your question is:
Why does it matter? It not like……

Focus on getting people to guest post. With a big enough build up it doesn’t even matter if they are qualified or not. You look current and helpful and don’t have to work on it.

A good example of this may be:

Jim is a powerful brick builder and loud speaker. He is known for his innate ability to tear down the barriers between people. Please welcome Jim as talks about 10 barriers he has smashed for his clients. Learn from Jim how you can apply his principles to smash through your walls and into success..

With todays tendency to skim posts almost anyone can be a great guest post..

I have written over 300 stories that are for the most part family friendly. It’s enough for a book. Several short books actually.

The point is that we all write book loads of information every year. Several short books worth.

Writing Styles
My writing is simple. Most of the people I currently read would call it crap but because I had a bigger audience in the past I know there is a group interested in reading it.
I just create a character and a situation and let them lead me wherever they want to.

Technical articles seem hard to me. You have to research. And there are new information and new studies done all the time.

My stories are timeless. I only have to watch for jargon.
Actually, I recently looked at a few books that I read as a child and I still understand and enjoy them. Timeless..

Technical articles date quickly. So new ones have to be written just to replace old information.

If I were to market my stories there is a limited audience. And there are a mass of stories for children out there.

Technical writers also tend to have a limited market. If you write about making money you are competing with lots of other people who have written about it. Or if you write about how to use Twitter you are competing with lots of other people who are writing about how to use Twitter.

Why You Should Write an Ebook
There is a mass of everything out there.
If you don’t believe me just go to a grocery store and count the number of different kinds of boxes of cereal.

Or count the variations in automobile or bicycle models, clothing, food, housing, et.al.

The point I’m trying to make is there is room for everyone. There is room for you.

What Should I Do With My Ebook
If I were to package and market my stories to the right audience I could probably sell them. I may not ever get rich but who really knows.

The thing is that becoming rich wouldn’t really matter to me. Money is fleeting.
Being read by someone is forever.
Even longer if you are Shakespeare or Galileo..
Which you probably aren’t but who knows….maybe you just don’t know it yet…

If you have thought about doing an ebook then do it. If you don’t want to create an ebook do it anyways.
I don’t really think you have anything to lose.

I plan to do one of some of my stories in a few months. I’ll probably just give it away.

But, if you create one and charge for it there isn’t anything wrong with that either.

And if only a few people want what you produce does it really matter. Does Ford care if you buy a Focus or a Expedition. They make a sale either way.

You will have done it. It will sit on your site. Available for anyone who comes later.

And it will make writing the next one easier.

So the question for you is:

What is holding you back from creating your own ebook or book..
What do you feel you would have to lose in doing so.

Common wisdom on posting articles is to not write anything of significance on a weekend because no one is reading.

The supposed logic is that people who read have actual lives.

And in theory anyways, they use weekends to party, expand their minds,contemplate real life issues, do laundry, buy food and ponder running away.

Often logic is illogical. As is the case with this logic.

Most of us sit in front of our computers for most of the day.
And weekends are like the glory days of free time to go online.

We are really, just waiting for a brilliant pointless post from someone, anyone to fill our time.

Some people post on weekends because they realize that they can grab more attention if they do. Less competition equals less competition.

Some people like Nicholas from Site Sketch 101 and Keith from Business 3.0 actually post useful information.
Which is good. Because there is less noise to detract from said information on weekends.

Some others like Seth Godin and Ari Herzog post a useful post and a fun post on weekends. To catch both types of readers I suppose. Brilliant actually..

Others like Skye and Sage pose difficult questions on weekends. Perhaps to give themselves time to think of the answers. Perhaps because there is less noise on weekends..

I post on weekends because I have no real life.
It’s sad really, but I shop during the week and do my laundry mid week as well.
I even save pondering running away for Tuesdays.

So weekends for me are completely free to read and write.

Another bit of logic blown away in a few keystrokes, I suppose..