Inspirational Brevity

by Robert L. Gisel

 Some while back a good friend of mine pointed out that he never had time to read my longer posts but that he would read the shorter ones. It was his consensus this was so for most of the office crowd. From this sooth and months of experimentation I decided to make some adjustments.

 Personally, I tend disfavor toward long posts in the RSS Feeds I subscribe to. Reading a too-long post I will generally be die-hard about it and finish it to end. The next time that author's post comes before me I will relegate it to the "to be read" filing, for some day when I have more time.

 Posts of a serious social impact do tend to be longer as these will by necessity get into more specific detail of the who, when and the where, to withstand challenges of the critics. The permalink makes it possible to circumvent this, letting other's articles give the nitty gritty for someone who asks for it.

 Writing screenplays I learned to be brief. Say it in the least words and let the action and visuals show the rest, so as to fit within 120 pages, the technical equivalent of 120 minutes. I decided scripts had to have less words and novels had to have more. This isn't necessarily the case.

 The last book I ever read of Michener I abandoned after a too-long historical discourse. Hugo used to do this but it was done effectively to embroil the emotions. Any writing should say it with less and prolong the discourse only to intensify the emotional impact and intellectual stimulation.

 It has become a fun and fulfilling exercise of mine to invent quotable quotes that exhibit depth of thinking in one or few sentences, as well composing stimulating posts that are one page or less. It's write it, then edit to say it with less words. Your audience is intelligent and suggestive meaning will be perceived out of skilled illustration.

 And don't forget this, an author knows. He writes from certainty. Where he knows that from is the fabric of the universe and one's passage through it. If it's real to you now no doubt you lived it before. So write it, and don't hold back.

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The Secret Formula for Overnight Success Launch

by Robert L. Gisel

 The unconventional is successful in the world of rebel writers, as Chris Gillebeau proves. You still have time to get on his mailing list to receive his free ebook The Secret Formula for Overnight Success, launching on Wednesday. I'm recommending it sight unseen, based on his previous works of insightful art of the unconventional.

 The keys to writing are, first off, to write, something I haven't been doing much of lately, giving way to distractions. A writer writes. Chris emulates this. Secondly, you have to say it like you mean it, in your own speak, and mean something you say.

 People one to the next are all individuals and are different, so when a different person says something from his heart it is unique. Excepting words spoken to reverberate the words spoken by an opinion leader, these are the creative ideas that involve readers. And embroil their thoughts, if you come to the table with any wisdom at all or simply point out something which is apart from the mainstream.

 My hat is off to the Rebels, to those who would strike a new stance and aim their sights in new directions, doing something remarkable, or adding a new view to the universe of viewpoints with the hopes of helping, improving and stimulating the minds of others.

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Who Would Write?

by Robert L. Gisel

Recently I have noticed some very active blogger discussions of blogging just for fun or for income, or both. It is actually quite amazing when you look at it, now with the advent of the Internet, how many would be writers there are now.

It is a creative art and perhaps the easiest one to engage in. If you can hold a conversation and work a keyboard, albeit with two fingers like me, then you can write.

It it an art form though and unless the ramifications of that are grasped one will find himself sooner or later with serious issues about out what one is doing. All art forms require the technical skills of the medium in order to communicate message. Without message it is just so much graffiti. Without skill one will not communicate.

In writing, that skill is craftsmanship. Without that, or real promise of it, you won't get an editor or producer and you won't sell your works. That would be fine if you only write just to communicate to friends or family or just for fun but not where you expect visitors to your blog or site and you want the traffic to grow and build interest or income. You can attract the traffic or drive it away.

Internet writing is still learning ground for me. Communication is not. On the Internet the whole trick is couched in how to find a communication line. There are a lot of blogs on blogging and all the ramifications of that bearing in the direction of the burning question, how to make money at it. I tend to be impatient with this. I want to go 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds.

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