***Writing
Is Fun!***
by: Michael
Harrison
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, prepare an interview winning
resume’, market yourself and win the job at interviews,
plus other real life tips.
Anyway I enjoyed the writing process,
thought the book was good and sold a few copies. The effort
of writing 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 writing
a weekly newsletter I have realised that I do enjoy writing
and drawing on my experiences. So recently I have been thinking
of writing 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. The point of this article is to tell you what
I realised when I read my ‘masterpiece’.
I had been living in the corporate
world and the book was written in corporate style. Formal,
the grammar was convoluted, too many long words. It was
not easy to read and I did not like the style. The content
is excellent but I did not like how the book was written.
Bearing in mind when I originally
wrote it 15 years ago I read and re-read it in an effort
to do a good job. That I now do not like the writing 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 writing.
By writing for the web my style has
changed, hopefully to a more readable form because I still
like writing.
Tip: learn from the mistakes of others,
you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
About The Author
Michael Harrison is an author, publisher and business consultant
specialising in helping business owners and individuals
to realise and release the full potential of their situation.
He has helped many people to improve their business situations
and advised and supported individuals to embark on new directions
in their careers.
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