and activist
even
if you're illiterate!
You know those really great emails
you send folks, the ones where you
explain how it really is? The ones where you
confide your take on how to
raise children, how to do the things you know
how to do and do daily in your
business life. The stuff that makes you a uniquely
talented worker, parents,
friend?
The freshness of your words,
the intimacy of your thoughts and teachings are
so great. Why cant you turn that into an article
where you talk to and
instruct the reader, just that informal, generous
way?
If you only knew and valued
the knowledge at your fingertips, the
experience, the great teachings and research
that drips from your lips.
Problem is, there's nobody catching them with
a plate. Or a PC screen. That
info should definitely be captured!
So the discipline for you
IS to send a BCC copy of your dribbling back to
yourself, to your own email. And once it gets
back to you, hit SAVE and save
it to a file. Yes save it to "CONCEPT.txt or
raisekids.txt or whatever it
is. Give it a file name that summons up the memory
of what was in that file
so you can find it later.
Then, when you have a moment, make
it clean English, add commas, run it
through 'Spell checker', get it flowing. But
what's not gonna change-- what's sooo great
is how vernacular you wrote it. Nothing like
the stuffy Encyclopedia Britannic because that would put people OFF. Create
artful, simple proletariat scribblings. NOTHING used that a ten-year-old
couldn't understand. And hey, look on the bright side. If you write for
ten-year-olds you will quickly make them into savvy 20 yr. olds. Most people
won't read stuff that's written for PHD's. So all the ten year olds STAY
ten year olds and grow up to watch Wednesday night wrestling and American
Idol and FRIENDS.
Your teachings will:
a.) Reach the PEOPLE.
B.) turn them into activists,
c.) Give them a way to make a living,
d.) Teach them how to function, or teach them
life skills that you're more skillful at than they.
When all's said and done,
you didn't spend a whole lot more calories than
you did writing the damn first letter to your
pal, but now you have the
basis of an Internet article stored.
What to do with it then?
Long ago I noticed that the Net was full of sites
that handled information of that specific type,
or chat sites, lists, many
places where such sharings could end up being
public, hang in cyberspace
permanently, be found by people searching for
that kind of info and of use
to numerous people.
So, when inspiration strikes,
and I find myself sharing my deepest gleanings
with a pal, I keep a replica of those diamonds
in a directory that I created
on C: drive called "POSARTICL". (I also HAVE
POSBOOK DIRECTORY for ideas that could (with a half hr work,) become more
gargantuan. Mind you, the file I stash is just a flash, a snippet, no more
than an email to a pal wherein I spilled some good words. But it's a gem
of an idea. And why should my gems continually evaporate?
Remember the words of the Bible.
Thou shalt not spill thy seed upon the
ground. No siree. Save it to cache!