It has been since the last day of February since I’ve posted here. Regular readers will note this as unusual: I usually post once a day, Monday through Friday.
Since coming back from my eleven day vacation in Costa Rica in February (171 pics here on Flickr), I’ve been fighting the return of the sinus infection I had in January, recurring in Costa Rica the first weekend, and then returning yet again after I got back in the United States. It finally got the best of me, draining me of most of my energy and only leaving enough to stay at work on my day job.
But, after a good visit to Dr. M, some kick-ass drugs, and a little bit of time this week, my energy is returning and I’m finally able to do my passion: writing. Especially writing for writers. What a great privilege.
Most of you do not know, but I have been writing for Pimp Your Work for the last six months or so. My last post was written two weeks ago and, through the magic of technology, is posting at the same time as this post here on Ten Keyboards. Pimp Your Work is a great business blog and part of the b5media network of blogs. After spending a fair amount of time in Costa Rica on vacation thinking through a lot of things in my life, I made the decision to stop writing for them.
It was a tough decision to make.
Pimp Your Work is a fast-growing blog with many more subscribers than I have here on Ten Keyboards. Being part of b5media, there are untold advantages that come along with being part of that network. Not to mention that their business approach is exactly what is needed in the blogosphere today and they have a great group of bloggers writing their posts. Most of all, I could do good things on Pimp Your Work. But I wasn’t sure I could do great things there. Good, it is said, is the enemy of great.
All of those advantages weighed against what I wanted to do with my personal blogs. My personal blogs, you see, are really about the books I want to write. Cube Rules, my business blog, is about Career Management for Cubicle Warriors, a subject that I have a lot of experience with in my career. There is a great need for developing the methodology to become a Cubicle Warrior.
With Ten Keyboards, there is a great need for someone to define, explain, and give positive reasons for a Writer to use Technology to promote their work. Technology has become the great new thing to help a writer have the right stuff to sell their work to publishers and continue to have conversations with their readers.
Very few are writing about it. Yet, my day job in technology, combined with my struggling writer need to be successful, offers the perfect combination to show how technology can help writers market their work.
It just needs to be written.
We’ll write about that here on this blog. And, with the time saved from Pimp Your Work, now start writing it as a book.
It should be a fun journey.
Scot
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