Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 8:43:55 GMT
It's actually not the first book I've written, although so far none of the ones I've written have ever been published, except for two as free ebooks. Checking my file folder, I found that I had written 7: A short novel in diary form, (written in 4 days in November 1994) An erotic book to illustrate, my version of the Kama Sutra (2005) A book on character design and comics techniques (2006-2008) A Beginner's Guide to WordPress, published in pdf (2007) A Book of Macabre Poems (2008) A Book on Creating and Managing Your Blog (2008, fully revised in 2012) A rewritten and expanded guide to WordPress, published in pdf (2009) Of all these, the only one that satisfied me was the second, but I never decide to do the illustrations. And this has been going on since 2005. Today, however, I want to talk about the eighth, the one that I have appreciated the most so far.
A dazzling idea When inspiration is everything It was August 15, 2014 and I was going away to spend a couple of weeks at my family's country house when, as usual, my mind started to wander. I don't remember what I was thinking, in an hour of travel so many thoughts overlapped and mixed. However, I remember that at a certain point a book I had read a few months earlier appeared in my head. It was a book on marketing that I really liked and that I browsed through every now and then. I found the authors' idea truly brilliant. The fantastic combination of Gianni Rodari did the rest. I asked myself: what if I applied this idea to blogging? Inspiration was born and I liked that idea more and more. A strong determination When the stimulus helps you In my opinion it was an original idea. Ok, someone before me had applied it to another sector, but no one to blogging. And, above all, a completely different book would have been born from what the market always offers. It wasn't your typical blogging book.
Many years ago I wrote a book on how to create and manage a blog, a manuscript that underwent two or three revisions before being sent to a publisher, who first said yes and then took it all back. But this new book was different, it approached the question from another point of view. Indeed, from many other points of view. I therefore realized that I was more determined to write it than I had been with the first one, which to tell the truth had never convinced me in terms of language or approach to the subject. A detailed project When the organization pays If for a novel you need to prepare a schedule, so as not to get lost in the narrative, for a sort of manual - to be honest I don't know whether to classify it among manuals or among essays - it is best to prepare a real project. So I took the usual sheet of recycled paper – in that case the back of a page from an old calendar – and started jotting down ideas. That was a first draft of the book, totally superseded by the final one. But it helped clarify my ideas.
A dazzling idea When inspiration is everything It was August 15, 2014 and I was going away to spend a couple of weeks at my family's country house when, as usual, my mind started to wander. I don't remember what I was thinking, in an hour of travel so many thoughts overlapped and mixed. However, I remember that at a certain point a book I had read a few months earlier appeared in my head. It was a book on marketing that I really liked and that I browsed through every now and then. I found the authors' idea truly brilliant. The fantastic combination of Gianni Rodari did the rest. I asked myself: what if I applied this idea to blogging? Inspiration was born and I liked that idea more and more. A strong determination When the stimulus helps you In my opinion it was an original idea. Ok, someone before me had applied it to another sector, but no one to blogging. And, above all, a completely different book would have been born from what the market always offers. It wasn't your typical blogging book.
Many years ago I wrote a book on how to create and manage a blog, a manuscript that underwent two or three revisions before being sent to a publisher, who first said yes and then took it all back. But this new book was different, it approached the question from another point of view. Indeed, from many other points of view. I therefore realized that I was more determined to write it than I had been with the first one, which to tell the truth had never convinced me in terms of language or approach to the subject. A detailed project When the organization pays If for a novel you need to prepare a schedule, so as not to get lost in the narrative, for a sort of manual - to be honest I don't know whether to classify it among manuals or among essays - it is best to prepare a real project. So I took the usual sheet of recycled paper – in that case the back of a page from an old calendar – and started jotting down ideas. That was a first draft of the book, totally superseded by the final one. But it helped clarify my ideas.