If you're like me, you've got a lot of good ideas banging around in your head, but not enough time to fully explore them.
One of my goals for this year was to try to address that by using this blog as a pre-write or draft for a topic I might want to dive deeper into at some point. It's been pretty effective. There are fewer topics languishing on my to-do list and I've discovered that some of the subjects don't have as much there there as I initially thought.
As a result, I've developed blog posts into white papers, presentations and webinars, pitches, business development materials and even articles. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't have happened so quickly had I not test-driven the topics here.
What tactic do you have to capturing those good ideas and sussing them out?
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Margot, I too, am using my blog as a draft to “test my ideas” for a book that I’d like to self-publish next year. My posts cover lessons that I “test out on” my students to help them become better readers and better writers. After next Spring, I’ll take a look at all of the content I’ve added to my blog and begin selecting the best work I’ve written. From there, I’ll chunk it together in chapters by similar topics/ideas and cut the rest out. I can already tell that I’m going to cut at least 15-20% of what I’ve written because it simply doesn’t fit with the big idea for my book that I have lingering in my head. (If I could figure out a way to cut my posts down below 1,000 words/post I’d really gain some ground!)