E. Jean Simpson's Blog: A & J PEI Treasures/E Jean Simpson, BEd, BA, MA, page 19

Writing

Like most means of communication, writing can change over time and so can Authors who can change and develop with learning more about who they are and what makes them inspired and how they want to inspire. Being an author can mean different things to different people. It is always good to be flexible in your writing and in your books while still writing about something you love or know about.

The one thing I find is that there are many books out there on writing and publishing your books. They often suggest a whole variety of things you should do. Often there is money needed to do a lot of those things. That has gotten me thinking about the whole process and how it is different and what things can be done if one has a limited budget. This has given me a whole new perspective.

Of course, this doesn't mean that the how to get your book published and how to sell books are wrong and if you know why you are doing it, some of the suggestions can be truly inspired. If you have the money to follow what is suggested, I'm sure they would be well worth following. However, I have seen some jump from one sort of thing to another and another and spend a lot of time to try to find a niche that fits for them and it takes a lot of wasted time. It ends up with a lot of different all over the place projects. This is something that you want to avoid doing a whole lot of.

Just remember when reading a book...it shows only one person's advice and they try to cover as many topics as they can. They may or may not have found the topic extremely useful and went on to something else but cold see merit in it for another person. Sometimes it is a matter of picking and choosing what they can or want to do. So, when reading these books, you should not try to do all the things they suggest in the space of a month. First, you'll be overwhelmed as they didn't come up with these wonderful ideas in one day or a month or a week...often it took them years to develop. Their work was a steady and consistent progression. They knew why they were doing a certain thing.

So with that understanding, read the books, choose what you want to start with. You can always add. Trying to do everything at once will only overwhelm you and potentially set you up to look like you're bouncing from thing to thing and set you up to feel inadequate.

Not everyone will agree with this...but I have seen some go through a variety of tasks and things and a lot of it changed or they picked up different levels of an area. It can be confusing for potential followers. In my opinion and I'm sure many will disagree, stability and consistency are very important in developing your personal brand. A steady progression will get you further than an all or nothing approach. If you write a blog, maintain it regularly....whether it be once a week or twice and so on. If you run a FB page, add regularly. Make sure there is some activity on the pages you run. It gives people something new to view or to check.

So, remember, it's always good to look at things and be realistically unrealistic. You can't do everything, but pick what you can do consistently and make sure it is quite consistent and manageable and add only that which seems useful to add and know why you are doing it.

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Published on June 20, 2020 16:38 • Tags: e-jean-simpson-a-j-pei-treasures

Flowers

I'm always fascinated by the flowers...so many sizes, colors, shapes and no one is less beautiful than another and people might be more attracted to some types than others, but still can appreciate the beauty and perfection that is in each flower. Each one is special and different. I think often people could learn a lot from flowers. One of my favourite subjects is flowers. Even within each type of flower, there are differences....some are perfectly shaped, others are shaped differently from others. Each one is precious and special in their own way. No one points out these differences but just accept them as natural to the flower.

I wonder how the world would change if we saw people the same way as we see flowers. It's just something I think about sometimes.

I highly recommend that people be realistically unrealistic. More would be accomplished if everyone understood that we are like flowers, each special and unique in our own way. I would never have gotten any books done if I said, well, I don't have any budget to do them. So, why bother. Bother because you can, bother because there is something worth doing. Bother because everyone should be allowed to bloom. Isn't it interesting that people accept flower differences, but not differences in people?

Bet you thought it was just about flowers at first....then it became more. That's one of the things about life. At first it looks like it's one thing and then sometimes it becomes more. So, be realistically unrealistic. Make the world what it should be!

If you love flowers, you might want to check out:
https://books2read.com/Floral-Photogr... or even https://books2read.com/Rocky-Mountain... which has a section with flowers.

Thanks for reading my blog!

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Published on June 13, 2020 14:12 • Tags: e-jean-simpson-a-j-pei-treasures

Advice

Whenever someone takes on a project...such as writing a book, there are some that will laugh. Almost any enterprise that people will try to take on that is new, there will be those who laugh or discourage it. My advice for authors, in fact for anyone, is that you should not ever let that stop you from doing something positive and legal that you love. If, like me, you love photographs, flowers, wildlife, nature in all forms, then do it. If you love writing do it. If you put out a book and it is not bought right away, don't just give up. You did something you believe in. If you believe in something, then follow it in your daily life. If nothing else, it is something positive that you do. If that is a blog, a web page or anything else that isn't full of negativity and false information, then you are moving ahead. So, let people laugh...you don't have to pay attention to them and you don't have to accept their view of success or failure. Just keep moving ahead in a positive direction. Eventually things will come together in some way. Just being realistically unrealistic. Happy today!