Thursday, June 2, 2011

Accidental Genius

I've been reading Mark Levy's book on freewriting to gain access to new and great ideas. I've decided to implement some of this type of writing into my daily life.

I'd like to create blogs about topics of interest specifically related to telling stories, creating value that can make you money - a topic I am very interested in.

I think that creating digital assets / digital content is a way to make some good money sitting at your computer. This type of content can include lots of things:

  1. writing
  2. videos
  3. photos
  4. digital images created in Photoshop or other digital imaging software
  5. digital illustration
  6. sound fx
  7. sound loos
  8. animation
  9. character design
  10. digital art
  11. icons
  12. and lots more.
I've always wanted to be in a position to sell assets like these by creating one or more a day and uploading them to sites that will sell them for me like istockphoto.com

One of the things I'd like to do with the freewriting / blogwriting is to create interesting essays on creativity, digital asset creation, storytelling, marketing, branding, futurism, science, religion...essentially anything I'm interested in and learn how to sell these in ideas in the form of digital assets like a kindle book, videos, websites, animations and just start telling my stories and making them interesting and funny enough for people to want to buy them.

I really want to make money on a regular basis and to help other people to break free of anything that might be holding them back, no matter their age, to make money and be creative and communicate and participative as well.

So for now, I'm going to add at least one blog post of free writing per day. I also intend to use this blog as a personal journal to help me to clear my head of negative thinking that might be holding me back.

Anchors: A Way - While I was reading Mark Levy's book, Mark talked about taking important "thought chunks" from my freewriting and categorizing them and otherwise making these ideas accessible at a future date. I thought it would be a good idea to use Delicious.com to create tagged links not only to pages, but to be able to create an anchor right next to a thought chunk title that was specifically created to be able to access specific paragraphs, sentences, words, ideas, images, etc...exactly where they sit on the page for ease of retrieval just by going back to the delicious page and choosing a tag or keyword. This can easily be done by editing the html and adding an anchor tag with an id. I would like see if there already is a program or website that allows bloggers or other kinds of content creators to create these anchors at the click of a button.

I also consider current buzzwords like "content" to be social anchors to current ideas. In other words, when the word "content" is bandied about people relate to it in a certain way and have a history with it even though the term is relatively current. By using these "social anchors" to direct people's minds you can then create your own hybrid or novel term which can lap frog over the old one and bring more attention to yourself or create a new coined term which will give you a kind of expert status.

In other words, use current jargon to create the next jargon - but you get credit for creating it.

What site might already be doing this?

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