This website is accelerating

New publishing systems and strategies mean a lot of great new content for SaveYourself.ca readers, coming soon. My goal is nothing less than to “finish” SaveYourself.ca over the next few years. This has come from the personal and entrepreneurial challenge of trying to figure out how to be a writer in the 21st Century:

• pick your turf
• write about it incessantly and charmingly
• distribute every imaginable techy way (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, podcasts, YouTube and much more)

My job is to make contacts with readers, and make every contact count. Every time I’m on someone’s radar, I want that person to think, “Oh, hey, it’s that guy who writes about pain problems and manual therapy. Again! My, but he’s persistent! And amusing!”

I am ready for this now. I am armed to the teeth with publishing technology and a savvy plan. I am ready to be a writer for the rest of my life.

Write once, publish everywhere

The biggest challenge was to create a way to “write once” but “publish everywhere.” That was hard.  <?php echo "I had to program stuff." ?>  I’ve been up to my eyeballs in technology for days now, applying elbow grease to the guts of SaveYourself.ca, scrambling to wrap my head around RSS feeds, content management systems and — worst of all — social media. Cue horror movie music!

It’s been kind of intense.

More good stuff for SaveYourself.ca readers

Another problem for the 1st Century writer is how to work on big projects (books!) while also producing a constant flow of interesting nuggets of content for the impatient internet (blogs!).

The solution? Blog the process. Publish the pieces.

From now on, basically all new content that I publish (not this) will be a chunk of some larger project. It may be as small as a beautiful phrase, or as large as a whole new chapter. This also means that you’re going to see more in this space: quite a lot more. As I polish the new systems over the next few weeks, the pace of new posts is really going to pick up, with both lots of small bite-sized items, and many more substantive chunks as well.