The Writing Challenge

21 years. That's about how long I've been getting paid to put ideas to words. So, when John Cass and I discussed a great way to garner attention from some publishers this morning, I thought I should also get my writing self in gear a little bit more.

As someone with 21+ blogs (many of which are just SEO placeholders), I thought it would be a fun experiment to write a bunch of blog posts in a short period of time. It's nothing like NaNoWriMo - the National Novel Writing Month that takes place each November. No, it's more like a Twitter reporting gig where you need to live Tweet an event.

I remember one a few years back when Joselin Mane hired me to live tweet an event at Harvard. Great time and a lot of work. He was thrilled with the result and even more amazingly, I put out a scalding 265 Tweets in just over two hours. My followers that day were a little irked I think...and they should have used something like Muuter to help block my specific missives.

But I digress.

Where I'm at right now in this pursuit is on post number seven out of 11. Or maybe it's post eight out of 11. Whatever the case, I'm closer than I was an hour ago and I still have two hours left to accomplish this task.

Oh, that post about publishers and books and links to get people's attention...that will be up over at JeffCutler.com/jeff in a little while.

Thanks John!

Another May Post

I just posted on jeffcutler.blogspot.com about how I hadn't blogged since May on a few of my sites. This is another blog where the last post showed up in May.

These little words are just to bring my site current. Hopefully it works.

Happy New Year.

Naming

I think you should definitely take a look at this piece for details on what I'm about to share or at least discuss.

I've decided to expand my company presence to encompass JeffCutler.com, Jeff Cutler™ and Novel Ideas.

I think it gives me greater reach, solidifies my brand and limits confusion.

What are your thoughts?

Who is the real Novel Ideas' writer

I think I am. Here's the story...

Now it seems that there are two other Novel Ideas companies in the nation. I'm guessing the count is much higher, but when I opened my writing services firm on January 1, 1992 I didn't realize that the world would shrink so much as the Internet brought us together.

With my Novel Ideas writing site at Ideas2Words dot com - www.ideas2words.com - I attract a modest amount of business. But as you can guess, the reason my Novel Ideas site isn't at NovelIdeas.com is two-fold.

One - the name was taken. Pure and simple. Novel Ideas is a bookmark company in North Carolina. Good name. Fair product. I was too slow.

Two - NovelIdeas looks like Noveiideas or NoveLLdeas when written out. Having two of the same letter - unless you're google - in your domain name is bad news. So I haven't pursued it.

But now there's a writer marketing herself and her company - Novel Ideas - out in the western part of the United States.

What to do? Cease and desist? Nice letter asking her to give up the name? Combine forces and have two offices of Novel Ideas?

I don't know. Send me your suggestions.

Right now I'm on a writing sabbatical, but still have some billing through both Jeff Cutler and Novel Ideas. So the company isn't on hiatus and isn't going away.

It begs the question of intellectual property in this age of fast-moving people and concerns.

Keep reading...I'll let you know how it all turns out.