Producing What You Want To Produce

A common piece of advice
that is given to many writers
and to many other business builders
is
Write/produce what you want
to write/produce.

That advice is incomplete
because if we wrote/produced
what we wanted to write/produce,
we likely wouldn’t sell
that story/object/service.

Our readers/customers
aren’t usually ready for
our latest big idea.

They are often ready
for ONE of our big ideas, however.
Merely not the most recent one.

The complete piece of advice
is
Write/produce what you want
to write/produce
but ensure other people want it also.

Business builders usually have
quite a few products/services
they’re interested in offering.

I, for example,
have a list of over 100 story ideas
I would like to write
and ideas get added or drop off
that list all the time.

I pick story ideas (product ideas)
off that list
I think readers (customers) are interested
in buying.

I’m happy.
Readers (customers) are happy.
My business’ bank account is happy.

Produce what you want
to produce
but ensure other people
want that product/service also.

And keep a list
of product/service ideas
you’re interested
in exploring.

Refine Later

The first draft of my stories
consist of basic action,
dialogue, emotions.

I am vomiting the huge chunks
of the story
onto the page.

Once I do that,
I can evaluate
which of those big pieces
are worth saving.

THEN I refine the story,
smooth it out,
worry about word usage
and grammar
and all the detailed stuff.

It makes no sense
to refine a scene
I won’t be keeping.
That’s wasted time
and effort.

Developing other products
follows a similar process.

We figure out the big stuff
– our target market,
the aspect of the product
that appeals to them,
whether we’re creating,
for example,
a fruit punch
or a fruit cocktail.
We make
those types of huge decisions.

THEN we decide
if the package will be blue
or green.
THEN we determine
if it will be promoted
with Facebook ads
or Google ads.
THEN we refine
the product.

Wait to refine a product
until the big decisions
have been finalized.