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I’ve always been obsessed with the structure of things.<\/p>\nI’ve always been obsessed with the structure of things.<\/p>\n
When I was younger and shoved into learning disability classes for dyslexia, something clicked: I saw the importance of being able to string words together.<\/p>\n
By becoming fixated on syntax — from the way letters went together to form words to how words went together to form sentences, paragraphs, and stories — I was able to overcome some of the negative effects of dyslexia.<\/p>\n
I found comfort in writing, even though it didn’t come easy.<\/p>\n
The first thing I ever wrote for publication was a comic book story for an independent publisher.<\/p>\n
I loved the structure of comic books (I always will). I loved how big a story could be, stretching out over years if you were lucky to keep going. But more than that, I loved how those big story lines were comprised of smaller story lines contained in individual issues. I loved how I had to think about page breaks and what happened on each page. I loved how I had to think about each panel and what went inside.<\/p>\n
Those panels were the building blocks that gave me the foundation to move on to other writing: screenplays, novels, and articles.<\/p>\n
When I started The Juggling Writer<\/em>, I decided to use WordPress<\/a> to manage the content I create. I’m very lucky to live in the Dallas\/Ft. Worth Metroplex<\/a> — where we have a great WordPress Meetup Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n My mind is not the most organized thing; WordPress helps me keep my online content organized. It helped me keep my podcast<\/a> organized as well.<\/p>\n When I started podcasting my first novel, Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em>, I noticed something: The Juggling Writer<\/em>, my LinkedIn profile<\/a>, and my personal site<\/a> all started seeing more traffic.<\/p>\n The Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> podcast gets several times the traffic of The Juggling Writer<\/em>, my LinkedIn profile, and my personal site combined! More than that, new people find the podcast every week and make their way through the 21 episodes. The growth of my podcast — a sequential story that keeps people coming back — steadily increases, and some of the listeners have spilled over to my other sites.<\/p>\n Seeing this made me think about sequential content online and how it’s worked for me. I noticed when I posted a week-long series on The Juggling Writer<\/em>, traffic during those weeks increased. I noticed when I started posting stories to my personal site that people moved from my About<\/em> page to my stories (and now on to some of the short stories I have on Amazon.com<\/a>). I even started thinking about the technical writing I do to pay the bills. The documentation I’ve written that people have thanked me for writing isn’t a white paper or a proposal — it’s been sequential writing (procedures) that helped them do something.<\/p>\nSequential Content<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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