I was chatting with my Policy Adviser and Technical Facilitator for The Life Literary (aka my oldest son). We were chatting via email about this and that, family stuff as well as blog issues. We discussed how I might eventually increase The Life Literary‘s readership. He advised:
I would say that more than anything you begin to define the niche in which you want to operate. Try to define what the ultimate goal of this blog is. What is your elevator pitch? Who is your audience? What makes you different from other people in this field? But… at the moment it might be best for you just to focus on content ….
I commented on the first part of what he had written, then added:
I’m very content to keep adding content.
Wow! What a fantastic sentence and I didn’t even intend it. Complete serendipity! ConTENT to add CONtent. This word is a noun when the first syllable is accented and an adjective when the second. The first minutes after I recognized this were such fun. I almost laughed out loud. It was like finding a hundred dollar bill on the sidewalk. Sometimes word plays just happen in the context of everyday communicating, and I love it when they do.
(I’m adding this post post. My Tech Facilitor helped me solve another problem I was having. Here’s what I wrote to him:
I absolutely don’t mind a simple solution. Nice to have a tech facilitator who can cut to the quick, quick.
I know, Iknow, it should have been, “…cut to the quick quickly,” but I liked repeating the same word, quick, but with two different meanings.)
