Did you ever get a sudden spark of an idea, one you wanted to get out there as soon as possible?
But after giving it so much as a few seconds to brew, you’re no longer sure what that idea is, fully formed:
Is it a blog post? A broadcast email? A Facebook note? Just a twitter blurb? Or should it be a special report? A full blown newsletter? Maybe even a product?!
And before you know it, the idea has faded, you’ve moved on and the idea became nothing.
Sadly, I have to admit this happens to me from time to time. As much as I manage to put down in writing, at least an equal amount escapes me and it is a shame.
But the god thing is, I think I’ve found something that puts this dilemma to the rest.
It’s a GREAT online service called PEN.IO.
( And, yes… I too did wonder WHY they didn’t go for an .is domain… š )
It’s a deceptively simple service designed to let you do one thing very simply, quickly and elegantly: create and publish your writing online.
It doesn’t matter what it is; what language, how long, who it’s for… it just works.
You don’t even need to sign up, you just write up your page and assign a password only you know so nobody else gets to edit that page you just created.
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The finished page boasts great clean style, typography, pleasing colors and so on.
So you can just post that finished URL to the world at large OR… then take a deeper look at it and see if you want to develop it into something more.
In either case, at least you jotted your idea out, got it out to a lot of other people, and everybody benefits.
So what could you use PEN.IO pages for?
- Write up a chapter for your book you’ll never sit down to write from beginning to end
- Design a compelling offer for your product or service – without writing out a full sales page, order forms and whatnot
- Write an extended reply to a tweet you saw – otherwise you’d spend time and mental energy thinking what you should have said
- Something wrong with the world or in your industry? Get it out of your system! Write an open letter. It’s therapeutic and just might help other people too.
- Plan out your next big project and send it out to all the people involved.
As you can tell, this is a great way to side-step the looming threat of overwhelm and the resulting procrastination.
Just write it out, bit by bit by bit by bit. And before you know it, over the course of a few days or weeks you’ve created something larger, and you didn’t even notice!
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