Sunday, 24 October 2010

Interesting times become harder and harder

Hi all its late october so its been a while since my last post! As such here it is im going to tell it like it is!

In mid September I decided to mix work with one of the biggest sins a business owner a do "involve the wife" Yes you read that right "the wife" She had started to nag about getting involved in writing for the pre-pay-as-you-go.blog, so after weeks of ear ache I gave her a few tasks to do.

1) Reasearch a couple of article ideas id had

2) Write an article of at least 450 words

3) The article had to be 100% her own wording no copy and pasting allowed ( for obvious reasons)

4) I asked her to be expression full and if needed to be opnionated and funny.

That was just over 5 weeks ago and so far I have to say things havent quite worked out how we had both hoped. Yes she has upto this point produced at least 6 articles of 450 words all of which I have had to rewrite upto 35% of each of them.

So if that wasnt enough the articles have been wooden in a descriptive sense! Eventhough ive tried to get the message across that some form of personnality is needed to gain any interaction from my readers.

Ideas have also been a proble for the wife, as you can imagine mobile phone technology consists of thousands of parts with multiple technologies combined to create just one working handset. So you would imagine looking at it from that perspective coming up with an article idea is a relativly easy one.

So its the end of October and Id be better off writing for myself, so the problem is how am I going to tell the wife and get her to realise its nothing personnal!