My Technical and Grant Writing Blog

Without organization there is only Chaos
Words that can haunt all of us Technical Writers. The older I get the more I like a good table of contents in any document I create.
Fiction, non-fiction, simple little thrown together ones just for myself. Put down the title of the document, then insert the table of contents and start with the organizing.

This mentality can apply to the files and organizing them as well. Start off with the file folder structure, lay it out with the overall document title, then you can make sub-folders that match up to the equivalents of the H1 headings, keeping the data to be input into the document in a similar order.

Content and Organization, continuing my thoughts and ruminations on this topic.
Content: This is so important. In my day job, while I still freelance for more editing gigs since I have just this month completed two of them and been compensated for one (getting work on the side is awesome and more is coming from one vendor) in my day job content is not a consideration. If you expand the idea of content as product or ideas to further your business then where I work at has no content creation in progress at all. Part of that issue is it being a non-profit funded by the Fed. There is no interest in innovation, diversification, expansion, it is very static and stasis oriented.

Organization: Even worse than the lack of Content is the lack of Organization.
The org charts are never up to date, no position descriptions, zero checks and balances as well as a mentality of, The Deadline is Midnight so lets submit at 11:55 PM. All the more I am going to rant on that in this post.
Later Days and Stranger Ways,
Tad

Content and Organization. Funny how much these two items impact my life on a day to day basis. Content being the use of creativity to write, create, design, draw, create music, soap, doing stuff to the house, etc. All those creative outlets I should indulge in more than just housework and playing PC Games, as enjoyable as they are, are not creating content in my life.
Organization, just seems to flow better the more organized, straight, neat, etc my life, house, work desk, etc all are. You hear it, you read it all the time, and finally at age 46 it is true for me. Took a while, but the pile method no longer functions for me as well as it used to. Things just work better in an overall sense, Creation telling me something there, and I am tired of ignoring it all.

So Content and Organization are the words of the last parts of this my 2nd life, as I sequence into my 3rd life.

Later Days and Stranger Ways,
Tad