How do you come up with something every week?
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I get asked that question frequently. People ask me all the time how I come up with a column each week. Let me tell you, it’s not always easy.
There are times I just want to do this…
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…and say done.
Then there are those special weeks when something falls into my lap and it takes literally 10 minutes to write a column.
I actually love writing more about positive and funny topics rather than serious. I try to put a lot of thought into my more serious columns, which takes considerable time. In case you are not aware, I basically run three companies now, so time is not a luxury I have anymore.
Years back, I had written numerous humorous columns one year. My father, Max, was still publisher at that time and he talked me into entering my columns in the Georgia Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. I entered a number of my humorous columns, some pretty dang good ones in my opinion, and I felt confident that I should place that year. I mean they made me laugh when I read them. Surely they would make the judges laugh too.
I had only written a handful of serious columns that year. I think the minimum amount of serious columns required, to be entered that year, was three and that may have been all I had. Dad also made me enter those as well. I did it kicking and screaming the entire time; I felt they were not very strong entries.
Talk about humor. The judges from another state must have had a sense of humor themselves that year. I won the serious column division and didn’t even place in the humorous division. Dad and I always shared a laugh over that year.
My wife, Amy, gets really nervous on the weeks I have problems coming up with a topic. She thinks I am going to share too much about our personal lives. I warn her not to read my column those weeks or just don’t tell her. Many times, someone will read the column before she does and will call her or will see her in public and say something. Coco and Bear do not like sharing room in the doghouse, however, I find myself in it with them at times.
Again, there are weeks when it is very easy to come up with an opinion and then there are the tough weeks. Believe it or not, this week’s was actually kind of easy and fun. Until next time…
