{"id":16912,"date":"2024-10-04T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=16912"},"modified":"2024-10-04T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:06:16","slug":"how-to-turn-chaotic-thoughts-when-writing-into-a-cohesive-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-turn-chaotic-thoughts-when-writing-into-a-cohesive-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"How to turn chaotic thoughts when writing into a cohesive narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Email Players subscriber asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cHere&#8217;s a thought that popped into my mind. You seem to have an uncanny ability to link a story\/metaphor\/comment anything that comes to you, with the offer you sell daily. And it doesn&#8217;t even get repetitive. Every email is unique. Every email delights in a new way.So, my question today is&#8230; how do you do it? Connect two different concepts into a cohesive narrative &#8211; i don&#8217;t even know what to call it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Survey says:<\/p>\n<p>Writing an email every single day moves mountains and answers all questions.<\/p>\n<p>I preach this, as it was preached to me by the great Matt Furey (High King of email, without whose teachings God-only-knows what lowly kind of existence I\u2019d be eeking out online\u2026), even as I do my part to preach to others as often as possible, and demonstrate each and every day of the week, and sometimes multiple times per day in some weeks.<\/p>\n<p>That is it.<\/p>\n<p>That is the entire secret.<\/p>\n<p>Without writing daily emails for the past 16 years I probably never would have written the nine novels in my Enoch Wars series with it\u2019s many World-Building complexities, interconnections, and storylines spanning thousands of years\u2026 with two other series of novels cooking up in my psyche as I type this. Without writing daily emails I\u2019d never have written all the non-fiction books I\u2019ve done. Without daily emails I never would be able to pump out sales copy as quickly as I am able to. Without daily emails I would not have gotten even 5% probably of the ideas generated as a result of writing each day for the 100\u2019s of affiliate and other campaigns I\u2019ve done over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Without writing daily emails I\u2019d go mad at this point.<\/p>\n<p>I have to do it, or my brain feels like my belly would going a day without eating:<\/p>\n<p>Emptiness.<\/p>\n<p>My trolls would argue my head is already empty, but be that as it may.<\/p>\n<p>So writing is the answer. Writing begets writing, which begets ideas, which begets money. Do enough of it and turning chaotic thoughts into a cohesive narrative is routine. Nothing you even have think about, much less worry about, in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just\u2026 automatic.<\/p>\n<p>So that is my answer.<\/p>\n<p>More about the paid Email Players newsletter here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Email Players subscriber asks: \u201cHere&#8217;s a thought that popped into my mind. You seem to have an uncanny ability to link a story\/metaphor\/comment anything that comes to you, with the offer you sell daily. And it doesn&#8217;t even get repetitive. Every email is unique. Every email delights in a new way.So, my question today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,9,20,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","8":"category-email-marketing","9":"category-fiction","10":"category-inner-game","11":"category-writing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}