One of this weeks Tangible Requirements is to write a “Press Release” page on my blog. The jist is to write your DMP as though it has already happened. And since this is a ‘Press Release’, it is supposed to be written as though somebody has interviewed you and your ‘success’.
Although the Press Releases that Mark J and my Certified Guide, Jason Parachnowitsch has shown us, does help with some sense of direction. I’m still feeling like somebody that doesn’t know how to use the controls on the Star Trek Holodeck. What does that button do? Or what about this one? Or that one? My mind is just blank!
My challenge this week is that I have writers block. Its not that I don’t have any ideas, its just that I am not entirely sure how I can put it all together in a style of an interview, especially with what I have covered in my DMP.
There was just so much info that is in my DMP I could piece together, and I could write them in so many ways. Heck my head jams on just thinking on who is going to be the interviewer! Sounds silly right?
Hmmm, maybe taking a few short breaks by doing some small household chores, like doing dishes, vacuuming the living room or taking out the trash or perhaps even taking a stroll in the park may help. Anything other than looking at a blank document on my computer screen may help jog some thoughts on how I can write my Press Release. Oh wait, that sounds more like procrastination or avoidance, not a good idea.
In a way it made me think of House MD, when Dr. Gregory House would have a epiphany to cure a patient while he was doing something that wasn’t anywhere near working on curing the patient. But this isn’t a TV show, this is my life.
This is definitely a challenge that I had even before MKMMA. The exercise sounds pretty straight forward, but when it comes to it, it can be difficult to complete. But I am determine to get it done. Like what my Service card says DO IT NOW!