Account Options> Brenda Brown ElliottBrenda Brown ElliottBrenda Brown Elliott 1brendabrown1@gmail Account–PrivacyView profileBrenda Brown ElliottBrenda Brown Elliott 1brendabrown1@gmail All your Google+ pages ›Add account Sign out Settings 2013-09-20 A list of 26 questions is on it.docxAdd to DriveEdit onlineDownload originalShareFileViewHelp Where did your inspiration come from? My dad was always thinking about how to make life better but couldn’t see how that could be done with existing attitudes and social structures. That got me thinking about this too, at quite an early age, so I’ve been analysing and researching this now for decades. The structured development techniques of my Naval Architect profession, combined with my counselling training and experience then provided the tools to address these complex, dynamic world problems from new angles. I then found cross-connections among our world problem areas and was able to reduce the complexities back to what individuals can practically do to bring positive change on a world-wide scale. That has now become ‘FutureQuest’ What makes your book better or different? On researching existing books and publications on this set of topics I have only found subject matter relating to individual aspects of the complex problem set, which don’t actually address existing cross-connections. This really is a multi-disciplinary problem set in which all connected sub-problems require solutions. While it is too big a task exploring all combined solutions in this book, I present some prototype solutions in ‘FutureQuest’, to typical problems, which can be applied to other similar problems with small adjustments. What do you want your readers to walk away with after reading your story? Readers of ‘FutureQuest’ will find practical steps to take, which together with different steps others are taking, will change the world toward a great future. Have you had or will you offer a newsletter for your readers? I have a website at futurequest.info, which is being set up to address unfolding world events, to analyse how they affect our collective future and what we can do about them. Currently people can subscribe to my mailing list to which I post such updates and other interesting stuff. Where do you do most of your writing? I write at home in a relaxed position with my puter on my lap, to divert all my energy to my mind. When did you seriously start writing? I first started writing about twenty-something years ago, after we adopted twin sisters from Fiji, to establish an accurate record of events and thereby create a legacy for our daughters. After starting this venture I realised how inadequate my written expression was so I took a course in creative writing. This adoption chronicle is not really meant for publishing (although with enough pressure I may reconsider), but it is for personal use within our family and circle of friends. Tell us about “YOU”. Excerpt from ‘FutureQuest: - About the Author’ Albert Sedlmayer was born in War-ravaged Germany in 1946. At age six his family moved to Australia and became Australian citizens. From 1962 he lived thirteen more cold-war years back in Germany where he trained as cabinetmaker and architectural draughtsman, designing houses by day and playing lead guitar in rock bands by night. In 1975 he and his German wife moved to New Zealand and started their adoptive family. He began boatbuilding, founded a successful yacht design business and pioneered marine CAD/ CAM applications. He taught yacht design evening classes and wrote technical papers and articles for the marine industry and yachting publications. Concurrently he learned creative writing, trained as counsellor and studied theology, majoring in relationships. In 1992 they moved back to Australia, where he joined an innovative ship design company as senior Naval Architect. In 2012 he founded Sedlmayer Associates Pty Ltd, Naval Architects. Albert spent significant life-periods living fully immersed in the diverse cultures and attitudes of different nations. His vocational profile has endowed him with methodologies to solve complex, dynamic problems. Counselling training and experience has instilled him with a deep, empathic insight into humanity. After decades of studying people, world events and technology he realised that a great, sustainable world-future was achievable, so harnessing Information-Age power and engaging his design-thinking ability he wrote FutureQuest. Give us a “reader” excerpt……. Excerpt from ‘FutureQuest: - Knowledge Structures and Relationships:’ The traditional relationships people have with their knowledge is like a marriage. A student decides on a career path and signs an engagement contract with a particular body of knowledge. After a few years of learning about each other with experiments and testing, the relationship is confirmed, sealed and authorised by a Vice Chancellor celebrant and the marriage certificate degree is issued. Subsequently, whenever someone wants to know whether you and a particular body of knowledge are really an item, you just flash your degree. There is another relationship status becoming very common, now that knowledge is so freely accessible over the internet: the de-facto relationship. This co-habitation is not made with a contract nor involves any long-term commitment. Often a specialised knowledge body is just required for a specific purpose. After that it becomes redundant and a new knowledge relationship is formed for a new purpose or project. Knowledge relationships are usually polygamous, because you can add other knowledge bodies for different aspects of your life. Divorce is not possible. You can abandon a particular body when it becomes dated, no longer needed or when you bore each other but while it may fade, it never really leaves you. When it gets old it loses some of its validity and functions. If you change your career you must start a new relationship with a completely new body of knowledge. Of course we can torture the metaphor a little further: Sometimes your knowledge relationship becomes so intimate and resourceful that you beget children – you create new knowledge. Okay-okay, I’ll stop now. Do you have a particular writing process? Definitely! My foreseeable books are non-fiction. First I write a loose outline paragraph of the scope of the book (I have several of these for different topics waiting in a file for inspiration and time, to bring them to life). Then I write a list of headings of the chapters that will I think will be needed. My initial target is about fifty headings (chapters) for which I can easily write a thousand words each. After that I choose the heading for which there is the greatest pressure within me, bursting to get out. This pressure explosion is usually substantial and results in a chapter of a couple of thousand words. After going through the high-pressure chapters I inevitably get to those of low-pressure (like those requiring research or intensive thought), which are necessary for the context and structure of the book. Here I establish pressure by setting a daily minimum word-quota. I start with something easily achievable, like 200 words per day, and after a few days the natural quota will reveal itself. Some days I have no ideas and just write light, fluffy stuff which I know I will Have to strengthen and revise later – but it fills the quota and releases the mind. Once the body has been written out, I go through revision after revision, writing down the aim of each revision beforehand, and testing the result afterward. A non-fiction book like FutureQuest requires about 30-40 revisions, to ensure that everything is in fact, fact. Was there any research required to write this book? Research for non-fiction books is essential and takes an enormous amount of time, but with today’s online resources time can be used very effectively. Where can your books be found? All major online booksellers. Unfortunately bookshops are closing down at an alarming rate. Do you build a synopsis first? Most definitely; but as the book progresses, it chooses its own path which can be a surprise and requires frequent updates to the synopsis. Do you burn the midnight candle? Yes. Most of my writing is done at night after everyone has gone to bed and I have no distractions whatsoever. I wrote much of the body of FutureQuest on my smartphone in the dark in my bed at night. I would often wake up and write down ideas as they came to me. Tiredness is never really an issue because the adrenalin keeps me going and drives me on. Albert Sedlmayer 20-09-2013 1 2 3 4 Loading... Search the documentCtrl+FFind nextF3Find previousShift+F3Sign in Add to Drive Edit online Download originalCtrl+SPrint (PDF)Ctrl+PZoom inCtrl+Shift+→Zoom outCtrl+Shift+←Fit page to screen width1Fit two pages to screen width2Compact controlsShift+Ctrl+FPlain HTMLHHelp Center User Forum Report an issue Show keyboard shortcuts?
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