an exercise in percussive maintenance
Category: Blogging
I suck at social media. I really do.
I’ve been on Twitter for almost a year and a half now. In that time I’ve amassed a grand total of sixty-nine followers. (Suddenly I’m thinking “amassed” is perhaps not the best word to use…) Continue reading “On my digital footprint”
John Howell’s book just came out on Kindle today. Go check it out!
This was a big day. My GRL is now on Kindle. The book cover is some how screwed (I have asked the publisher to look into it), but the content of the book and the ability to order is there. Go to my author site on Amazon and take a look. (You might even be tempted to download)
The day continued normally, but then went out of control when the dogs started barking at the UPS driver. He was standing on the porch at sundown with a thirty-two pound box pictured here.
Yeah I would say it was heavy and I did lift with care. I got out my trusty snap blade (you call that a knife?) and opened it to find inside my baby. I wanted to light the candles , but my wife would have killed me
And if that wasn’t enough, another box was on the porch (which…
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Last week I told you about my New Year’s resolution to start writing letters again and made an invitation for people to become my pen-pals. The response was smaller than I’d hoped for, but that’s probably a good thing, as writing letters can be a bit time-consuming.
I am very thankful for those who did respond, and as a thank you I thought I’d send some traffic their way.
Tiffany Metzger is a graphic designer who lives in the US. She also writes, is a big fan of Jane Austen and the Jonas Brothers. I guess everyone has their faults 😉 Luckily she also likes Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes. A regular feature on her blog that you should definitely check out is Friday Fictioneers – a blogging challenge she participates in where she writes flash fiction based on a photo every Friday.
Liese le Roux is a fellow South African who lives in Jordan. We both did an online writing course in 2012 and have been liking each others’ statuses on Facebook since. She recently migrated to WordPress from Blogger and I’m sure she’d welcome more followers. Look forward to humourous travelogues, stories of how she kills her plants and descriptions of meals that will have you wishing she’ll invite you for dinner.
John Howell lives in the US along the Gulf of Mexico. He has just published his debut novel, My GRL. He’ll in fact be stopping by here within the next couple of weeks on his promotional blog-tour for the novel. His blog focuses mostly on writing, but there’s other fun stuff as well, especially the Top Ten No Nos he posts every Monday.
Please go drop by their blogs and say hi.
And if you change your mind about the pen-pal thing, feel free to use the contact page in the menu to e-mail me and I’ll let you know what to do.
…in yesterday’s post I announced my New Year’s resolution, namely to start writing letters again. Along with that I made an open call for pen-pals. Yes, you have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become pen-pals with someone who is hopefully going to be a famous author one day in the distant future.
Thanks to those who have already responded. You can start watching your mailboxes in a couple of weeks. I’ve decided to leave the form up for another day, so there’s still time for you to get in on this wonderful opportunity. Just click here.
In other news, the wife has also started blogging. The day I met her she was busy drawing. I made a remark about wishing that I could draw and she responded with a very snotty retort that anyone can draw if they just try. I’m not going into all of the detail, but suffice to say that I showed her 😉
Anyway, thanks to the rigours of life she had been drawing and painting less and less and her New Year’s resolution is to draw more. In fact, her resolution is two-fold: draw more and be more thankful.
Out of this resolution was born The Gratitude Calendar. The idea is that every day this year she is going to post a simple sketch of something for which she is thankful. She’ll post other stuff as well, but the calendar is her main project for the year. I think it’s a grand idea and you’d do well to go check it out.
On a side-note, you’ll notice her handle is Kokkelien. That has been her mother’s pet name for her since she was very little. We have no idea where the nickname came from, as it bears no relation to any name in either her immediate or extended family.
Maybe my mom-in-law was prescient as her daughter’s surname is now Kok and the wife and I can make a formidable blogging team as Kokkie and Kokkelien. Funny how life works out sometimes, isn’t it?
Tune in tomorrow when I review the best film of 2014…
Given that tomorrow’s the end of 2013 I’m not going to do a Song Title Challenge today. Anyway, last week’s story was number 30, which is a nice round number on which to end. You don’t agree? Tough. My blog, my rules, as I’m sure I’ve said before 😉
Instead, I’m going to look back a bit over my year on if all else fails…use a hammer, as is apparently traditional for those few still blogging at this time of the year. Continue reading “On a year of blogging”
if all else fails...use a hammer 