So after seeing responses to last night’s post about cutting back on blogging and not knowing what to put on here. Most people wanted me to talk about myself, which might take a little time. The main reason is because I’m a dull individual outside of my writing. Here’s my weekday:
- Wake up.
- Get son ready for school.
- Get son on bus.
- Finish Internet stuff.
- Maybe bike.
- Shower.
- Maybe errands that I try to walk to.
- Writing, editing, and maintaining Internet stuff.
- Son comes home for homework.
- Play with son until shower time.
- Finish writing, editing, or whatever until sleep.
- Repeat in morning.
Doesn’t sound very interesting and weekends tend to include me trying desperately to get away from the house. I guess what trips me up is that I don’t really know how to present myself here. The writing is a core piece of my personality even outside of the computer. I can get into discussions about movies and TV, but that’s usually a back-and-forth. Again, I think I’m really dull and boring here. So I’m going to have to try and I’ll start personal posts up in November. A lot of it might end up being from my past when I actually had some kind of life. Anything current will probably be a spontaneous post.
So here is what I’m thinking:
- Monday- Post about myself with a story or something that happened over the weekend.
- Wednesday- Some aspect of writing because I do need to be an author at some point on here.
- Friday- A fictional skit like my character’s chatting or a scenario like the Olde Shoppe things that at least I enjoy writing.
- Saturday- Goal post.
This means the Works in Progress will be going away unless I need feedback. Character interviews and origins will go away unless someone requests them. To be fair, I only have one major player in Legends of Windemere left to do an origin post for and that one hasn’t debuted yet. The focus might end up being more on trying to make myself believe I’m interesting and ignoring the real-world results of talking about myself.
Keep in mind this will be in the future. October has already been set up to some extent, but I am hoping to do another ‘Monster Maker Fun’ week for Halloween. I’d drop down to the 4 times a week in November, but dammit I want my 2 years of unbroken posting.
Guess I’ll post life events if anything turns up.
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That sounds like a good plan. You can tell us about your biking adventures. I have yet to get on one without something strange happening. Of course, that could just be me 😀
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It’s a stationary bike. I don’t really go anywhere.
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Sounds like a really good plan! Looking forward to seeing how it goes.
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Just a few more months. 🙂 Not really sure what to do about December though. I think it will depend on if it’s a debut month or not.
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Looks good to me 🙂 As you may have noticed, I’ve been really slowing down on my own blog posts recently — like you, I really don’t know what to say most of the time! But talking about yourself and your past fun times sounds like a good way to go.
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Thanks. Hopefully the past fun times can last me. I’m always nervous that I remembered something differently than others.
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I didn’t have time to comment yesterday since I was traveling. I have a scheme which you may have noticed. Monday top ten, Wednesday story day, Friday TGIF. The rest of the week is support. guest blogs etc. I really end up with six days of stuff. I think your plan looks good.
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I was thinking of your set up when I planned my stuff. A MWF system definitely covers a lot of weekday time. I think keeping the weekend update/plan for the week posts would help me out too. Those always get more comments than opinion or writing pieces.
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I don’t come on the internet to use wordpress or other sites nearly as much as I would like to and then I don’t have enough time to read everything I want to, but when I do, I enjoy your blog and am interested in everything from Windermere to aritcles about writing in bed. Charles, you are an interesting guy and have a style of writing that is very personable, it makes us, your readers, interested, compels us to want to know more. You could write about what you had for breakfast and someone would like it. Keep smiling and keep writing 🙂
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Unfortunately, I think you’re in the minority. I don’t really get a lot of responses. Especially on most of my writing-based posts. It’s rather disheartening.
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Charles, dear heart, just because a comment has not been made, does not mean someone has not read it. My computer is so frustratingly inadequate (and don’t get me started on my internet issues) that it takes so long for the ‘like’ section to load that I close the page and do something else before I have had the chance to acknowledge someone’s post, little-lone comment. Don’t be disheartened, mon amis. You are an interesting and talented writer (and one of the most encouraging and supportive advocates for creative writing and creative writers, that I have had the pleasure to know (and a genuine pleasure it is, sir!). Now stop being a tit, big man hugs from baldy 🙂
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Thanks. It’s more about time invested and feedback received. I could use the post writing time for writing or this thing called sleeping. Even look at the ‘core’ posts going up this week. Very little reaction and that’s book-based. I run into the problem of people fearing spoilers too. So cutting back will reduce the chance of that.
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Fair comment, and good plan with writing, just had exact same thought but will try and keep posting and reading here (might take a break from the computer just for a couple days, we’ll see..). Sleep? Hohowhat, such silliness, Charles! Only fantasy writers like us believe in this mythical ‘sleep’! Let me know if you find any clues to it’s whereabouts and I shall gladly join your band of adventurers to help wrestle it from whichever vile villain doth keep said ‘sleep’ in thrall!
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I’m guessing it’s that moment where one yawns, collapses, and wakes to find several hours have vanished.
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Indeed! reblogged your thunderclap campaign in the hope of raising more awareness for you, hope it helps, pal. Off to sort Willow’s breakfast then the computer goes off for the day, have a great day, get writing 🙂
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Thanks. Woke up to 53 supporters, so I hope I can make it. Good luck with the breakfast. I have 15 minutes before I have to do that here.
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I don’t know that any of us find ourselves interesting, we tend to live through our writing. I guess that is all just part of the average adults life. 🙂
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I know a few people that openly claim to be interesting and great. Though they tend to be obnoxious.
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To be honest, I think it is rather unfair that people ask you to talk about yourself. I know many will lynch me for saying it, and not like I don’t care about YOU, but I’d rather read about your books. I think you already write about yourself and include aspects of your personality in your posts and those are defo not dull. This feels like people wanting you to sell your book with your personalility, not the personality and quality of the book itself. I jsut wanted you to know that I am only one, but I appriciate you as an author and a person too, and I like you, id think we would have an awesome hot sauce cookoff if we were at same place at same time. And I dont need you to juggle chainsaws for me or tell me the size and color of your poop in the morning so I might read your book.
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Thanks. I will admit that it’s getting harder to write about my books. The next book to be published is #6 and the next one to write is #9. So I hit spoiler territory a lot, which I think has driven several people away from those posts. The inspiration part has to come around a debut point too.
It’s a strange thing and I’ll still be doing some posts about my books when it comes to mind. Maybe I need a pause from that to let people catch up and other ideas gestate.
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Oh! I’ll be interested to see how this develops. Charles, of course our lives seem uninteresting to us. We live them day in and day out. That rarely makes a person uninteresting. As a matter of fact, some people reading a more personal post might say – oh geez! I might try handling …whatever…that way next time. Or…oh my gosh! I certainly know this feeling.
People may not always comment. Writers don’t write for comments – even a blog – we write to write. Or as Anais Nin once said: “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” That pretty much sums up blogging to me 🙂
I hope you find a way to blog that makes you happy, Charles.
Ellespeth
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True. One should write to write and not for comments. Though it gets a little frustrating when posts go without attention. Especially when some people request the topic.
As for my life, I couldn’t do a daily event thing. I’ll have to do more in regards to past adventures than lately. Being the house parent means I do errands that usually go without incident. That and I tend to get scolded by family for bringing up my son too often.
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And also, Charles…you mustn’t worry so much about knowing what to say about poetry you read. As a poet, I can say this:P You might know, really, why you like a poem but you just do. Somewhere – unconsciously – you know and that’s what matters.
Ellespeth
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I guess it’s simply hard to put into words at times because I feel like ‘good poem’ sounds insincere.
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I always hated that – in high school – having to say what a ‘famous poem’ meant. That was always so horrible for me. You can like a poem and have no comment…like applauding at a poetry reading.
Dream sweetly, Charles. “See” you tomorrow.
Ellespeth
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Not even the famous stuff. Any poem got that treatment. I still remember writing a poem about a dragon and people pulled so many odd stories from it.
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That’s so funny, Charles. I remember studying sonnets and writing this REALLY morbidly sad sonnet and the teacher had my mom come in. LOL! That made great dinner table fodder that evening…
Ellespeth
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Gotta love when people react that way to a poem.
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Charles, I think learning more about you before the novels is a great idea. Help us understand how it all began. I’d love to hear your stories. Huge fan of throwbacks…
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I’ll see what I can do. I’ve touched on my inspirations before, so I think people are asking more about non-writing related posts.
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I think this is a fantastic idea, Charles. My post popular post is Monday Mayhem, but the post that garners the most feedback is Freedom Friday. I think if you focus on revealing little nuggets of yourself, you’ll find you’ll gain a renewed sense of purpose. It also inspires other people when others can relate with your struggles, goals, aspirations–generally–showing you’re a real human behind the author moniker.
Something else, the work to your readership will also take on a new life, since you’ll show the context by which you’ve come about writing your stories.
Exciting times!
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Thanks. Hopefully that happens. Guess I’ll need to get some kind of life to make decent posts. 🙂
I hope the context comes out. The trick with me is that many of my ideas have been brewing for years, so the original situation that birthed them isn’t very clear. Maybe they’ll pop up if I write about certain things, but a lot simply stems from a movie, commercial, or book that I bumped into while not working on my own stuff.
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It’s not what you do – it’s what you think about while you’re doing it! That’s what makes a good post about you. :o)
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Thanks. Though I tend to think about the event that I’m talking about. I have that fun problem of my writing being a core part of my life, so that’s what I talk about. So it tends to come before the daily antics and grind.
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