Daily Prompt – Recently Acquired

What’s the most important (or interesting, or unexpected) thing about blogging you know today that you didn’t know a month ago?

It’s interesting to think about the previous month and the interactions that I’ve had with not just my blog, but the blogs of other people, and I’ve realised just how time consuming blogging can be.

20 Nov – A Book Inside

Do you have a book in you? Fact or fiction? Related to your blog or totally different?

I like to think that I have a few books inside of me. However I doubt I’d ever get around to actually writing them. Sounds very defeatist of me, huh.

12 Nov – Writer’s Block

Have you ever had extended writer’s block? How long did it last? What did you do to break out of it, and do you have tips for other bloggers?

I constantly find myself struggling with writer’s block, but the problem is that I can’t skip past it and come back to it later. Everything needs to be written in order.

6 Nov – Professional Blogger?

Do you consider yourself a “professional” blogger? Why or why not? What does that mean to you?

 

Nothing professional going on here… Move along…

23 July – Blog Love

Tell us 10 things you love about blogging.

1. I never thought I’d actually be a blogger

…and now I’m hooked. I love that I’ve actually started and more importantly continued writing my blog. Granted, I currently have, like 18 posts to catch up on, but fuck, man… I have no time!

 

2. I have followers!

I’m amazed that there’s over 130 people out there who actually read my ranty bloggy randomness. To all my followers (really, I’m more amazed that I actually HAVE followers!) – THANKYOU!!

 

3. It’s a challenge

Blogging has provided me an outlet to create some creative writing pieces, as I continue my writing journey, and it makes me realise a) just how much I enjoy creative writing, and b) how hard it actually is.

 

4. It’s practically anonymous

That’s not me

When I started my blog, I made a conscious decision not to tell everybody I know about it, because well, I wanted to keep something separate from the rest of my social media life. Granted, only a select handful of people I know, know about this blog, and I quite like that. It’s almost like exclusivity.

5. The challenge.

Trying to blog daily and work two jobs and maintain a relationship and everything else that comes with life has been a bit of a struggle. In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have decided to take on two separate post-a-day challenges, but I have and I’ve stuck to it. I often find myself with quite a backlog, but then I get to a point where I can smash out ten posts on a sunday afternoon which helps me catch up… and then when I do, it’s such a sense of accomplishment!

 

6. Other people’s blogs

It’s been quite interesting opening my eyes to the blogging world. I still tell myself that I’m still trying to find my feet with it all, and am constantly amazed at just how many blogs and bloggers there are out there. I’m always learning more… I didn’t even know there were such things as ‘Blogger Conferences’!!

7. I’m not the only one.

I’ll never forget the moment when I started following a couple of my follwers’ blogs, only to discover that they were also full of ranty, sweary, bloggy, randomness. Sitting there like a kid on christmas morning, I realised that I’m really not the only one who is also feeling jaded and generally hating people for being a bunch of fucktards. You guys are my new best friends… that I’ve never met. *hugs*

8. The push for more creativity.

Through my blogging venture so far, I’ve realised just how much I miss writing. I know that I have a lot of shit going on in my head, and I’m the sort of person who just wants to get it all down on ‘paper’, in an attempt to try and calm my mind. As a result, I’ve discovered that there are a few different writing ventures and aspirations that I would secretly like to achieve in addition to keeping up my blog… but those things take time, and time is something I don’t seem to have much of.

9. It’s something that I can do wherever I am.

Mobile blogging is fantastic. I love being able to spend work time updating all the posts in my draft folder, then spend my time in transit between work and home and the gym etc tapping away on my phone, or sitting in a food court killing time updating my blog. Previously I was spending that time watching catch-up tv shows, but now blogging has overshadowed that.

10. GIFS!! USE ALL THE GIFS!!

Because gifs are so fucking awesome and they complete me. Gifs make everything better.

17 July – Technological Decade

Tell us what you think blogging and social media will look like 10 years from now. Will wearable technology change the way we tell our story?

 

Ten years from now, we will have a much more convenient way of telling our story…

Daily Prompt – By The Dots

We all have strange relationships with punctuation — do you overuse exclamation marks? Do you avoid semicolons like the plague? What type of punctuation could you never live without? Tell us all about your punctuation quirks!

I have a couple of punctuation quirks, now that I think about it. I have a tendency to use a lot of full-stops either at the end or beginning of…

Daily Prompt – Writing Space

Where do you produce your best writing — at your desk, on your phone, at a noisy café? Tell us how the environment affects your creativity.

Well, the bulk of my writing is all done on my phone. On the bus, waiting for a train… It’s always with me and although it’s frustrating because my thumbs constantly hit the wrong keys, it allows me to smash out some posts whilst in transit to and from work which is great – especially when I have soooo many catch up posts to write.

Daily Prompt: In the Summertime

Theoretically, summer will return to the polar-vortex-battered Northern Hemisphere. What are you looking forward to doing this summer? If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, what are your fondest memories of Summer past?

Well, for us here in ‘Straya, we get really hot summers… this past summer we saw some temperatures reach from between 46 – 48 degrees (celsius). I remember when I was a kid, we lived in the country and every summer we would have to endure 45-degree heat waves for up to two weeks at a time before we’d actually get a cool change come through.

As the world and society has evolved, along with the ozone layer and global warming, that has since changed. Living in Melbourne, I’ve noticed a distinct pattern in summer… it’ll get ridiculously hot for a few days in a row, then it will rain. Then it gets hot again, then it rains again. We’re fortunate enough to have air conditioning where I live as well as where I work, however catching public transport between the two of them can become quite a nightmare. A hot, sweaty, exhausting, sweaty, smelly, sweaty nightmare.

For me, the standout memories of this summer were extensive train delays due to track network upgrades; countless days of making my absolute favourite Watermelon Mocktail (Watermelon, fresh mint leaves, apple & mint juice, splash of lemon juice and ice – all whizzed up in a blender, and served over ice and some fresh mint leaves to garnish!); it was also a time of sleeping; blogging and PS3; copious amounts of food, but above all, the stress and drama revolving around Christmas.

What. A. Nightmare.

Surprisingly, not once did I get to go to the beach. I didn’t get to swim in the ocean. In fact, I barely managed to swim in a pool for most of summer. Granted I was also carrying a little excess weight, so getting my top off in public certainly wasn’t an option, but it’s disappointing that I didn’t even get the opportunity to visit the ocean.*sigh* I love the ocean. It’s so therapeutic for me.

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Mar 11: Ten Years From Now

Do you think you’ll still be blogging 10 years from now?

 
In a previous post I wrote about what I’d be doing, or like to be doing ten years from now… however, can I see myself still blogging ten years from now?? I’m not sure.

By that stage, if I was still blogging, I would certainly like to have a blog that is quite popular, and one that has gained quite a lot of recognition. Moreso, I would like to have at least written a couple of novels… published or not, I’d at like least to have achieved the goal of writing them.

Fact is, I really don’t enjoy thinking that far ahead… I’ll be in my *gulp* 40’s then… which just blows my mind. I don’t want to be 40. I never wanted to even turn 30 and yet, here I am. It’s so depressing.

Is that your intention WordPress, with prompts like this? Do you just want the rest of us to start feeling miserable because we’re all now thinking about how much older we’re going to be?? THANKS A LOT!! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go back to bed and wallow in self-pity and depression at the thought of ageing.