How To Promote Your Under-Appreciated Blog In Just One Click

Your blog’s got great content but no readers?  Or relish the task of discovering new blogs with killer content that haven’t been thrust into the spotlight yet?

If you’re like me with no marketing or social blogging skills whatsoever or even a large community of readers to promote our blog, I guess you can say this is the fastest ticket to the answer of our prayers.

Chuck Westbrook has the answer.

Join his motley group of bloggers as we scour for new diamonds in the rough blogs and read a new one for two weeks. By becoming a member, you would also have the chance for your blog to be chosen. There’s probably around more than 400 bloggers (I’m the 408th )who’ve signed up. I’ve entered my name into the list and hope we can see each other in this burgeoning community of bloggers helping other bloggers.

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Overwhelmed? Re-assess Your Writing Goals

I’ve talked about deciding where to focus my attentions at whether it be building this blog, my freelancing career or writing fiction.

I’m glad to note there are other writers joining me in re-assessing their writing goals. Recently coming at a crossroads. Knowing that we’ve got to step back before we burn ourselves:

Zoe at Essential Prose

Brenda Emmett at Writing From the Trenches

It’s so important to get clarity. I remember years ago I came upon this line at Steve Pavlina’s uber-popular article that’s probably encased in marble in the hall of self-helpdom: DO IT NOW. I’m like, Pff! This line’s easy. Of course, I know what I want. At that time, I wasn’t even making any attempt to follow my dream. Now I’m just coming to terms with how so many layers are buried in this one quintessential line. I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just didn’t know there were so many ways to get there.

What happened was that there were just so many things I wanted to do that I didn’t know where to focus my attention. So I’m tinkering here, fiddling a little bit there and basically scurrying all over the place putting out any fire that comes up. My mind has become clouded and cluttered. I’m constantly overwhelmed. There’s no crystal clear clarity, my eyes formed into slits with all their focus on that one single red target on the dartboard and all my system’s tensing to barge right into it screaming, “GO! GO! GO!”

I wasn’t giving it my all. There was no overwhelming force. I wasn’t giving 100%. And I know I’ve been holding myself back. I’m beating myself up because I realized I wasn’t giving it my best. I wasn’t consistently hitting that spot on the wall over and over again until it explodes. Because there were so many things I wanted to do and just so little of me to give. I want to build this blog to create a Googleable presence, to connect and reach out to people, make a difference and a contribution through my stories and my articles. I want to start a freelancing career so that I can finally support myself doing what I love to do. I want to submit my fiction to contests, magazines and ezines so that my characters’ stories would be heard and touch others, that they wouldn’t just live inside me but in other people’s hearts. I want to write fiction so that RIGHT NOW I can start honing and practicing my storytelling skills so that years later I won’t look back with regret and say, “If I had started when I was young, I would have been really good by now and even have some stories published under my belt.”

This weekend, I’m going to take a step back from the pernicious forces surrounding me and pulling me into different directions. Re-assess my writing goals and what single thing I can give my all on. I will force myself to take a deep scary look and reach down deep inside me. Sort out the tangling mess of weaving and smooth them into an organized pattern onto the loom of my mind. Be unflinchingly honest and tell myself, “I’m not perfect. I’d like to be Superwoman but I wasn’t fortunate to be born in the Heroes gene pool. But I can focus all my abilities into one area and be a little extraordinary in it. If Forrest Gump can do it, heck so can I.”

Which one do you really want to focus at the moment? What’s the ONE THING that you know you give a 100% of your attention to, you would definitely succeed and hit that bull’s eye?

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The Real Essay Porn

Outlines my students handed in today. Oh my! And I thought they were all lacking in the sex education part. Either I’ve motivated them to embark on their own sexual orientation or they’re closet nymphomaniacs.

The Perfect Girlfriend

I. If you want to seize your boyfriend, and a good life, you must—

a. improve the privates between you (How? How? Viagra anyone?)

b. make love forever (I wish I can do that but I don’t have the stamina. Wait, that’s why we’ve gotta follow letter A first!)

II. How can you do a perfect girlfriend

a. Have some personal enhancement greatly (In what area? What huge standards you have!)

b. Try to encourage your boyfriend to do his business well (gosh, you don’t have to be so anal about it!)

c. What are you waiting for? Just do it!

The Perfect Girlfriend Essay Outline #2

I. Bust size is very important. I’m not have hard choosing. (Hmm… That’s too bad. Although, I’m not sure many girls would like to hear that.). She must be 40 D, it’s okay (whoa! Okay??), adequate waist and hips, like an hourglass would be fine. (Dude, she’s more likely to fall all over you.)

To Be a Superhero

I. The batman is a shiny boil (Batman has been reduced to a skin infection. Oh dear!) who is a man of wealth so he can strike criminals by his advance arms (Octopussy, here we come!)

II. The superman is a ET (I can hardly envision Superman with bug eyes and that long neck) comes for a plant called Kal-el (wonder what plant produces kryptonite?)

III. The superman often wears his red underwear out with blue ballet stockings (Something tells me I don’t want to see this in Broadway)

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Writing Updates- Writers Are Not Very Good At Waiting

1. Short stories to date -4.
2. Currently working on and off on one short story for four weeks. Guiness here I come!
3. Submitted three articles to Ezine. They should tell me in a week whether they’ve accepted them or not.
4. Submitted a book review for my college’s newsletter last Sunday and haven’t heard from them since. And they’ve told me last time they’d be more than happy to accept some articles from me. Aaargh…
5. Submitted a query to my college’s magazine on the same day and haven’t heard back from them. I ought to call that damned editor.
6. Rejections -2. One magazine folded. And I’ve yet to hear from the other one.
7. Ideas for short stories: too many to mention.
8. Ideas for novels: two notebooks and counting
9. Mind Clutter Rate: High

Four out of those nine updates involve lots of impatient foot tapping and thumb sucking as we await in agony for the news knowing it’ll be eons till we can learn to sit like a Zen monk –patiently waiting and freezing our balls off on the Himalayan tops.

This is why I haven’t been able to decide on which area I’d like to focus on –building my blog or continue writing fiction or starting a freelance writing career. I could really use a cloning machine now. My mental RAM is more suited to single tasking. If it is running two or three programs at the same time, it is known to crash. But it makes up for it with its elegant design and fun functions like its access to the superconscious, the PP function (Paranormal Porn) and random fun entries program that give you the latest updates on the Hillary Clinton vs Harry Potter Presidential Election and those who are having multiple orgasms at the moment with real time detection.

Writers don’t have to wait when writing a blog. You get an awesome idea, write it down and in seconds everyone gets to read it. This can all take place in the same day. Instant gratification and the words every writer wants to hear, “You’re published!” Sit back and then immediately bask on your adoring fans as they eat up your words and kowtow to you a million times.

If you’ve decided to take the more ‘distinguished’ path, you don’t get to reap what you sow immediately. It can take place in months in a crawling snail’s pace. You send query after query till the magazine shuts down (like in my experience). You don’t get to see your work up front immediately. Even if you’ve got 40 stories circulating, it would still take a month to two months for them to respond to you and believe me, they take their sweet time. You don’t see any successful block you’ve achieved to boost your self-esteem. It can take literally a year or years for you to see any improvement in your publishing credits and frankly speaking, I hardly relish waiting that long. I’m the type who wants to see the results of my labor NOW.

So I’m still in a daze at the present moment on which area I’d like to focus 80% of my attention on (the other 20% belongs to the day job). This weekend, I’ll strive to get clarity on that.

The foot tapping continues.

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