May 27, 2012
I’ve always loved the dual purpose word: Beat (a rhythm, an action). Class (a group, a status). So “resume” and “resume’ ” aren’t exactly the same thing, but… it’s late, so that’s all the brain-power you get from me right now.
This post is scheduled for Sunday, but I’m writing it Friday night. Actually, I’m linking it.
It’s going to be a non-writing weekend for various reasons, plus I’m trying to boost my blog popularity (like that’s anything new). So the following is a list of my Very Important Posts from the last few months. These are the posts that have either been nationally featured on BlogHer.com and/or received great attention in other ways. It’s sort of a review, if you will. My Resume’.
In a few days, I hope to resume my blog writing intently. Along with two devotions, the book series, the correspondence course, and the short stories for contests/submissions.
I missed posting “What’s the Word? Wednesday” on the 23rd, but I’ll have a new one posted next week.
In the meantime, feel free to click on these (or any posts) and leave your comments and feedback.
And now for (I hope) your reading enjoyment, the Frankly, My Dear Mojo reading list for May, 2012:
Lessons Learned: The Louie Edition
How to Survive a Midnight Movie Premiere
More or Less: 29 Words
What I Learned on Women’s Retreat [The Big Whammy!]
The Long Goodbye: What FLASHPOINT Means to Me
Prom!
Dear God, Did You Forget About Me?!
What’s Your Writing Style? Creatively Overcoming Writer’s Block
Chocolate Covered Pretzels
Meal Memo in a Jar
Davy Jones is Dead
Permission to Write
New Inklings Press
Mojo TV Review: “Once Upon a Time”
Teeter x Totter
A Good Name
Following Fabian
And Frankly, My Dear… that’s all she wrote!
Nov 18, 2011
I originally posted this last week but am thrilled to announce that right now it’s being featured at BlogHer.com. You can check it out on their website by clicking here.
Rita Arens, one of the Money Editors on BlogHer.com, has been extremely helpful and communicative. I must say, this is not what I expected. I honestly expected BlogHer to be a website where contributors posted our own links and hoped with fingers crossed that some other blogger might find our post interesting enough to leave a comment.
I didn’t really expect to be featured so soon, and I didn’t expect the response to being featured. In the first two hours, the BlogHer post has received over 600 readers, been shared on twitter and facebook, and, yes, commented on.
I. Think. I. Have. Arrived.
And it wasn’t even my best writing. So, wow.
Just. Wow.
And Frankly, My Dear… That’s All She Wrote.
Nov 9, 2011 |
I’ve got a bunch of great emails lately.
First was when I won this:
My Scharffen Berger Prize Package
Then I got this great piece of news:
Best. Email. Evvver.
Last week, my reader, Beth, sent me this:
Accessories
I’m currently waiting for the delivery of this:
Le Creuset Orange Tools and Crock Prize
And today, I learned that one of my blog posts is going to be featured on BlogHer.Com on November 18th. They even sent me this awesome Blog Badge to promote it:
My head is kinda spinning.
I’m told I should buy lottery tickets. Often.
I guess I’m just lucky that way.
I’m not writing this to brag.
I’m writing this to keep it real. Because I still can’t believe it.
Playing June Cleaver
In the last six months, I’ve lost my job, been late on the mortgage and car payments (not, like, detrimental-to-my-credit late, but late nonetheless). And even though I don’t know from one day to the next if I can buy milk for the family, I’m doing what I know I need to do: Write. Cook. And sometimes, combine the two.
And my little prizes and recognitions are amazing. The only thing better would be the Backstreet Boys personally singing “As Long As You Love Me” as I drank a bottomless Starbuck’s Pumpkin Spice Latte that magically had no calories.
I think it’s God’s way of saying, “Keep at it.”
Because let’s face it: When life throws you lemons, dontcha need those little bits of encouragement? Dontcha really just want to throw those lemons back?! I could really care less about making lemonade, and I love being in the kitchen!
So. Here’s the plan: Keep blogging. Get recognition. Keep writing. Keep cooking. Finish my cookbook. Sell my cookbook. Get more recognition. Earn money. Buy a lottery ticket. Win mucho money.
And hire someone else to make the lemonade. I’ll be too busy enjoying life.
Stinkin’ Big Lemon
