
Part of learning is messing up.
10 Mistakes Writers Can’t Be Afraid to Make If They Want to Succeed

Part of learning is messing up.
10 Mistakes Writers Can’t Be Afraid to Make If They Want to Succeed

Some Social Media Bullshit
You don’t have to like it, but have to be in there: The social media of the world wide web. After all, who wants to be a complete social outcast!
Here are a few examples of what can be used for keeping in touch with family, friends and even your favourite movie stars!
* Assbook: Like opinions, everyone has more than one
* Angstagram: I post photos of myself and my eating habits, therefore I am
* Bitter: You would be too if no one is following you, right?
* Benchpress: For every self aware blabber, but more artistic ;P
* Tiedup: A must for professionals, endorse endorse endorse until you drop!
* You-boob: You did something stupid, maybe flashed a body part usually hidden, it got on video and uploaded on the internet and now you are the star of your own show!
A typical modern person’s day
@In the morning
The alarm clock is going off, it’s time to get up.
What is the first thing you do?
#Pick up your phone from the night stand and:
A) Check your social media apps
B) Check your email
@Driving in the car to your place of work.
Listening to the radio and the DJ is urging you to snap a photo and upload it to their site:
#uploadfunnypic
A) You are snapping selfies and almost bumping into the car that stopped in front of you. (The other driver possibly doing the same thing as you).
B) You are twatting your social media buddies of what you just did.
@Lunch time everyone with their phones in their respective hands. Not one word is spoken to anyone ‘live’, but they all are:
A) Chatting (and oh yes, there are actually office use approved ones too: Yank!)
B) Updating statuses on various social media apps.
C) Uploading photos of what they ate (of course, a must for every self aware social medialite).
D) Someone shared a funny video and twatted the link to everyone else around the table.
E) Everyone watching the video.
F) Everyone twatting feedback to each other.
@Coffee break everyone is:
A) Uploading photos of coffee and doughnuts they will consume.
B) Chatting with the people around the coffee table.
Back home from the office.
@Dinner table the family is sharing a meal and their respective day:
A-F apply here too.
@Midnight, bedtime:
A) Time to recap today’s event in your “blab”.
B) Latest friend updates to be checked (so not to miss any important things such as what your friends ate or what they were watching on TV, etc.)
C) Twatting everyone
#g’night!
Sometimes though, you have to be more low tech. For example in the situation, where your respective spouse is not quite on the same level of enlightenment regarding the social conventions of the social media as you are. Then you have to resort to archaic methods like the SMS.
Wishing your spouse
#sweet dreams xoxo
Lesson learnt:
Getting anything done; 3% is talent, 97% is staying off the internet.
“We’re flying oh so high, with great big smiles, yes, it’s poetry in motion alright!” Gun Roswell
Five years of flying with WordPress
Five years since this started
Five years, and I cannot be parted
Five years more, they say
Five years! I’ll be sore
Five years, well, guess I can do more!
Thanks to all you readers and writers out there!
Keep on blogging Y’all!
Posted in A Quote a Week Tuesday
Quote a Week Tuesday
“To be, or not to be…” is the opening phrase of a soliloquy in the “Nunnery Scene” of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In the speech, a despondent Prince Hamlet contemplates death and suicide.
On the lighter side of this quote, I have adapted it to the world of blogging.
Sometimes we, bloggers, hit a wall, yes that does actually happen more often than anyone realizes! During this period, while banging our heads against the wall, we are asking ourselves “Why are you blogging? Why are you blogging? Why are you blogging?”
Maybe it is the knock of the wall that makes us come to our senses, and at this time a proverbial lamp lights upon our collective heads. And it’s when we realize, the question is actually wrong!?
So why not consider this question instead:
“To blog or not to blog? That’s a trick question, isn’t it?”
And this response to the question is:
“We blog, therefore we are!”
Keep on blogging Y’all!
Posted in Events: World Poetry Day
“A poem a day,
keeps the shrink at bay”
Gun Roswell
World Poetry Day
What would life be
Without a poet like me?
As you can plainly see
Even poetry
May be
As important for thee
As it is, for little ol’ me
Fill the world with poetry!
Posted in Throwback Thursday: Treasures from the archives
“Breathe-in experience,
breathe-out poetry”
Muriel Rukeyser
Stuck Between a Poem and a Hard Place
I am a poet
But did not know it
Now I am writing
Lyrics without biting
The bullets
My mind to the fullest
Hammering the keyboard
Not a big chore
No, not anymore
Ever since I started
I cannot be parted
From the blank page
That clean slate
Words pouring
My heart roaring
I feel elevated
Totally animated
Full of excitement
I am completely and utterly
Lost in Poetry
A poem a day keeps the Shrink at bay!
Posted in Celebration
“If I waited until I felt like writing,
I’d never write at all”
Anne Tyler
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Two Year Anniversary on WordPress
Today, it has been two years since I started my blog Rantings of a Third Kind here on WordPress.
“A poem a day keeps the shrink at bay”, is a great guideline to follow and it is has been working for me at least!
My advice, in case you asked, to all you bloggers and wanna be writers out there, is to set yourself some time aside each day and if nothing else, pour your mind flow onto the paper or as it is in these modern days, in bits and bytes. I know this may sound like cliched advice, but it’s better to force yourself to a routine of writing rather than postponing it for one reason or another. I know there are always excuses as to why not, but in the end, if you have a passion for writing, the excuse are just that – excuses. And do not be afraid to publish, good or bad, it’s all good in the end.
Gun Roswell
Posted in the Throwback Thursday
“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry” Muriel Rukeyser
Stuck Between a Poem and a Hard Place
I am a poet
But did not know it
Now I am writing
Lyrics without biting
The bullets
My mind to the fullest
Hammering the keyboard
Not a big chore
No, not anymore
Ever since I started
I cannot be parted
From the blank page
That clean slate
Words pouring
My heart roaring
I feel elevated
Totally animated
Full of excitement
I am completely and utterly
Lost in Poetry
A poem a day keeps the Shrink away!
Posted in Holiday (as in Out of Office, no WWW available 😉 )
“I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach” Rosamund Pike
Rantings of a Third Kind on Holiday (06.-14.08.2016)
Dear reader
Your cheerleader
Has left the building
From her cage of gilding
Soon to be singing
Around and around spinning
On a beach
Without a leash
For moments of few
On a holiday
Well overdue
Don’t feel blue
Will see you soon
Meanwhile
Just a few files
For your viewing pleasure
On your time of leisure