It seems I’m pulling in quite a few new readers at the moment. My daily page hit count has been around 184 over the past week or so, jumping up to 233 on one occasion. Not exactly in the same league as some out there, but a definite improvement and rather gratifying nonetheless.
So, I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank you all for helping my blog to grow. Your comments are always welcome (in fact, if you’re a new reader, please feel free to treat this as an opportunity to say hello — pimp your own blog, even, if you wish!)
Because so many new people are dropping by I thought it might be fun to look back at some of my earlier articles. I’ve picked five of my personal favourites. If you’re a regular reader and there’s an older article of mine that you like which I haven’t mentioned, please feel free to shout up!
Five of the Best.
- Drawing the Line. February 25, 2008. I like this piece because it gives an insight into how I write and, in particular, how I wrote Children of the Resolution. It was good for me to read it again. Especially at this “between-projects” time.
- Disability in Fiction. February 16, 2008. Another writing-related piece concerning expectation in writing.
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. November 26, 2007. The Richard Feynman Horizon interview — with a short introduction by me.
- You Can’t Say That. June 23, 2008. A rant on our ridiculous fear of causing offence. In part a tribute to the late George Carlin.
- Elvis, Marty Lacker… and Me. August 3, 2008. This is one of my all-time favourites because it provided me, quite unexpectedly, with the opportunity to exchange emails with one of Elvis Presley’s closest friends, Memphis Mafia member Marty Lacker. I may have a further update on this story in the not too distant future.
Well, I think that’s all for now. Take a look when you have time and enjoy. These five post probably epitomise pretty well just what I am about — or what my blog is about, at least!
We are new to wordpress… still trying to find readers and writers to join our fun little place. We are the Paselo Writers Cafe (Paselo is Shawnee for Peace!). Many of us have been writing together for decades under a different group name, but we changed it this year.
Most of our writing is poetry, but we do write prose as well. Our only goal is to enjoy writing whatever comes to mind. We have 7permanent members at the moment, but we hope that will grow.
Anyway, come on out and give us a shout!
If you like the sampling of poems we put up last night, let us know! If you want to look at individuals, just play with our friends blogs!
Thank you for this unashamed plug!
Paselo Writers Cafe
(JQ in this a.m.)
Just a quick drop by to say hello and, of course, congratulate you! Keep up rockin’!
Paselo Writers Cafe: you’re welcome! You didn’t actually include an active link in your group name so I’ve taken care of it for you.
Keep dropping by.
Baba: Cheers, mate! I shall try
Send me some of your hits, you greedy Northern coal monkey. :p
Congrats on your success. I shall go off now and be as green as a poisonous potato.
Yesterday was a bit of a slow day… only 172.
Today is already off to a good start at 65. And I haven’t even posted anything, yet.
Oh my, what a lovely shade of green
Stick with me, mate. You never know, it might rub off.
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Actually, it seems that it has a little… I’ve had four days with hits of 120+ in a row.
Doesn’t look as if you’re getting much traffic from me, mate. Maybe it’s hits by osmosis or something?
I simply bask in your presence, O swami.
Oh Christ, you’re not starting that again, are you? Everywhere I look, I’ve got people basking. I look to my left, people basking. I look to my right, more people basking. I go to the fridge… basking. Frozen food, basking — it just gets a little tedious, you know?
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve had a few slow days of around about 180. A bit of a drop from the 370s I was having earlier in the week. What I really need is for Boris to do something outrageous or controversial! His Wikipedia link only pulled in about 15 yesterday, compared with 113 at its peak.
The Darwin/Dawkins series pulled me in quite a few, too — but at the moment my latest end of the world post is the most popular. Doing very well, actually. Must be all those poor fuckers thinking we are all going to die!