Monday 4 June 2012

Writing or spamming? What on earth am I doing?

Dear readers, ( the few I have now, or the many I got in 5 weeks )

I am a bit in an odd mood.
Last week my computer slowed down getting even slower then it already was. Now that is not exciting news. It actually is bad news as I got used to the darn thing, and I hate formatting installing and the likes.
Then again, it has served me very well over the last 8 years, so I can thank it for a lot. It has brought me work, friends and served me for all the slave work I had to do for study.

This little small form factor computer has done a world of favours for its boss, knew my printer as its best friend, and made me art and stories. Loads of em. Sill it has to go now, for an other sff computer is going to serve my needs now.
Not going to scrap it, I will give it a good clean, and feed it to the kids.
I will teach the kids to have respect for it, use it wise, and feed it a picture now and then. They can use their little camera's to feed this little computer their view of the world. If they use it with respect, it will serve them long.

See, this is how I am doing! Not right, romanticizing a computer, I felt odd since these last few days.

So hoping to do some writing today, I restarted the old computer for one of its last times, to serve me for some writing. When it had started after a cup of coffee and some more time, it told me a very nice thing!
I got some advice in from Scott Roberts! Scott is a St. Louis, Missouri-based Blogger and Chilehead, about my own chilli blog. Taking this advice to heart, I tried to connect my blog to my official Facebook page, and Facebook to twitter and twitter to R.S.S. Now that last bit, I have not succeeded upon, will have to conquer that an other day for I needed to write a bit now.
My goodness I really had to study to get that right, making me wonder if the wonders of the new social world are really something for me. Social media at its best, things seem to work for me now, so now my Facebook posts at Twitter what I am blogging about. So now I don't have to do as much SEO (search engine optimization) as my social media is doing the socializing for me.
Reading the last part, I sound like a nerd aren't I?

Do I need to learn this all just to be able to write???
No, surely not as I can also write on a roll of toiletpaper, and have the kids flush every story after they've read it. Then again, if I hear my kids tell my stories to others and I see their blush of excitement again, and the listeners love my stories I am convinced. I am convinced that I need to write, and share stories to people that want to hear them, so I should try and get the audience that wants to read. So I have 2 groups that I need to try and reach, one for reading about chillies and recipe's, the other group is the one from parents that take or make the time to read their kids a story.

So for those groups, and to give them the choice weather they like me and my writing or not, I need to get social on social media. But the question arises if I want to be a spammer or a writer? I want to write for sure, and actually don't want to be bothered that much with all the things surrounding publishing and getting known. To have someone do this S.E.O. for me, I have to pay about 45 Euro/hour, and I make zero writing so it is not the best of ideas.
So I will have to spam a bit and I need to rely on friends to share, if they like the story I wrote, and that simple drop of oil will spread on water having the greatest colours you have seen. So if someone likes a story or something I wrote about chillies, and its get shared, I have to let the story go.

Maybe someday I hear my story told by a total stranger, for the simple reason that he liked it, and found it.

Rant over, and I will have blogger put it to facebook, and facebook to . . . . . . .

I'll get my coat. . . .

3 comments:

  1. Social media is the future Bart. You must hitch a ride on that fast train. Your efforts will be rewarded i'm sure.
    Keep up the good work.
    Ash

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  2. Haha Bart. I am sure that you have the perseverance to succeed and it will all come together in the end. All the very best my friend.
    Kaz

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  3. Thank you Ash,
    I am an old fart trying to learn new tricks.

    And Mrs Chutney
    I will indeed, thank you for the reinsurance!
    Thank you,

    you are real friends !

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