Approaching Clarity, Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho!
Hooray! I have finally finished the old-post makeover project where I've been adding internal links to the old evergreen posts in my blog, LIFE-BUILT POEMS: LIVING OUT LOUD and fixing up minor SEO glitches and such.
It's been grand because it helped me figure out a bunch of good stuff.
I've figured out the standards to which I shall be holding myself going forward as I produce more of these blatherings.
I also was able to suss out how the diverse topics about all the assorted head-games and explorations I like to do connect with each other, which helps me construct better puzzle pieces that will eventually fit together (more or less) into a book that makes sense.
This has helped me to develop more and better means to segue from one broad bunch of topics to the next and recognize any Stupid Thoughts before they get away from me. This one is a big bonus!
It also helped me identify and recognize when I've made a weak sister of a post that needs to be held down and reshaped. And I was able to revisit the ones that make me proud to be their mommy.
All of it was in aid of developing a better product.
You guys have been a big help in all of this, I tell you.
Let me thank you again for making the effort to respond to my comment asks with quality comments that add to the scope of the posts or at least provide some different perspectives or better illumination or something. I cannot do this thing without you guys!
Thank you!
Also, a long, involved, and very academical (is that a word?) email from a friend who is a psychology professor at Whittier College about his experiences attending a conference in Puerto Rico with other big brains who are sociologists, anthropologists and other guys who study peoples and civilizations got me to thinking deep on my writing efforts.
The conference that my friend attended focused on cultural issues like the effects of colonization on the cultures of indigenous and native peoples and stuff like that. His musings helped me figure out one more component of what I am doing with this blog-thing.
(Even if my conclusions are wrong, they make such a good story-building framework that I am moved to keep on going toward getting it better....)
I told him that the blog I'm doing, LIFE-BUILT POEMS: Living Out Loud, is developing into a thing that attempts to help people get through the multiplicity of cultures (which include business ones and social ones as well as racial ones) that we all face every day without getting too much egg-on-face as well as keeping a firm grip on mental health things.
Since I am a poet and I do hang with great storytellers, my own efforts tend to be all about the power of Logos and are heavily into metaphors, music, art, dance, martial arts, and touchy-feely stuff like that, I said.
He took a look at the blog and thought it was "cool." (Yay!)
Okay. 'Nuff pie-in-the-sky. I've gotta get back to figuring out how to monetize the durned thing. [Cue in the Heigh-Ho Cinderella's dwarves song.]
Hope you guys are having fun making your own breakthroughs.
-- Netta
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Awesome, Netta! Keep doing what you are doing, you seem very motivated by it!
Keep succeeding!
Jeff
Thanks, Frank!
I bet you're right, but think about it: Doesn't "academical" call up visions of those guys who can only talk with multi-syllabic Latinate words, eschewing the more straightforward Anglo-Saxon phrases?
My friend really has a hard time getting into the joys of idiom-slinging. It's why I got so excited by his "cool."
Hee!
(Sorry...Poet Me gets carried away when I start playing with words.)
-- Netta
It’s a great word, Netta. I make up words all the time. My last one was “oxymoronic”. Maybe it is a word already, but I love it. Knowing the scope of your website, it is a noble project you are attempting. But I thought it was very well put together already. Still, bigger is not always better, so a little housecleaning can’t hurt.
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Great job! Keep up the momentum.
Susan
Thanks, Susan.
-- Netta