Velveteen Mind

Promises promises: I promise you a pig.

Hot damn!  My post, Hierarchy of Suffering, is featured on Blog Nosh Magazine today!

And I absolutely love how I never got around to posting something new over here.  One of the things I stress to the editors is to try to give their bloggers enough time to spruce up their blog for any new readers coming their way once their post is published.  Ahem.

Would you buy it if I told you that the editor that chose my post for the Overcoming Adversity channel, Heather from The Spohrs are Multiplying, never told me my post was being featured?  Hm? 

No, I didn't think you would buy that.

So...  I'm writing this as I'm getting my sons ready for preschool.  If you are a new reader (hey you! isn't Blog Nosh fun?!  all of the posts this week are amazing, but that one of mine is one of my favorites and one of the reasons I even started this blog, as I needed to get that off my chest), come back in a few hours and I'll have a brand spanking new post up.  In the meantime, check out my "Favorite Posts" in my sidebar...  just look for the baby feet.

And if you are a regular reader, don't tell the new guys that I am totally full of it and don't actually post here more than twice a week.  Because you are all a bunch of liars.

Seriously, new post.  Coming.  Here's a teaser:

"And then I will hire a dancing pig to sit next to her mother."

Yep.  You are dying to find out what that's about, right?  New post.  As soon as I get back from dropping the boys off at preschool.  And, um, as soon as I write it.

But I'll write it in my head on the way to and from school.  And I type wicked fast.  I won the typing award in high school, you know?

Yes, I am that cool.  You have come to the right place.  Get yer nerd on, folks.

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Double Doozie: Blogging Less to Write More

I quit one of my writing gigs.  Why?  Because I couldn't bring myself to post  here at Velveteen Mind when I knew I owed a post elsewhere.

I told a friend today that it felt like calling in sick and then being caught shopping at the mall, wandering around with a Diet Coke and a Double Doozie from Great American Cookie, a satisfied grin slapped on my smug little face.

What I am saying is:  my plan is to start posting here at the ole joint with the tattered book more like 3 times a week, rather than the usual 3 times a month.  Hence, the cutting back of distractions.  And if I don't?  You can call me on it.

Mrs. Fussypants certainly already does call me on it.  So does Missives from Suburbia.  And damn Jennifer from Playgroups are No Place for Short Blog Titles.  If she suggests one more time that posting frequently is a great way to build a good blog, I'm going to poke her in the butt with a fork.

Um, so yeah, I know I should post more.  I totally get that.  (I'm planning on memorizing Jennifer's Blog Tip Sharing series.  I see that she has up a post about maintaining uncluttered Sidebars.  Good Lord, do I even want to know?  Jennifer, side offer:  if you will come over to my blog and critique it, I will offer you my butt's ability to warm a bed for 3 nights at BlogHer.  You in?)

The irony is that while you may think I've fallen off of the blogosphere, the reality is that all I have been thinking about is blogging for the last month.  I'm talking about Blog Nosh Magazine...  again.  I keep mentioning it because a lot of work is going into that project and I am not only inundated with emails every day from bloggers and editors, but I am also flooded with pride and a fiery passion for all that we are banging out and building up.

Not to mention The People's Party.  And, yes, I will be mentioning BlogHer a few more times (insert laugh here) in the next few weeks.  I'll try to do it without annoying those of you not going, but talk about a huge project!  And worth every second.

So while you have been seeing no new updates at Velveteen Mind, I have been thinking about you for hours every day.  Thinking of how to best promote your work on Blog Nosh Magazine, how to entice the most click-through to your blogs, how to let you shine.  I've been thinking about meeting you at BlogHer, helping to make you feel welcome, introducing you to our sponsors who are interested in you, plotting ways to keep you entertained and engaged, all the while taking into consideration how to include those not attending the conference.

Speaking of you broke folk (holla!) and shy peeps not going to BlogHer:  Don't forget to send me your bloggy business cards for distribution at The People's Party if you are unable to attend.  Just email me for my address.  And you absolutely have to tune in to the live feed of the party (details soon), call your friends-in-attendance and encourage them to make fools of themselves on camera while giving you a shout-out, and see that, "Hey, I should go next year because it's not that big of a deal."

(and if this isn't the most arrogant post ever, I don't know what is---  just bear with me, because I am trying to convince myself that I can pull my weight despite my traffic currently being dismal  --post more post more post more-- and my patient readers growing impatient...  hey, look!  another cookie distraction!)

One more thing:  Jennifer from Playgroups are the Longest Blog Name in History also says that all of our posts don't have to be long and eloquent.  She encourages us to keep it quick and dirty. 

If anyone has a needlepoint that I could hang over my computer that says "Keep it quick and dirty," I'd love to have it. 

 

*Double Doozie photos via the flickr page:  turbo binge

(**Consider this fair warning:  if you visit turbo binge, you will immediately gain 5 pounds.  Man, I am hungry.  Starving.  mmmmmmm....)

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