Kurt Brindley's Blog, page 137

“PRO” TIP: HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR WRITING RESOURCES — GUARANTEED! (Quick Tip #1)

Looking for a way to stay socially engaged with your desperate fans (i.e., family and friends) without having to tab out of your WordPress edit box for fear of losing your poetic mojo?

Well…how about using your Site Title’s tagline as a status update?

I know, right…

For example, while I was writing this post I also had one eye on the television — it’s Tuesday, which of course means, The Voice.

But I really really wanted to get this “Pro” Tip out to my desperate fans (yes, yes, you’re right…i.e., my family and friends).

And I really really also wanted to remind my mother (who, no lie*, refreshes this site at least once every 5 minutes to see if I’ve released yet another Nobel Prize-worthy post (which to her, of course, is everything I write, which, of course, also means this post that you’re now reading is serious literary genius…to Mom) to watch The Voice because she missed it last week, which meant she had to facebook me like crazy to find out in excruciating detail exactly what silly antics silly Adam and silly Blake were up. Which meant, of course, I had to tab out to facebook to give her the lengthy lowdown in excruciating lengthy lowdown detail via facebook’s less-than-user-friendly messenger chat thingy.

Which, of course, meant…I wasn’t writing.

Well…I was writing to Mom, but you know what I mean…

I wasn’t writing writing.

But tonight…

No worries whatsoever.

Because tonight, I simply updated my Site Title’s tagline to read: Busy watching The Voice…Mom!

And life was good…

Mom saw my tagline status update right upon the completion of her 20:00 hour page refresh of my site and was able to watch for herself all the silly antics silly Adam and silly Blake were up to.

And I got to keep one eye on the television (okay, I admit it…I kinda have a bit of man crush on those guys just like everyone else) while my fingers were busy plucking the literary magic (at least by Mom’s measure) out of the keyboard.

Everyone’s happy…

I’m happy…

All my desperate fan’s are happy…

And, most importantly, Mom is happy (with visions of silly Adam and silly Blake dancing in her head (yeah, I better not take that illustration any further)).

So if you want to keep both the Writing Gods and your Desperate Fans happy at the same time…

Go to your Dashboard, click on Appearance, then click on Customize. You then will see a blue bar with a set of options take over the extreme right side of your screen. You’ll need to plow your cursor on over to the options in blue and click on Site Title. A black window will swing out where you can input both your Site Title and a Tagline. All you have to do now is fill that Tagline in with your current status (recommend keeping it both witty and pithy), click Save, and then click X and…

Just like that, you have your very own WordPress Status Update.

All without every having to tab away from your poetic mojo.

I know, right…

(Yes, I know there are other, potentially simpler, ways to update the tagline, but I wanted to leave us something to discuss in the Comments afterwards.)

And now all your desperate fans will always know what their most favorite Author in the world is doing.

And they will all love you forever*.

And they will all flock to Amazon to buy all of your books*.

Even that bizarre manifesto that started out as an email chain letter*.

And for each book they buy they all will write multitudes of raving five-star reviews*.

And all this magic will come about all because of the humble yet oh so versatile friendly little Tagline.

Thank you, Tagline.

Thank you, indeed.

 

 

*it’s a lie

 

What’s in your tagline?

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Filed under: "Pro" Tips Tagged: Adam Levine, authors, Blake Shelton, books, Dashboard, Pro Tips, publishing, taglines, The Voice, WordPress, writing, writing resources, writing tips

Filthy, Nasty Butts!

I think people’s butts are great.

I mean, at least for sitting down.

It’s just all those filthy, nasty butts I hate

That are littered all over the ground!



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From Poem Man.

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: bad habits, books, butts, children's poetry, cigarettes, drawing, poems, poetry, poetry books, rhymes, rhyming poems, smoking, writing

The Mind Is Like The Sky

Clouded

Polluted

Strewn with Soot and Sand

Contrails Scattered in their Run

Ne’er the Eye can See the Sun

Tho’ when Damning Winds

Blow Clear Remorse

Then Fade Away to Silence

Serenity

Clarity

Tears of Sun to Whet the Eye

Vision Eternal Lights the Sky

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: contrails, damning winds, eye, poems, poetry, pollution, remorse, sky, spirituality, Tao Te Ching, vision eternal, writing

You know, chances are pretty good that…

I am frantically doing a frantic Update Edit right now in real time as you read this to frantically correct the mistake that I swear to the Almighty Universal Power Often Referred To In English, At Least In Many Of The Western “First World” Countries, As God wasn’t there when I pressed Publish just one second ago…

 

 

#amwriting

#amediting

#amconfused

Filed under: Humor Tagged: editing, edits, God, grammar, grammar humor, humor, WordPress, writing, writing humor

Promises, Promises

Filed under: Photography Tagged: art, clouds, GIMP, God, graphic art, graphic design, nature, photography, pictures, promises, rainbows, spirituality, the heavens

Wiggle

I don’t want to write bestsellers,

Or be president of this great land.

I don’t want to paint like Picasso,

Or sing in a rock and roll band.

I don’t want to star in the movies,

Or do anything that brings wealth or fame.

I don’t want to be an overpaid athlete

Of any professional game.

What I do want you might think is silly.

In fact, it might even make you giggle.

There’s only one thing in life I want. . .

And that’s to learn how to make my ears wiggle.

~~~~

From Poem Man.

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: art, bestsellers, children, children's poetry, drawing, Picasso, poems, poetry, rhymes, rhyming poems, rhyming poetry, rock and roll band, sports, writing

A Poem for the Pained and Brokenhearted

 

 

forge forever on

tho’ dark death rewards us all

forge forever on

 

 

Filed under: 俳句 Tagged: #iamthatiam, depression, haiku, health, hope, illness, Poem, poetry, relationship, resilience, writing, 俳句

A Story For the Misaligned, Sailor Or Otherwise

A story for us all

From the Dedication Page:

This book is dedicated to anyone — regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, gender and all its breathless facets, sexual orientation, non-sexual orientation, sexual non-orientation, spirituality or lack thereof, religion or lack thereof, nationality or lack thereof, political affiliation or lack thereof, occupation or lack thereof, education or lack thereof, good looks or lack thereof, height, weight, shoe size, or any other ways we have identified and implemented as means to compare and contrast and separate and segregate and relegate and rank ourselves as humans — who has ever once regretted his or her or their identity.

This book, then, is for us, all of us.

Learn more here.

Filed under: Literary Tagged: abuse, authors, books, DADT, fiction, homosexuals, Japan, LGBT, literature, navy, perceptions, sexual orientation, stereotypes, writing

Poem Man

Come hither all ye children

And gather round,

For the Poem Man cometh

To your quaint town.

He’s bringing the most magical, beautiful,

Spectacular sounds…

Sounds that you may have never heard before.

He has the sounds of pinks and yellows

And midnight blues.

You’ll hear rainbows and gumdrops

And morning dew.

Come hither sweet children,

Bring your parents too,

To hear the oceans converse with the shores.

Look, yonder cometh he

From the valley below.

Can you see on his shoulder

His talking, orange crow?

Make haste sweet children.

Get ready for the show,

For the time is drawing near.

He carries his poems

In a large, burlap sack.

Doesn’t it look heavy

Upon his broad back?

In it, not a rhyme is missing—

Not a riddle does it lack.

Be still now sweet children for the Poem Man is here.

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Well, since the poem Butter was reasonably well-received a day or two ago, it inspired me to create a Poem Man page where I’ve included scans of the original book cover and introduction, as well as a Table of Contents listing all the poems and links to the ones that I’ve already shared online. You can find the new page under the Poetry heading at the top of the page, or you can just click here.

Enjoy!

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: art, authors, children's poetry, drawing, Poem Man, poems, poets, rhymes, rhyming poetry, writers, writing

Cancer isn’t pink…and neither is football

Filed under: Cancer, Culture Tagged: breast cancer, cancer, culture, football, health, humor, leukemia, men's issues, NFL, sexism, society, television, women's issues