Bloggiesta: Day 3

Well, I've gotten caught up on Poetry Log postings. I'm happy about that.

I've decided on a twitter strategy:
1. One the weekend find 3-5 lines of poetry to tweet during the week.
2. Post a link to Poetry Log when I've posted something interesting there.
3. Post links to hubpages lit articles.
4. Post a link to my facebook page once a week.

And I've come up with a once-a-week strategy for my facebook page as well:
1. On status, put links to any poetry-related postings I've done for the week.
2. In discussion, put a synopsis of the week's Poetry Log books, including:
A. a general statement about the 5 books
B. for each: Day, date, title, author
C. a statement inviting people to view the posts and comment

One thing I have continued to procrastinate on is signing up on weebly. Setting that up just seems like too big a project right now. I want to move Poetry Log there eventually but for now, I'm stuck doing something rather predictable and one-dimensional and might as well keep it on wordpress. I also want to create an ESL website on weebly and this I need to think through a little better before jumping in.

Both my twitter and my facebook strategies necessitate employing tiny url, so that's a goal that has grown out of this Bloggiesta.

In general, I'm happy with what I've accomplished with the time I've had and I look forward to the next Bloggiesta. I hope by that time I'm ready to tackle some of the more technical aspects of spicing up my blogs.

Bloggiesta: Day 2

Well, I can't call myself proud. I've let too many distractions distract me. However, I am plugging away at the goals.

One thing I've discovered is that writing a critical assessment of a book of poetry really takes me a lot of time. This may be the most important self-knowledge I come away with from Bloggiesta. I'm not one to whip things out. I'll be lucky to complete one critical blog a week. I can hope that the repeated mental exercise will eventually make it easier and quicker, but I'm not going to be winning any races at this or saturating hubpages and thus create a decent residual income in a year. I need to accept my inner turtleness and accept my limitations.

But I needn't necessarily accept defeat. I'm a fan of individual poems and writing about individual poems may be the best way for me add to my blog consistency. Maybe write on a larger work once a week and a single poem once a week. I'll have to play with the mix to see what works.

For tomorrow, my main project is to get caught up on Poetry Log (poetrylog.wordpress.com). By caught up, I mean scheduling posts through the rest of this coming week. I've got three more to go. These are smaller, easier posts than those mentioned above because I'm assessing whether the books belong in our library rather than giving a general review of them. Most of my other goals for bloggiesta are ones regarding thinking about what I want to do, planning rather than writing, so perhaps I'll come close to meeting my goals despite getting a slow start.

Bloggiesta Goals

I'm so grateful for the excuse to concentrate on my blogging efforts. For instance, I forgot I even set up this particular blog space. Today, Friday, I have to focus on paying work. But I've come up with a few goals to concentrate on this weekend (not in any particular order).

Finish first Hubpages article and post

Decided what I want to do on facebook AND make first post of that type AND add this action to schedules

Create a Weebly free account

Decide if I want to use my blogger blogs at all. For photos? For more personal things?

Rethink my use of twitter

Get caught up on Poetry Log (my primary blog) through the end of the coming week (assuming the library is open today and I manage to get out to it for more books)

Respond to a request for a review that came in yesterday