Today I received a book in the mail – a poetry collection, with one of my poem in it. Hooray! and I also received notification that a poem of mine is going to be in an online journal, The Crow. And after having no internet since yesterday afternoon, I was thrilled when we finally got internet back this afternoon!
I don’t know why our internet connection fell down, or strolled away, but was glad that the people at Aussie Broadband, were able to help in getting things up and going again. With the current world of Covid-19 restrictions, and being ‘locked down’ at home, keeping connected feels even more important.
I managed without the internet for those hours, but gosh, I hope that doesn’t happen too often, I like to be able to get connected! A blogger without the internet? It can’t happen! I took the opportunity today in sending an email, to get the word out about the Covid-19 anthology I’m editing too, and the result should be good.
So submissions for ‘Plague Invasion – Creative Writing Responses to Covid-19, are coming in, and I’m putting them into the document, and sending out requests for ‘writer bios’ to go into the back of the book from all of those whose words are accepted. Words in, words out – it’s an ongoing thing. And of course I will be writing some more of my own words for this anthology too.
And of course, getting the word out about this project is important, and that’s why I’ve been promoting it so heavily on my blog here. This is an important project, one of historical note, and in ten years time, we will remember that mad time when there was such a big run on toilet paper, so that the supermarkets had to limit how many toilet rolls a shopper could purchase …
Mad times for sure, and it isn’t over yet. I’m still looking for more writing, in particular prose, and would love to have prose from sports minded people, lamenting the lack of sport, or from medical people talking about the dangerous times they had, working up close and personal with this killer virus, and hoping they didn’t catch it themselves.
Or political people form any of the three level, local, state or federal, something from some people there would be a great addition to the anthology. Time for me to get the word out to the politicians and mayors I know, perhaps …
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congrats on your published works!!! 🙂
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Thank you Wendi. I love books, and making my own is exciting, and I love it!
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🙂 that makes is even more special….
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congratulations Carolyn on having a few of your own poems published 🙂
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Thank you John. I know one reason for not getting my own words published is that I so rarely get around to sending things off for consideration. But I’m getting better at doing now, and I remember at the end of last year, I decided the year 2020 was going to be a year of vision, and doing better things with my words. Being published is obviously one of those visionary things to do, getting better known gives me better feelings about my ability with my words.
And the better known I am, the further I can reach out, and connect with others, in a variety of ways. With the bushfires and now Covid-19 issues, it’s been a very strange year, but still a year of vision for sure. This year I am stepping into my role as an editor more, and realising just how much I love playing and working with words.
And today, an awesome thing happened, further reinforcing my credibility with words, and writing – a person I don’t know complimented me on my correct use of the ellipsis! Isn’t that a wonderful thing, to be recognised for such a thing. I adore ellipses, and commas too! The ellipsis may in fact be my favourite punctuation mark.
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