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I’m Still Here on WordPress, but on Medium too …

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I just like writing, about all kinds of different things, in a variety of genre … And if I can make a bit of money from my words, well, who wouldn’t want that? WordPress and Medium are both writing platforms, but with Medium a bit advantage is that you can get paid for what you write, easily.

I’ve been a member of Medium.com for a year now, and today I wrote this piece where I wrote about my first year. It may not be the best prose ever written, but if you’re interested in writing, and being paid for it, why not have a read.

And of course, if you like what I read, you can take a look at some of my other articles on Medium, where I seem to be posted quite a few things about our new dog, a big, black, beautiful boy, named Lenny, previously Lenny The Jet, until he retired from Greyhound Racing late last year.

So yes, here I am, still writing on WordPress, still connecting with my friends, Yay to making, and continuing connections! And an important thing I need to talk about here, on this blog of mine, my most important one, (I have others on the WordPress platform). And that important thing, is taking up a lot of my attention, when I’m not writing on Medium.

And what is that important thing? It is a new poetry collection, written by me, and to be published by Ginninderra Press. Woo hoo! Yay me! I feel this may be my best poetry collection yet, and I hope lots of people get themselves a copy, and love it too! And the title of this one is something that may attract the interest many, whether poetry lovers or not. The book’s title is also the title of the first poem in the collection, and I think it’s a fine poem too!

Yes, I am excited about this collection, in case you were wondering. And I’m thrilled that it will probably be launched at the Prince Albert Hotel on 29 May 2022, and I will also be the Guest poet there for the Gawler Poets At The Pub event, with the book launch taking the place of the usual workshop, then people can get some lunch and then will be the poetry reading, with me there as the guest poet. Fun times!

So yes, I am still writing here on this blog on WordPress, because I have people here who also follow me, and my words. Mix and match, and share the words, that’s what it’s all about. The more connections made, the bigger and better, things can be.

I love my writing world – I received the annual royalty payment I get for a book I wrote what feels like another life ago, but wasn’t really all that far back. I love royalties, and I love PLRs and ELRs as well, and I might be getting those later on in the year. Who says you can’t make money from being a writer?

Well, I don’t say that, I just say, don’t expect to be able to pay off your home loan with the money earned with your words, necessarily … Some people do manage to do it, in a variety of ways, break through into the big money, but the numbers for that are lower than the syllable count of a haiku poem! That’s seventeen syllables, in case you didn’t know …

Anyway, feel free to continue reading my words here or check out Medium. Maybe you’d like to join Medium, after you check it out, who knows. By the way, if you do read my articles on Medium as well as the one I’m writing about here, you’ll see at the end of each article, my other articles, somewhere to click to get email notification of my having written a new article, and also, super bonus, the spot where you can sign up to become a writer for Medium too! And I write super bonus, because if you sign up there, I will get money too, if you sign up and earn money!

Friends sharing the love! Haha. Or ignore all of that and keep on doing what you want to do, all good! It’s about the words, not the money!

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On Writing A New Poem

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New poems don’t happen every day, not for me, anyway. And since I started playing with a new platform, Medium.com, even fewer poems are being written by me …

But today, after something that happened, I wanted to write about it, and I wanted to make it a slightly funny little thing, and so I came up with a poem, and rather than writing the poem then at some stage deciding what to do with it, I wrote it directly onto my medium page.

This is the link to the poem, feel free to go there and have a read of it! https://kittycordo.medium.com/a-brand-new-poem-is-born-3e620c83e03

And after reading that poem, you can read more of what I’ve written over the five months since I joined Medium, and began posting articles there. I’ve been enjoying myself, and actually making money (tiny bits of it, anyway).

Making money, obviously isn’t why I write. If I wanted to make lots of money with my writing, there are other, far better ways to use writing as a money-making thing. I write what I want to write, what I feel like writing, not what someone tells me to write.

And today, what I felt like writing was a rhyming poem, about a mouse that may or may not really exist. A silly little poem, and one that might make me a silly little amount of money. If I earn more than two cents from this little rhyme, it will make me happy, because I wrote it without conscious thoughts of it being a great poem, just a poem I felt like writing, and it made me happy.

And being happy is a fine thing, isn’t it? Having mice in the house doesn’t make me happy, it makes me cross that these creatures invade my home. And having to trap the mice, because having them in the kitchen could lead to tummy upsets from the diseases the mice might leave behind, well that makes me sad as well.

Mice are such cute little things, with their whiskers, and their long skinny tails, and their big eyes, looking at me … But when I saw, or thought I saw, that mouse earlier today, I felt I had to write about it, and that is what I did.

That is a satisfying thing, to have had an idea, a mini writing project, and to complete it. And I might even make some money from it. That two cents I mentioned, may even become four cents. Or hope of hopes, could this poem go viral? (In good ways, not bad ones) I think sometimes about that time, when something I’ve written has ‘gone viral’, but I’ve never had anything look anything like doing that.

I suspect if I was writing about subjects other than my usual ones, something about marketing, or internet protocols, or such things, I’d have a better chance of my writing going viral, but they are not things I know a lot about, and I’m not interested in learning more about them, nor writing about them either.

So I’ll go on writing about creatures, and Nature, and other somewhat diverse things. And if I attract the interest of just one person, who likes what I’ve written, and leaves a comment, well that is enough. And if I can make two cents from a silly little poem, well that’s two cents I would never have had if I hadn’t posted that poem, on the Medium website here: https://kittycordo.medium.com/a-brand-new-poem-is-born-3e620c83e03