02 - If anyone knows of any memes, challenges, blog hops, let me know. I'm always looking for new ones. I like memes/challenges because they allow me to post something without me having to think too much on ideas. It might be lazy blogging but blogging is blogging.
Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies had a long llist of memes/challenges over here which consisted of book-related memes. The memes/challenges I know of are (not listed on Lisa's blog):
- Words for Wednesday - this month's the prompts are hosted at River's blog.
- Thursday 13 -
- Friday Writings -
03 - I don't know why but I keep procrastinating on my writings (and artworks). I have about maybe twenty or thirty stories/novels I had been working on but do I finish them? No. I am unable to. Sometimes I can eagerly work on them and then suddenly, I lost whatever motivation there was. Most times now I seem to be in a state of pauses. I have no idea what I'm waiting for. Perhaps for someone to club me on the head and demand I must finish them.
04 - I had my kobo ereader for over two years now and so far, it's working well but like everything else, it has its down side. One of the features that keeps driving me crazy is the font/text size setting. For example, book 1 can have normal text size (at least in terms of the size I preferred on my ereader) but if I open book 2, the text size can be huge and if I open book 3, the text size can be back to normal size and then book 4, it can be huge again. There is no individual text size preference for each book as the size is whatever you had set for the previous book which means it's like a surprise whenever I open a new book and there's like a 45% change of having to change the text size again. I guess this is one really great reason to read paper books instead.
05 - I had been using Firefox for many years and had been a decent browser but now it's just a messed-up browser where lots of odd things happens (such as zooming into a webpage for no reason) and all the updates just add new things I hate (such as grouping tabs and then coloring that group?). And every time I update, there again is another new feature I don't use. And after every update, there is another update. Why couldn't it update to the latest version when it updates? Why do have to keep updating every damn week?
06 - Closed my The memory of rain blog - that just means I make invisible all the footer elements and reverted all the post except for the one with the notice about the move. I thought of making it private but decide if people land on this page, they can go to my current blog. This is my way of moving on from that blog.
07 - I updated/changed a couple of things on my blog. I have changed my blog header again. A bad habit that I couldn't stop doing. I think changing your blog's header once in a while sort of freshen up the blog without doing too much. I didn't change it too much. Usually, I had my headers in cool hues for the summer and warmer hues for the winter but now I don't bother with that. I just have light but bright hues.
I have updated all the pages (links below my header.) I removed the a-z posts links into my introduction page (hello page) which I also updated. And I have updated the writing page which is where I listed with links all the fictions/short stories I posted on this blog. I don't think anyone uses that page but I like to update and organized it.
I have reluctantly removed Elephant's Child link off the bookmarks list (aka my blogroll). I've removed links all that time when someone hadn't updated in years but for someone who had passed away, it seemed odd, different. Why it should be odd to remove it? I don't know. The world always seems different somehow when someone passes away. Certainly, the blogosphere is different now.
What's on your mind these days?
#4: my first kindle, the keyboard one, had an option down in the keyboard area to change the font size of any book you opened which was very handy. My new kindle probably has a similar option but I haven't needed to find it.
ReplyDeleteRiver: Ereaders have options to change font size but I just wonder why text sizes are so different for ebooks.
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Jamie (jannghi.blogspot.com):
ReplyDeleteI miss Elephant's Child. I loved the comments she'd leave on my blog.
I, too, have been struggling to find blog ideas since the end of the A to Z.
Jamie: It's hard to find something to post whenever you have done so many blogging. Elephant's Child was always good at commenting.
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7. I too update my header and sidebars, often at or around the first of each month. But I have left EC's blog in all my cleanings, and I have decieded to let it stay as long as it's still there and not filled with spam comments, I still miss her very much, and return to her blog now and then.
ReplyDelete2. Blog memes - unabashed self promotion. I have the Colour26 where I set a new colour each month. The original idea was to post photos, drawings, stories, poems, ... anything containing that colour at least one Sunday a month, which I still do. Some use the colour in their Words for Wednesday (hosted by River) or for Poetry Monday, hosted by Messymimi and I in Diane @ On the Border's absence.
5 - Firefox ... yes, they are a more and more of a bother. It's possible to disable the grouping and colouring somewhere in the settings - I did, but they make it harder with every update. The best thing about Firefox is that you can say no thanks! to AI results in your search., This alone keeps me there.
Charlotte: 7 - I noticed your header and sidebar changes.
Delete2 - I forgot about your color meme. Sometimes I do try to use your colors in Words for Wed but I keep forgetting.
5 - I've recently noticed the AI option in Firefox which is one of the good features.
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It's exactly the same way for me with blogging. I have all kinds of ideas during the A-Z challenge when there's pressure on, but afterwards, I got nothing. Or whatever I have seems boring. I go in phases and sometimes I post more than others even with the boring stuff.
ReplyDeleteLive and Learn: I guess perhaps the pressure to post every day keeps your mind working? Who knows. I can't figure why.
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2. I have been doing old school memes. I have no idea what is new out there. Top Ten Tuesday forever!
ReplyDelete5. We have to update our browsers all the time because some people suck and find ways to get around security. I always update. I do Google stuff, so I use Chrome.
7. It's so sad when we lose a blogger, but it's even sadder when they are no longer alive. I remember when Rebel Mommy Book Blog (Grace) died. It still pains me to see a review on GR as she is still one of my friends.
Samantha: 2 - I have done Top Ten Tuesday in a long while. Perhaps I should start again.
Delete5 - I'm not a fan of Chrome so I don't use that.
7 - It's sad but I guess it's unavoidable.
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Sticking with creative pursuits- like blogging- isn't always easy, but worth it!
ReplyDeleteIf it might be helpful or encouraging, I could send you some of the prompt sheets I've made for my Journaling classes.
Speculator: I wish prompts help but most of the time they don't. But thanks for the offer.
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