Social Media and Writing

             I decided to write about social media a bit this week because I don’t know what to say! I’ve always said how untechie I am, although I do okay using computers to write with, and watching and communicating with the world over texts and emails and elsewhere on the internet. 

            But social media? Well, I am active on Facebook and am happy that I’ve been able to post pictures of myself and my dogs on my home page and also occasionally other times. I also add posts about things I like or that are important to me, such as what a particular day is known for—like, National Authors’ Day and National Chocolate Day and even National Love Your Red Hair Day. 

            I once was slightly active on Twitter, when it was still Twitter, and received emails for a while containing posts by some of my contacts, although that’s stopped. But those are pretty much the extent of my social media stuff. I know it would be better to put some of my books out there more on other sites, such as Instagram. Maybe someday. If I can figure out how to get more techie, post more pictures and videos and such. 

            Meanwhile, I’ll just keep on writing, and taking advantage of some of my other online means, such as being active on Writerspace.

Late

 Oops.  I just realized that I didn't write my blog.  I have a time when I usually write it, but between another day of Santa Ana winds, finding out the prognosis for one of the cats, and trying to rework the order of things at the end of my manuscript away from my computer, forgot.

The wind has stopped and hopefully the bad kind of ions are gone.  The election is over and at least there will be no more of the endless ads.

And now to finally finish my manuscript.

It's November Already

             And it’s been that way for nearly a week now, but my last blog here was still in October. In the meantime, Election Day has occurred. I’m not really going to talk about it here despite mentioning it but the time leading up to it was certainly unnerving at times. And now? Well, I’ve written about superstitions, and superstitious me is keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well. Now, let’s get away from politics and move on. 

            To what? Writing, of course. And yes, the story I’m currently writing has been moving along. My way of writing has remained somewhat different since I got my new desktop computer. I used to print everything out daily and edit both on paper and on the computer screen. Now, I’m still using a different printer since my old one is also broken, so I don’t print as much. That means my edits are all on the computer screen, and that seems to be working fine.

             And my new computer is still outside my office—partly because I don’t want my younger pup Roxie to visit me in the office with its clutter when I’m not watching her. She’ll get into everything! And I do want her to remain able to hang out with me.

             Hey, along with Election Day, Halloween is over. Looking forward to Thanksgiving soon! How about you?

 

           

Another Halloween

  I have been so intent on my manuscript, the days have gone by unnoticed.  I am letting other family members deal with Halloween.  I feel like kind of a Grinch about it, but Halloween has changed  from a couple of hours of princesses and pirates asking for candy to such a hoard that our street is blocked.  There are teenagers with no costumes carrying pillow cases, adults trick or treating along with their kids and entitled trick or treaters who fuss about what you offer them or simply try to help themselves to a handful of candy.

The number keeps growing too. No matter how much candy we get, we run out before the street has cleared.  I think we have about 400 little bags of gummy bears to give out.

I am hoping that the family and friends crew who are planning to sit on the front porch  to hand out the gummy bears shows up.  It has happened before--they all take off and I'm the last one standing to dole out the treats.  If that happens, I won't be a Grinch and will smile through the whirlwind of handing out the candy to the line of kids while wishing them all a Happy Halloween.

Personally, I am much more interested in Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead.  I like the idea of making altars for those who have passed on.  They are filled with color, flowers and food.