is strange.
I have one posting (ecard i did) that has gone viral (over 7,000 likes and rebloggings and generally now picking up more people than ever each day).
but it's hard to get things going and keep them going there.
that one's swimming on its own now.
but i have so many that shoot up to fifty rebloggings and then suddenly stop dead.
i guess i know a few of the things you should do to make something pick up inertia.
but then some of those things seem so punitively boring.
it's really more fun when something begins spontaneously taking off on it own.
because it's like winning a scratch off ticket or something.
yeah i'm sure you can get a shitload of rebloggings and such if you just out and out steal other people's great stuff and post it.
but i only post my own writing and visuals.
the two or three times i capped someone else's visual work i was careful to credit the originator and specify what was my addition.
which is like the opposite of the tumblr ethic--which is steal and steal hard.
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What is your tumblr page url?
ReplyDeleteHey Didi! I swear to God you must be psychic because I was thinking about you this morning. Well, I guess it makes sense because I actually got myself to submit to three poetry journals before signing off this morning, and I want to thank you for that--because I didn't send anywhere for years but the kindness of your asking me that time and having me in your fine mag was actually one of the things that started me moving (oh so slowly) towards thinking about "trying again" after so long being negative and existing in poetry mostly as a bipolar negative presence (something I excoriate myself for daily now). I don't really feel ambitious but I do feel like trying to connect at the pace I can stand it. And for you I thank that. When you seemed to vanish, I thought, "Geez, I hope I didn't offend her with the sloppiness of my mind on this blog" and hoped that you didn't feel I let you down by not feeling able to keep "plugged in" with the avenues of expression you showed me were open--which I truly appreciated and appreciate. Plus I like your own poetry that I've read. And our private conversations meant a lot to me. I never felt a single ungenuine moment when conversing with you (which isn't something so common in this life--not saying it's a bad thing--just that people haven't different settings on their guards,etc.). But you must be psychic. My Tumblr is mostly just fun and games. I did try going in the literary direction but found out that it's such a youthful audience and such a visual one that I tended to start using more of my LOLz and ecards (humor is the main thing that keeps me alive, poetry too, but humor more if I told the truth!) If you're on there let me know and I'll follow you although you'll see I'm not on much so miss most of what goes across my dash. I want to be braver with the medium and try to create a successful Tumblr poetry blog but I know it's going to require me to combine visual elements very strongly and I'm thinking how to do that. Probably through the usual avenues of captioning, etc. Certainly it's a great forum for things like verbo-visual poetry or visual poetry. It's just a great thing in general...young kids doing queer activism at an age when I was terrified to speak the word "gay" in the 70s (at the same age). It's a different world and Tumblr is one place for people who don't know that to learn it fast. And, the good news, is it's a kinder one. I see very little cruelty in the young on Tumblr...it's definitely the anomaly rather than the rule. Lots of optimism...and lots of existentially smart kids...the whole YOLO phenom....You asked one simple question and I give you pages of testimony. Anyway, I'm at http://www.tumblr.com/blog/allkittehs. I hope all goes well with you and yours! I stopped in at one of your places online and I saw a message which sounded a bit as though you were "fending off the world." I worried that maybe you had given a little too much and felt a little drained. And I hoped that hadn't been the case. But I didn't know how to say that. So I say it here. xo
ReplyDeleteThe show must go on regardless of how we feel...
ReplyDeleteDidi, I know you're right. But blogging is about as much show as I can manage right now. I once saw a blind cat running about in traffic (I couldn't get to it). Inside, I can keep my sight. Outside, I go blind.
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