Floating Feathers – Arnot Hill Park
Even by my standards this isn’t much time – particularly as it often takes longer than that to add photos and tags.
I have to confess that even after five years I haven’t got the hang of tags. I did once read something about them, as I once read about SEO, but it goes in one ear and goes out through the other.
It just took three minutes to write 62 words. Based on that speed I could write a decent length novel in a couple of weeks, even allowing time for sleeping and eating.
Makes you wonder what writers do with their time doesn’t it?
Five minutes gone – time to post.
I haven’t got to grips with SEOs either. Not that I have particularly tried.
These days, as I am sure you will have noticed, data protection means we can’t often see the words or phrases put into search engines which lead people to our blogs us. However, from what I have seen, they can get to my site with phrases which just about loosely match something I’ve written. There might even be spelling mistakes and bad grammar in the search terms, which I’m convinced weren’t in my original. I doubt very much any lessons in SEOs would cover this as a strategy for more effective tagging.
There is a search strategy for ebay which uses common mis-spellings. I have tried SEO but I prefer writing. 🙂
Now, I think I don’t know what SEO is at all – I thought whether you use SEO or not you had to write. Or do you mean, SEO is unimportant in your life because your reason for blogging is writing rather than marketing your writing?
Yes, sorry I wasn’t clear. Yes, I prefer to write about my day rather than worry about key words and all that stuff.
Seems a lot more enjoyable
It is. 🙂
Yes, better scones would be a worthwhile cause. I feel a political movement coming on – slogan – Improve the small things. I imagine the crusading zeal will decline overnight.
Have you ever thought of joining the Monster Raving Loony Party? – the original, not all the current imposters.
I did once contemplate it, but I wasn’t enough of a loony in those days. 🙂
🙂
That is a beautiful scene with feathers on calm water. It brought to mind a poem by Wendell Berry.
https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-peace-of-wild-things/
I couldn’t make the link work but hunted it down here – https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-peace-of-wild-things/
Lovely poem, and glad anything I do could make you think of it.
Glad you found the poem. It is beautiful. I have his wikipedia link here. I think you and Julia would enjoy his works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry
I read several more last night. Very moving, yet very simple.
It is your lack of tags that means that you are not a world renowned influencer. If only the world knew what it was missing!
I feel that the world is probably a better place without my influence. My plans, which include harvesting the hot air from Westminster as a renewable energy source, forcing children to learn at gunpoint, and a rigorous cull of “celebrities” and reality TV “stars” are never likely to gain mainstream acceptance.
We would get better scones though.