“Giving up is not an option when this world keeps turning, regardless.”
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For Linda G Hill’s #1LinderWeds challenge
12 Dec 2018 26 Comments
in #onelinerwednesday Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, one liner challenge, One Liner Wednesday, Quote
“Giving up is not an option when this world keeps turning, regardless.”
Ritu

For Linda G Hill’s #1LinderWeds challenge
12 Dec 2018 37 Comments
in Blogmas 2018 Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Blogmas, Blogmas 2018, Your Voice
Day 12

Find your voice.
This is quite simple.
Don’t attempt to copy someone else’s style.
Be you.
Find your niche – or don’t (I never did!) but always find your voice.
Your voice gives your blog it’s personality, especially if it is a blog that is not connected to a business.
Your blog should be able to allow your creativity to shine, be it poetry or fiction, ramblings or recipes.
Your style is what will make your blog readable, what will attract like-minded bloggers to your site. Something that is identifiably YOU!

11 Dec 2018 29 Comments
in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Colleen Chesebro, tanka
It’s Tuesday, and that means Colleen’s Tanka Challenge! Of course, just providing a couple of words would be far too simple, so we have twowords, yes, but we can’t use them! Only synonyms allowed!
A tanka for this week…
Endeavour to become
A true individual
Not a follower
Seek to become a person
Who leads by great example
Ritu 2018
11 Dec 2018 51 Comments
in Blogmas 2018 Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Blogmas, Blogmas 2018, Responding
Day 11

Respond!
One of my biggest niggles, when a blogger whose post I have commented on doesn’t respond – AT ALL!
Going back to my last couple of tips, quality interaction is so important, when building up a solid reader base, and if you don’t bother answering or at least acknowledging the comments left on your post, it’s highly unlikely you will be attracting many followers.
The conversations I have had via my comments, or on other blogs, have strengthened my blog relationships with my followers, allowing me to get to know them as well as them to know me too.
That human touch makes all the difference.
An appreciation to those leaving thoughts on your words.
I read, and write A LOT.
If you are following me, you know that.
My saviour is my WP app on my phone.
When I have a moment, I log in, and browse my reader and all my notifications, attempting to answer them all as the day unfolds.
If I know I can’t give all my attention to the comments then, I wait until the end of the day, and spend time responding, genuinely, to all who bless me with a visit to my blog, and leave comments.
Some schedule their time to respond weekly.
It’s up to you, but make sure you do!

10 Dec 2018 24 Comments
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge, Senryu
It’s that time of the week Peeps, and this time, Ronovan has given us the following words:
I am sorry… I couldn’t write a true haiku for this, nature did not comply, so a senryu instead, with a little twist, as I rue my weight gain!
Cup runneth over
As does my excess blubber
Goal weight not achieved!
Ritu 2018
