Tuesday 11 September 2012

Stanzas Required



11\9\2012: Anniversary of 9\11! Just been posting poems on my poetry blog and "Hello Poetry". I noticed whilst doing this that many of my verses need breaking up into stanzas. Whilst posting on Triond first I have avoided stanzas because they don't "take" there. But those poems need them! Will mean a lot of editing and saving on memory stick etc. but what a poet's gotta do.... Am typing this live onto the blog here by the way. That's all I've got to say. Lunch beckons. Out.

19.55: England Kick Off against Ukraine in 5 minutes. Only minutes ago I started my new footie blog! Do visit it!

To save you time:      http://paulbuttersfootieblog.blogspot.co.uk/

12\9: I posted 3 poems onto Hello Poetry recently. The Views to press: "Now" 18, "Mother Nature" 20, "New Eden" 208! Why has "New Eden" done so much better than the others? Not the foggiest. Is it the word "Eden"???

21.35: There, I've spent hours going through my recent poems and "forming" stanzas, i.e. spacing! SILLY ME: when I paste here of course, each poem is scrunched up so you have to respace (new word? Nah it's quoted from Collins Dictionary but underlined by Chrome)! It's even worse on Triond: you lose those stanzas whatever you do! However, I was right in thinking I needed more stanzas. Now have lots of poems to recopy onto my PC. Job done. Phew!

More:      http://authspot.com/poetry/open-your-mind-3/

http://authspot.com/poetry/dogs-19/

17\9 - On my PC instead of laptop for a change. "A Poem" 231 Views now, "New Eden" 229! Close. Love a race!

18\9 - "New Eden" is top of the pops now, on 232! "A Poem" remains on 231.

19.35 - Forgot what I was going to say now. Good job I've kept my Google Chrome Icon - went onto Internet Explorer and then found I couldn't edit here as I am now. Also cannot see some features on "Hello Poetry" though can still access. Can see myself swapping from browser to browser for certain sites and tasks. Computers!

20\9 - Yep, Digg or whatever it's called will not respond on IE either. But will it respond on Chrome?

Another post:

http://sportales.com/soccer/champions-league-begins/

(Blogger would not take this link from IE btw. It just showed it in black letters. And Digg DID take a share on Chrome but not IE!) Oh and yesterday I successfully flagged my first article for plagiarism on Triond. Await another flagging too. One of them copied and pasted another Triond article!

21\9 (Just after midnight):      Yes that became TWO Flags. My Viewing percentages on Triond have completely changed now. The China figure has gone from about 33 to 3%! Percentages - UK 59, USA 28, Germany 4, China 3, Australia 3, Canada 2, India 2.

23\9:      On Triond, for once most of my views are from Google now! 59% are from the UK as reported above!

More:

http://sportales.com/soccer/john-terry-fiasco/

Just checked - looks like I started posting on Poemhunter on 11\1\2007. A bit of a Veteran, eh?

30\9 - That's odd. My poem "Mirror, Mirror" has had 303 Views all of a sudden. Something to do with the image of a mirror I used? God only knows. I see I can update on IE when on my home PC (Dell).

Today I notice that on "Hello Poetry" my poem "Circles" has suddenly shot up to 252 Views, just behind "New Eden" on 253! Seems like one new view can sometimes lead to a surge! "A Poem" is thus relegated to third place on my list now!

1\10 - "Circles" is now tops, on 258.

2\10 - My Poetry Blog has had 800 Views now. Thankyou everyone. "Mirror Mirror" post has received 531 Views (so the surge continues). Most Views are from Google. Those unwanted Russian Views have gone.

On Triond, my Google Views have suddenly gone way down. My Chinese Views are down to 3%. Most of my Views are from within Triond. UK dominated again with USA improving.

More:      http://beyondjane.com/relationships/dating/single/

http://webupon.com/web-talk/ella-henderson-for-x-factor-queen/

Saturday 8 September 2012

I am a Usain Bolt not a Haile Gebrselassie


(Picture: Usain Bolt from Google Images)

(Picture is of my two tone "Ladies of the Night")

Just posted this on "Writer's Hangout", Linkedin:


"My longest story to date is 13880 words: "Completely Lost" - posted on the Authonomy site. Frankly it just goes in circles - like about 7 short stories rolled into one. Looks like I'm a Usain Bolt, not a Paula Radcliffe, when writing stories. Just Love producing new ideas.... Love to write."

Yep. In short. That's me. What about you?

Oh - "Completely Lost":

http://www.authonomy.com/books/8719/completely-lost-/

WARNING: Tried this link (to my story on Authonomy). When reading any book I found I couldn't scroll down in the normal way. Using "Page Down" did work however. Have reported this glitch.

17.00:   Just had a salutary lesson. Clicked on a link in my stats to see where some of my views were from. Turned out to be a Russian Porn site that had scammed me. The page was blank but Google led me to a host of people who had also been scammed. THIS blog explains well:

http://forgetmenot525.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/a-question-what-is-pregolom.html

Earlier I read on Triond that everyone was getting lots of Views from China, from PLAGIARISTS! Well I wanted more views, but be careful what you wish for!

17.35 - Just Changed my URL as above using Settings: Basic. That should put those Russians off a bit.

9\9\12: Just got back home to a message from "Hello Poetry": says my poem "New Eden" (popped on there today) is "Trending". Checked: yes it's on the "Trending" list there with 127 Views! That should be from the many poets there, and their associates. Now to check the Comments.

10\9: 151 just after midnight! Nice comments etc. and more friends. Got 14 Views on Triond lol. Says it all. Got 5 more poems look suitable for "Hello Poetry"...

10\9 (My friend Paula's birthday): My top Viewed poems on "Hello Poetry":
1) A Poem (222), 2) New Eden (181), 3) Frenetic Genetics (145), 4) Girl Eyes (127), 5) Mirror Mirror (122), 6) Excitement (119). Of these I rate "Excitement" highest but.... Do feel free to give your opinion. I only Wrote them!

If you like, start here:  http://hellopoetry.com/poem/excitement-7/

Or if you prefer, go onto my poetry blog (most of them are there).

My latest Triond blog posting:

http://sportales.com/soccer/association-football-early-season-report-2012-13/