Me the Hobby Writer

(Picture Credit - Publishing Guru)


(As posted on Triond 3\12\12 and on VoicesNet today12\5\2013)

Why HOBBY writer? Well I think that best describes me right now. I am quite comfortable with that these days. Let me tell you a story...

Do let me tell you a story. After all, telling stories is my forte. Well, one of them.

I write. More accurately I type. With one finger but at a fair speed. Be glad I no longer write: my handwriting is almost indecipherable at best. So, I see myself as a “Writer”. My Dad’s folk came from Staffordshire but no, I am not closely related to my namesake Paul Butters, who wrote a book about Stafford.

Both my parents did work (in Leeds) in an office for a while, before being directed into more practical, more lucrative trades. Dad was a foundry worker. Mum was a woollen mill worker then worked in tailoring before becoming a garden nursery worker (in World War Two). In fact, Mum started on the mill “floor” but was moved into the office to help with the accounts. Unlike me, Mum was great with arithmetic and Dad had beautiful handwriting.

On my Mum’s side (Haresigns and Gledhills) I have a half cousin who is a professional journalist. Just checked with her over the phone: one of my ancestors was a headteacher, and two of them were highly religious. My writing and “philosophical” DNA perhaps came from them.

At school I was a very slow starter to be honest. I was in the bottom band for three out of four primary school years. As a child I was very quiet, sensitive and often isolated. Maybe a touch of Autism there. Almost inevitably I “Failed” the dreaded Eleven Plus and was sent to County Secondary School. But there I was placed in the “G” stream (for GCE) and crammed for academic success! Five “O Levels” saw me qualify for a place at our local Grammar School Sixth Form to study A Level English Literature, History and Geography.

Even at Primary School, however, the teachers lavished me with praise for my “colourful, imaginative Compositions”. At that time my parents bought me a good set of encyclopaedias: so even as a junior I knew all about the solar system and the cosmos. In 1965 I shockingly (being an Agnostic even then) won the “Religious Education” prize at secondary school and bought a collection of the short stories of HG Wells. Science Fiction was my first literary love from a very early age.

At Grammar School we were taught that the “world was our oyster” so long as we applied ourselves to our studies. Their idea of Careers Education was the “Compendium of University Entrance Requirements”. Not encouraging for me: in those days most English courses demanded Latin O Level and top notch A Levels! As I flunked my A Levels I dutifully went to a teacher training college and got a Cert. Ed. Followed by a one year B.Ed.

Grammar School drummed it into us that we could do anything, so for years I believed I could write a novel any time I liked and get it published. I couldn’t have been more wrong of course.

Some of the most famous authors like JK Rowling have been rejected by many agents, let alone publishers, before making that big break. In the 1990s I had some poems and the odd story published by “Forward Press” and other now defunct small publishers, but that’s as far as it went for me.

The truth is that Triond\VoicesNet\Poemhunter and other publishing-platform websites have collectively been a Godsend. I cannot claim to be a “professional writer”, nor would I want to anymore. Even a “Freelancer” has to strictly speaking work for specific clients, under some sort of contract. No, I now see myself as a “Hobby Writer”, a free spirit who writes now and then for some pocket money and a little praise (and discussion with other writers).

My strengths remain the same as ever: a fertile imagination combined with a knack for story-writing, dialogue and using good words.

My old Careers Guidance tutor John Malkin (Trent) said never say “weakness”, always use the word “limitation”. So my main limitation, in hindsight is that I did not and do not Read enough. I am an extremely slow reader, which has its advantages with poetry, but that’s no excuse. My other Achilles heel is the lack of a sustained Work Ethic. When I get interested I’m fine but... Maybe I specialised in Science Fiction too early too.

Triond\VoicesNet suits me: I can indulge in writing as a hobby, and remain unchained. I can blog my stuff too once it’s had a run on such sites. Those old unrealistic expectations have gone. However, I suspect there are many writers about who still carry some unrealistic dreams. There’s a thought.

Paul Butters

More works:      http://authspot.com/poetry/whats-god-got-to-do-with-it/

http://authspot.com/poetry/paradise-road-2/

Update 19\5\13: "Beat the Bullies" has now had 5160 Views on Triond. But "Champion" on VoicesNet has 6221 and "Mirror, Mirror" (my blog) has 7051.

More work:      http://authspot.com/short-stories/marinia-seven/

Update 2\6\13: "Beat Bullies" 6012. "Champion": 6418.

4\6: 101 Views on Triond for my new story "Marinia Seven". That's great going for a story. Happy days.

More work: http://webupon.com/search-engines/google-it-2/

10\6: 66 Views to press for my blog "Google It". Good going. 107 for Marinia Seven. By the way, most of my Triond Views are from the USA these days, and then from TURKEY! Don't know where That came from. UK is in third place now. USSR features too. The USA dominance seems to be from "Bullies".

18.10: 115 V now for "Google It"! 6532 for "Bullies". 6481 for "Champion" on VoicesNet. "Mirror, Mirror" is 7060 on my poetry blogger blog.

11\6\13: 191 Views for "Google It" now. Not listed in "Top Ten" but still good.

14\6: 1078 Views on Triond this month but has now slowed. Maybe time to write again.

24\6: Beat Bullies has hit the top on 7077 Views. Mirror, Mirror has had 7068 Views.

More Work:      http://socyberty.com/issues/how-to-live-3/

http://authspot.com/poetry/no-now/

14\7: OMG! See that all my Triond links here are "403 Forbidden"!!! Anybody know why? Is it possible to ask Blogger or Google? If so, how?

Let's try a link to VoicesNet:

http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=138346

Ah, as I type, that link is okay. So it's TRIOND then. MMM.

Let's try "Poemhunter":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/swirling-snow/

Yep, that's okay too.

15\7: 63 Views for  "No Now" - that's great for a poem. Am getting good Viewing figures on Triond these days.

More Work (In the hope that it will be unblocked eventually):

http://healthmad.com/mental-health/how-to-be-assertive/

More:      http://socyberty.com/work/live-on-triond-to-stanza-or-not-to-stanza/

(Have explained to Nathan at Triond that this 403 Forbidden thing persists).

26\7: "Beat the Bullies" has now had 7793 Views.

7\8: "Bullies" has reached 8065 Views.

My Best Viewed Pieces

(Photo Credit - Macmyth)

Some of my pieces of writing have Viewed quite well these last few months. Here are some highlights (with abbreviated titles):

Triond: (2\3\13) Man U V Real (47 in 2 days), (8\2) Colonisation Earth Pt 3 (28 – good for a story), (22\1) Fergie (427), (21\1) Triond Tragedy (817), (21\12\12) Cheating at TT (339), (19\11) Beat Bullies (552), (7\10) Listen (661), (3\10) Single (827), (13\8) Olympics (113), (7\8) Banned (148). All but one of these were blogs\articles.

Voicesnet: Top 5 (from my author page): Champion (5931), Seashore (1166), Our Universe (1132), Look Up! (749), Dog’s Life (732) – all poems.

Recents: Ping Pong World Ch (103), Fergie (56), Single 2 (72), Censored (224), Lady Blantyre (337), Lennox Dog (191), Lifism (153), Internet Trolls (554), Serenity (story) (485), Young Chickens (poem) (693 – 6^th top on list), Circles (poem) (445).

My Blogs: Mirror, Mirror (poem) (7021), Cyberspace (poem) (993), My Triond Top 20 (blog) (43), Triond Forum Spoof (play) 165, Nemesis V Clee Sports H (blog) (34).

Hello Poetry: Circles (717), Frenetic Genetics (497), Excitement (492), Mother Nature (395), New Eden (366), A Poem (331).

Conclusions: There aren’t any really. Sure, blogs or articles get Views more readily, particularly if you find a popular topic. Sadly some have noted that “hate” pieces View well. Some on Triond write about Obama a lot...

My poem “New Eden” went viral on “Hello Poetry” but later four poems posted mainly earlier overtook it. Knock-on effects like that are quite common.

“Champion” went viral on Voicesnet but I’ve no idea why. Likewise “Mirror, Mirror” Viewed massively on my own blog, maybe because of some connection with “Snow White”. Perhaps many folk want to buy a mirror!  

As I’ve said before, on Triond it now helps if you get in the top ten on Sportales or some similar site – that gets you Lots of Views.

Unfortunately stories – my forte – do worst of all for attracting Views. Blogs are simply the best. But don’t worry. I remain convinced that it is quality that counts. Above all, I’ll always please myself. Over and Out.

More 9\3\13:

Knoji: "Which Planets for Life" (1404), "Spectral Types" (1283), "How Buy TT Bat" (1376), "TT Techniques" (1135). Grand Total - (5,200 V).

12\3\13: NB on Triond my "Beat the Bullies" piece keeps Viewing well, though no longer in the "top ten". 693 Views to press - about a hundred in a few days. Must be a useful topic to people. Keep beating those bullies!

Paul Butters


More pieces:

   http://socyberty.com/history/britain-is-too-soft/

http://authspot.com/short-stories/marooned-in-space/

http://authspot.com/short-stories/ping-pong-passion-one-2/

10\4\13 STOP PRESS: "Beat the Bullies" continues to View well on Triond! On 8\4 it had received 1383 V. Today the piece stood at 1588. 1395 Beyond Jane Views for my work recently: dominating my referring site stats. 77% of my Views are currently from the USA, with only 11% from the UK. Bullying must be a big issue in America. Nuff Said. Out.

18\4\13: "Beat Bullies" has now had 2552 Views. Healthy figures most days still.

23\4: "Beat the Bullies" - 3012 V (100 today!).

More:      http://authspot.com/poetry/any-world/

5\5: "BB" - 3887 V. Current Triond breakdown - 53% USA, 10% UK, 10% Turkey(!), 8% Germany and Russia, 5% Italy(!) and Canada.

9\5: BB - 4295.
    

Writing Tips - Type Inner Speech in Italics etcetera

(Picture Credit - Computer2 by Psuca)

Early in the new year I read some articles on self-editing, on a Linkedin Writer Group forum. One piece explained how you type inner speech in italics. You live and learn.

As a Writer in English, it goes without saying that a mastery of English is most useful to the writer. Fortunately I have quite a good eye for spelling and my grasp of basic sentence-writing is okay. Using words such as okay might be a bit naughty, but at least I usually Notice when I’m being naughty. That capital ‘n’ is a tad mischievous too, but hey... The spell-checker on “Word” usually makes me toe the line, though some of their grammatical “rules” I frankly find sheer nonsense. So I believe most of my English to be sound.

Inner speech in italics please

Yet command of the English language is not the whole story. Articles on Linkedin about “Self Editing” have recently reminded me of that. Last year I would have typed some narrative as follows:

John headed down the dark alley with some trepidation. Now he saw a huge shadowy figure up ahead.

John: “Hello, is anyone there?”

The figure came closer and loomed over him.

John (thinks): “Let’s get outta here John!”

(Narrative over) Alternatively I might have used the word “thought”, but let’s not nitpick. THIS year the last two lines would be:

The figure came closer and loomed over him.

Let’s get outta here John!

(Narrative over) Frankly I find unbolded italics rather flimsy looking, but if that’s how it’s done...

To be honest I never noticed this editing convention. I guess that’s because I only started typing in relatively recent years. A feeble excuse, I know.

 

No full stop at the end of a title

Another one I admit to missing is that one about not putting a full stop at the end of a title (usually?). To be honest I thought “Suite 101” writing site were being Grammar Nazis when they told me that. But they were right. If you don’t get told... Recently I’ve had to delete LOTS of full stops... (Can I risk that on Triond I wonder with that “title fix” glitch?). You live and learn, as they say. Funny how you can miss such things.

I once put in a history essay that one country “claimed” war on another. It should have been “declared” of course. All I can say is I must have misheard this in some earlier lesson. The history teacher who pointed this out to me (a certain Terry Dennison of international swimming-coach fame) was the first person I can recall highlighting my limitations.

 

Positive Feedback

In my work as a Careers Adviser we were always told to give “Positive Feedback”: I.E. do Not say anything Negative. But I do wonder about that. Sentences such as, “The dog’s of war all chased the dogs bone” really irritate me. Apostrophes folks! Surely you have to point out errors etc. at some time.

Frankly some articles on “Triond” are gobbledygook at best and perhaps something needs saying to the individuals concerned. I will ponder on that.

For now I will carry on with my lifelong learning. Frankly I think some of the most “advanced” grammatical rules are a bit “OTT” (over the top) so I will always be a “Maverick” to some extent. Artistic licence...

I will always write with my “Inner Voice” which can always lead into some informality. I have my preferences. Old buddy Rob Stoakes critiqued one of my poems most aptly: “You can tell it’s a Butters.”

Yes, sorry but I love an exclamation mark! I like my commas too. Don’t use semi colons much (whereas my old friend Neil uses them a lot). But in my own way I’ll always try to be progressive and continuously improve.

Longer Pieces for more Views.

Another thing I read the other day was that to get more Views you need to write 1000-1100 words. Google etc. are now looking for more substantial pieces packed with quality content. For quite some time I have restricted myself to about 400 words on the assumption that most online “readers” have a low attention span. Have been deliberately keeping down to one page. Well, I am reconsidering this. Look out for longer pieces. 727 words before this elliptical sentence or fragment according to “Word”. You have been warned.

Paul Butters


More postings -      http://authspot.com/short-stories/colonisation-earth-part-three/

http://authspot.com/poetry/swirling-snow/

http://authspot.com/poetry/determined-8/

http://authspot.com/poetry/nick-2/

http://authspot.com/poetry/car-crazy/

http://authspot.com/poetry/arthur-5/

http://authspot.com/poetry/kepler/

http://www.picable.com/People/Sports/Skateboarding/Cleethorpes-Cheeky-Free-Parking.4249171

http://sportales.com/soccer/manchester-united-versus-real-madrid/

 

Triond Tragedy

(Picture Credit - World Trade Centers by Andrea Yelde)





The following blog has ironically attracted 638 Views on Triond to press (29\1\13). My "Fergie" piece has had 370 Views and is still on the "Sportales" top ten and doing well. However, my article "Single" on Triond has received 826 Views. Anyway, here is "Triond Tragedy":

Late last year Shelpeare and others advised me (and everyone else) to target Triond sites with a “Top of the Pops List”. So I targeted “Beyond Jane” a few times and got hundreds of views. On 12^th January I targeted “Sportales” with “World Ping Pong Championship 2013”. However, I made a typo in the title, and all was lost...

As I said above in my description, following the advice of Shelpeare and others late last year gave me a mini Triond Triumph. “Beyond Jane” was the scene for hundreds of views for me. Loved it.

The same tactic did not work on “Writinghood” because its “Top Ten” was monopolised by one or two writers. But hey, “Beyond Jane” was great: namely my pieces “Single”, “Listen” and “Beat the Bullies...”

But then I posted “Ping Pong...” As usual I copied and pasted the “Description” and main text from “Microsoft Word”. (My “Word” automatically corrects some spelling errors and underlines the others in bright red). Titles are too short to copy and paste so I typed this one straight in again: BUT I typed “Champoinship”!!! Only after it was published did I notice this error but I submitted a “fix” immediately. The URL showed the same typo by the way.

Just before that fix I had six Views and the piece went straight onto the “Sportales Top of the Pops”. Since then NO FURTHER VIEWS. Whenever I click on the title from my “Published” page I get “Not Found”. For days the same “Not Found” notice appeared when I clicked the title on the “Top Ten”.

By searching Sportales I found a “Sportales: Sport” page listing recent articles and THAT link worked! The URL was amended too. Later I changed the title again, using “Championships” with an “s”. The URL changed but only that one link worked. Further Views by Shelpeare and myself there did not register.

I complained to GetSat about this “access lack” and added further update-comments but there was no reply. Talked with Shelpeare via Personal Message at great length: this has happened to him and many others too.

Today the “plot thickened” when I checked my View stats. My “Referring Chart” shows 900 Views recently from Sportales and next to nothing from anywhere else. An article of mine, “Cheating at Table Tennis” has had 330 Views (don’t recall these hitting my Dashboard by the way) but “Ping Pong...” remains at SIX. Where are the other 600 Views?

Being an optimistic person I hope these Views will come through for “Ping Pong”. I also hope those links from my “Published” page, my profile etc. will be restored.

While I’m at it. Earlier I complained to “GetSat” about their “Image Machine”. When you draft a piece there is a button to “Get Images”: usually a selection of images appears: you click on one, it turns green and hey presto... For “Ping Pong”, however, the images provided were unresponsive, although their “credit details” did “pop up”. So I had to track an image down to source and add from my laptop. Such unresponsiveness happens from time to time and is a pain. Rant Over.

Paul Butters

Hello Poetry - My Most Popular Poems

(Picture Credit - "Poetry" by Ghazi Salahuddin)

Here is my latest personal Top of the Pops List:

1) Circles - 665,
2) Excitement - 479,
3) Frenetic Genetics - 424,
4) Mother Nature - 360,
5) New Eden - 328,
6) A Poem - 311,
7) Girl Eyes - 218.

The interesting thing to me is that "New Eden" had the first major surge of Views, getting onto the "Trending" list. Well, it was the first surge I noticed, anyway. Then "A Poem" made a surge and overtook "New Eden" for a while. Since then there seems to have been a "knock on" effect, leading to the top four as shown. Looks like many made a pilgrimage together to "New Eden" but thankfully checked out my other poems.

"Frenetic Genetics" has been very popular elsewhere on the web and has risen to number three here. Another poem, "Champion", did extremely well on VoicesNet and should perhaps be posted on Hello Poetry too.

PS Have posted "Champion" on "Hello Poetry" and it has drawn 77 Views in 1 hour! To press it has had 5852 Views on VoicesNet. Good News - at 1.30PM I received an email from "Hello Poetry" telling me that "Champion" was trending. Over and Out.

24\1 (00.07) Something else - from my Facebook Page - I put:

"AMAZING! On the Voicesnet writing site I amended about 25 pieces today by removing a full stop from the end of each title. Each one was assessed by a volunteer checker. If any others get rejected then embarrassment: they are already published!"

25\1 - Latest stats from Triond - "Triond Tragedy" 489V, "Fergie..." 189V.

26\1 - Latest: Triond Tragedy 591 (my 2nd highest to press on Triond), Fergie 202 (5th)!

Latest:      http://writinghood.com/style/remember-type-inner-speech-in-italics-2/

Over and Out.

Triond Triumph

(Picture shows a "Bee" as used on my Triond Profile - taken from Google Images)

 



Am typing this "live" so I hope the internet link holds firm. Today I found that my blog on "cheating" at Table Tennis has had 92 Views in about a day. The main reason for this is that it is top of the "Most Popular Article List" on "Sportales" (Triond).

I had similar success on Triond's "Beyond Jane" with an article about bullying. Again that made "The List" and received 475 Views (to press). The power of a "List"!!!

However, my article on me being a "Hobby Writer" did not make the list on "Writinghood" so only polled 17 Views. Trouble was, a writer who shall remain nameless had about four articles on that list so I couldn't get a look in! Maybe the "hobby" theme is rather lame too. Nuff Said. 

24\12\12: 10.30 AM GMT: 216 Views now for "How to Cheat...". Ironic that my best Views have been on blogs about being single, bullying, and cheating at sport! By the way, my poem on here, "Mirror, Mirror" has had 6775 Views to press.

30\12: 00.30: 321 Views to press for "How to Cheat..." No longer on MPA List and obviously unfortunate to be on there over Christmas. Made 7 cents which seems par for this course. Was nice while it lasted.

More posts:      http://authspot.com/poetry/fart-7/

http://sportales.com/sports/ping-pong-world-championships-2013/

(Don't try the next link until I say you may please: unless you wish to see what can go wrong!)

http://sportales.com/sports/ping-pong-world-champoinship-2013/

The 2nd URL for Ping Pong, which again does not work:      http://sportales.com/sports/ping-pong-world-championship-2013/

Hope they fix it soon so that I and others can access it! Am "top of the pops" on Sportales but the link there doesn't work so only 6 Views to press instead of 56+ !!! Update - it DID work on the top of the pops but nobody noticed by then.

More:      http://computersight.com/software/triond-tragedy/

^^^^^ This has had 66 Views to press and is on the "Computer View" top ten list. Nice. Will "blog it" when it leaves said list.

More:      http://sportales.com/soccer/ferocious-fergie-the-bully-boy/

(This one has gone straight in at number ten and has received a favourable comment! No doubt I will receive some very UNfavourable comments in due course however. Again will blog it later)

That favourable comment, from "Observer 1":

"Great article, agree with every word. Fergie is everything that’s wrong about the Premier League. Unfortunately Bobby Charlton does not squirm at Ferguson’s tactics. When challenged he makes an excuse and backs him up. Disgrace"

("Fergie..." article is Number ONE now!)

Snippet - on my poetry blog my poem "Cyberspace" has recently become top of my pops with over 70 Views. Previous "topper", "Mirror, Mirror" has dropped down to 2nd place with 40 odd Views.

23\1\13 - "Fergie..." has had 136 Views but 0 earnings! "...Tragedy" has had 197 V for one cent! See why writers complain...

Voicesnet: My Top Viewed Posts



(Picture - from "Crowd Sourcing" by Rob Rozicki)

Copied this  table (below) from My Voicesnet Writer’s Page on 28\11\2012. It is preceded by my "Member Profile". Voicesnet is a quality site which accepts poems, stories and blogs. It does Not pay per view or anything. We post purely for the love of writing and conversing with others about our work (the links below worked last time I tried them!): "Member Profile - I am a writer who seems to be blessed with a gift for creative writing. A closet poet who just loves to write, or type! Must keep learning however. Like to see myself as a man of vision: looking up into outer space and beyond. Into the spiritual. Will explore inner space more, from now on, too. Am not a regular churchgoer yet somehow my poems often come out with strong religious undertones, or are they overtones? Whatever. I just love writing and a bit of reading. Sports such as Table Tennis and Association Football interest me too." Profile Views: 6772 70 poems online - viewed: 30078 times. 47 other documents online - viewed: 24341 times. Poem Title Views Responses Votes Points Added Last View Champion. 5789 3 1 5 8/25/2008 11/25/2012 Seashore. 1097 5 0 0 8/27/2008 11/25/2012 Our Universe. 1068 4 2 8 1/21/2009 11/26/2012        Look Up! 688 3 0 0 8/23/2008 11/26/2012        Dog's Life. 647 6 1 3 7/28/2010 11/28/2012 Young Chickens 640 0 1 5 4/12/2011 11/28/2012 Hereafter. 624 1 0 0 8/24/2008 11/24/2012        Death. 586 4 0 0 9/8/2008 11/25/2012        Nothing Lasts. 576 6 1 3 2/15/2009 11/27/2012        At Your Service: Meeting Your Every Need. 570 3 0 0 9/25/2010 11/26/2012 New Earth. 562 3 0 0 8/22/2008 11/27/2012 Game of Never. 534 3 0 0 8/20/2008 11/22/2012        Hello Reader. 518 7 2 6 8/21/2008 11/22/2012        Vista. 481 1 0 0 8/5/2009 11/27/2012       Internet Spammers and Trolls 479 1 0 0 9/14/2011 11/26/2012 Love, Sex and Tagliatelle Taglines. 476 0 0 0 3/2/2009 11/23/2012 You! 466 1 0 0 8/24/2008 11/23/2012 B Cool. 442 4 0 0 3/1/2009 11/24/2012       Hubble. 439 4 0 0 8/24/2008 11/22/2012         A Poem. 438 0 0 0 9/19/2009 11/25/2012 Introducing the Game of Table Tennis 429 2 0 0 4/12/2011 11/26/2012 Humber Connexions R.I.P. 414 3 0 0 9/1/2009 11/24/2012 A Regular Rhyme. 405 2 0 0 3/1/2009 11/24/2012 Circles. 405 0 0 0 2/22/2011 11/27/2012        First Contact. 404 1 1 3 4/3/2009 11/23/2012        Paula Says: Get Up and Go! 402 3 1 2 9/6/2009 11/25/2012       Twin Warning. 400 0 0 0 9/28/2009 11/25/2012 For Ever. 396 4 0 0 11/3/2009 11/26/2012       Progress. 386 0 0 0 9/27/2009 11/25/2012       Sense. 385 2 0 0 5/12/2010 11/27/2012        Endless. 382 3 2 7 5/11/2010 11/22/2012        Us. 379 2 1 5 5/12/2009 11/23/2012        Jungle. 376 0 0 0 7/27/2010 11/25/2012 Piece. 364 1 0 0 2/22/2011 11/26/2012 A Simple Truth. 356 4 1 5 7/30/2010 11/23/2012        Perception. 352 0 0 0 10/12/2009 11/27/2012 Mister Average. 347 1 0 0 10/19/2009 11/25/2012 Sense 2. 345 2 1 3 5/13/2010 11/27/2012        Jennycat and The Dogs. 342 0 0 0 7/28/2010 11/23/2012 Utterly Lost. 339 1 0 0 5/31/2010 11/24/2012

Paul Butters

PS for the record there are two full pages of posts, ending with my poem "Now" which has attracted 27 Views. My blog "Single" was unfortunately removed from the list for a "violation" of "TOS" and I have so far received no reply from my "Appeal". I have no idea what was wrong with "Single". Yes, it has been my Top Viewed article on Triond to date.

PPS Have no idea why, when I view this here post, parts of the text, including the table, are "Centred". It looks fine in "Editing".

More general postings:

 http://writinghood.com/writing/me-the-hobby-writer/

http://socyberty.com/social-sciences/the-world-ends-when-you-die/

http://sportales.com/sports/how-to-cheat-at-table-tennis/