Thanking You

 Last night, as I plugged away at work, my mind was burgeoning with imagination, contemplating what I could write on my Blog today. Ideas were overflowing and creativity was in full bloom. Alas, I have arisen this morning and run into a dead end. All that I thought exciting last night seems to me this morning to be stale and uninteresting. Perhaps the monotony of work made my feeble thoughts seem more exciting than they were and in the cold light of day they have been exposed  as weak and meaningless.

 No matter. I will push on with a short note today as I have some tidying up to do with those who regularly read my Blog.

 The winners have been announced and prizes awarded in the Australian Writer’s Centre Blog contest and sadly I was not among the winners. Of course with over 1100 Blogs entered the chances of victory were slim and at the end of the day I have to admit my Blog and my life is not overly exciting and my technical skill when it comes to literary matters is not great. No matter. I enjoy what I am doing and that is the main thing but I wanted to thank everyone who took the time to vote in the “People’s Choice”  section and those who support me regularly by reading this Blog. It must be just short of having teeth pulled out at times just trying to negotiate my crude style and make something of the nonsense I write but it is not called “Strange Notations from a Laborious Life” for nothing!

 Another thing I am doing at the moment is a short course in feature writing for magazines and newspapers and if anyone is willing to help me out it would be much appreciated. If you have any ideas for a feature article that I would be able to research and write please feel free to drop me a line here in the comments section or on Facebook. Somewhere down the track in this five week course I think I will have to come up with and expand on an idea for such an article so why not use my friends to help me out? I need all of the encouragement I can get!

 I have also been thinking of upping the ante by creating a Facebook page for my Blog. I know many Bloggers have such a page but it seems a little vain to be doing such a thing but I will probably press ahead and see how it goes. I may pick some Blog posts to put on it retrospectively just to kick it off and I guess I can always delete the page if it seems to be pointless or too much work to check and or moderate. It’s all about getting yourself and your work out there. A “writer’s platform”, is what they call it. I will see how it goes.

 So now as the sun rides high in the sky and the frost and fog meanders away until early tomorrow when they will once more combine to run their slippery hands across the countryside, I will go on my way with my day and get to it the best I can.

 And once more to my small band of regular followers, a big thankyou and I hope you all continue to find something of value occasionally in the murmurings of my life.

 Have a great day.