Spontaneous Derivation

Photography: Hryckowian

A post of mine about synopses was Stumbled by a popular user this week. The impact was the largest my site has seen since its makeover three months ago: 86 hits in a single hour, over 60 of them in that hour from StumbleUpon alone. I’ve got some new subscribers to my site feed as well.

And that’s nowhere near the largest Stumble effects other sites have seen.

How did it happen?

I sat back and scratched my head for a bit, and came up with the following four principles. They all come back to the theory of unique content, but that’s not quite all there is to it.

And for those of you who don’t know what social bookmarking is, I’ve included an introduction to this phenom of phenomenon.

Continue reading “Blogging for Writers: 4 Principles for Packing a Punch with Unique Content”

Tiny cute sugar glider.
Does it taste good with sugar?
Photography by Brent and MariLynn

Originally I wrote an additional flash fiction story for the March 2008 AbsoluteWrite blog chain, but it really belongs elsewhere, not here. Sorry about that, folks. Sometimes things just don’t work.

Getting on with the blog chain:

The previous posts in this chain are apparently about dogs and other pets. And also children (do they count?). And Gillian Pollack before me also wrote about eating your pets.

I don’t have any pets, thus can’t eat them, and I didn’t want to go into Paper Dragon territory again, so I wrote a bit of Japanese lore flash fiction.

By the way, I love eating animals. Whenever I see a cute widdle animal, like a bunny or a bird (except for crows or pigeons or rats or goldfish, ugh), I wonder: what would that taste like roasted or baked? I’d love to eat some endangered species, except that, you know, they’re endangered. I hear puffin and buffalo are nice to eat. Also ostrich and snake. I really like to eat hearts and, if they’re present, gizzards; just the thickness of muscles, I guess. Fish eyes are yum to me. Although I could never get used to chicken feet.

Now go visit the other participants!

Secret Government EGGO Project
Fantastical Imagination
For the First Time
Virtual Wordsmith
Polyspace
My Life, You’re Welcome to It
Polenth’s Quill
Food History
Spontaneous Derivation
Spittin’ (out words) Like a Llama
Fresh Hell
SLAKE
Forbidden Snowflake
Virginia Lee’s Vagaries

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