November #BlogBattle: Nervous

/ Gary

November 2023 Blog Battle

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Our word this month is:

Nervous

You can start writing at any time, but make sure you post your story by the

17th of November

to have a link shared here and on social media.

Once you’ve posted your story to your blog, put a link to it in the comments section, and we’ll add your story to the Battle Stories Line-up post that goes live the 3rd Friday of the month (the same as the post-by date).

Make sure to check back and read some of the stories of your fellow battlers. Leave comments to encourage these writers. And go a step further in supporting one another by sharing each other’s stories on your own blog or social media, whatever you’re most comfortable with!

Basic Rules:

The Prompt Word will be given the First FRIDAY of every month.

Post your story by the 3rd Friday of the same month (this is the same date as the Stories post goes live).

RULES

  1. up to 2000 words max (give or take a few)
  2. fictional tale (or true if you really want)
  3. Any genre that fits within PG-13 (or less)-type Content – let’s keep this family friendly!
  4. Your story must contain the randomly chosen word(s) and/or be centered around the word meaning in a way that shows it is clearly related.
  5. Go for the entertainment value!
  6. Put a link back to your #BlogBattle Short Story in the comments section
  7. Please tweet and otherwise share your battler buddies’ stories across social media.
    1. Use the hashtag #BlogBattle when tweeting all the stories so we can cross-share.
  8. Have fun!
Any photos included with the prompt are only for your benefit as a pinch of inspiration. They don’t need to dictate your theme or story genre. Only the Word of the Month counts! Photos are thanks to public domain photo sharing sites like Unsplash and Pixabay.

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    • Sometimes it happens for no real reason. The fix I use is to insert a “read more” line after a brief intro or insert metadata into the image. That way the algorithms pick up short text either from the image URL of chop lines out of the body text instead. If there’s no breaker (I’d read more line) it will take the lot.

      No need to apologise when asking a question either. It’s the only way to learn 😂

      Of course my solution might not fix all but its worth a try. To put meta data in either use it via Yoast which allows you to show how an image is intercepted by Google search of edit the image from the media library.

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  6. After a long time not writing, I have neglected my house to write this. Feels good to be writing again. When I was at school I wanted to be Jilly.. I had dreams but no I never succeeded – not sure if I would really have the confidence to do this. Dancing and singing on the school bench is very different to a talent show, hope you enjoy reading it..

    Today is a song

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    • You know I was just looking through my Pinterest board labelled Big Up Your Blog and I got really nostalgic wondering where all my blogging friends were and how they are doing. Is a coincidence to see you here after so long? Absolutely brilliant to see you again. Really must catch up

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      • Thanks Gary! Life has just got so busy, but I need to get back to my writing., Today I have achieved nothing other than this blog post. Then going down the rabbit hole of increasing engagement on Facebook – though the priority here is to just write. Thanks Gary, nice to see you are still here!

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        • No worries. I’ll look into it further and see if I get any other ideas to try. As for FB. I had an 18-month out period to reset. Things like FB I avoid now as I don’t see much benefit anymore. I feel much better for that too. I still use Instagram and Pinterest though. But I have scaled back to focus on writing now. Which since doing the above has come back much stronger in terms of productivity.

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          • It is all very time consuming! What frustrates me is the people that get thousands of likes and comments just for being them. I spend most of the morning writing and then Facebook shows it to very few people. It is hard work but maybe just writing for ourselves maybe is the way to go! and not getting stressed over facebook comments and likes.. Yes I completely understand the 18 month off to reset..

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          • Most of them I think post gibberish and often buy services to promote posts so that alone targets a demographic which give likes. Keep in mind most likes are false in that most people just hit it without reading or referring. I’d they have no clue what it is they have liked. FB is powered now by ad placement. Here it’s called blaze your post. I tried it on Instagram a year or two ago and it taught me that huge like use that to generate them.

            FB post BUYB was just affecting my MH. It’s why I gave it up. I’ve heard a lot of people say what you just did… time intensive for little return.

            Ergo I came back in a better place with more focussed approaches. I find this a much better place to be now too. Met some really good people doing BB.

            That said I’m an admin for it too haha

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          • I cllicked on Ad placement just now out of curiousity and im sure it would have let me place an ad and then billed me afterwards. I’m certainly not paying for ads. I’m sure you are right about the people hitting like with not reading.. and yes Facebook is really not great for your MH.
            Ive always enjoyed Blog Battle so here I am..

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          • It was curiosity that made me try it on Instagram. I got 1k likes with no referrals which confirmed what I thought. If I was published I may try it again but until then no way. I feel it much better to follow your instincts now, if it feels wrong don’t dither, drop it and do what you enjoy. That definitely was not FB.

            Really hope you are here more now too. 🙂

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          • Thanks Gary I am going to try. The bigger battle is the time my blog takes, and family commitments – homework etc.. I do enjoy my writing though and I would love to get my book published before I am 50.. lots of work! and lots of writing and rewriting!

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          • The current one is part of my world build Dragon Stone. Almost 100K and very close to the end. Its back story has been on here for over a year. I found it invaluable as a way to create and improve characters without having to do accursed character sheets lol

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          • That sounds like alot of work! Good that you have been able to use your blog to help develop it.
            Mine is at about 75000 words and I’ve barely looked at since 2020.. its stuck in my one drive cloud and I need to look at it again! Good luck with it all! Writing really is alot of work!

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          • That’s just one. I’ve finished another and have the next book ready to after ending DS. Much of mine were in limbo too. Especially when I lost motivation. The time out was needed to make me realize what is important. I think you can do it too. Just decide where best to put the time. Losing socual media sure made me rethink that part

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