Actually, this is a complete lie.
This is Day Three.
On late Saturday night, I updated my Facebook author page status to: “Keira Wong set up her blog at www.keirawong.com/blog. Don’t really know what’s going on there…” The last sentence is actually true. I had no idea what was going on.
Time Travel
I wrote two posts, all very happy with my fancy, technical skills. And then. Gone. Lost. “This page does not exist”. Neither did my sanity at that point. Not sure what happened to my little blog but it had disappeared. Not just the two posts. But the entire blog! Template, categories I set up, photos I added. All that remained was the error message and the hole in my table where I banged my mouse in frustration*.
I updated my FB status only when I had something to direct people to something. Which, until 3 minutes from now, is nothing. So thought I’d start again, and here we are. Day ONE. –If I keep repeating this, it will be reality. (“I am rich. I am rich. I am rich.”)
Hello Luca
So, this is just a quick introductory (take two) post. I would have like to have had a “Hello, I’m Luca. I live on the second floor” type of post but ah well. I’ll keep this short in case it decides to short change me and do a Houdini on me again.
Basically, this blog is to record my thoughts as I potter through life on my Adventure Book Tour, and trying to write and publish my ninth book. The journey of a paperback writer. I’ll throw in some play time posts if they’re worth a read such as:
- Sneakily scoping and outwardly touting – Visiting the book tour of journo Jack Marx at Hornsby Library to research how a book tour is actually conducted. Also, the library is interested in having a kids’ author come visit. That’s when I sidle in. So it will be business fun time for me.
- Arj Barker’s stand up act – one of my favourite comedians. My partner and I have a bet on which of our flowers will be next to droop. Loser has to shout they want to [insert humiliating activity] Arj at an extremely quiet time.
- Coffee with the parents of a, dare I say it, ”fan” of mine? No, I’m not having coffee with my grandmother but with the parents of an 8 year old boy who apparently likes my books.
- Ice-skating – prepping for my US trip in December. I envision doing twirls and jumps in a Christmas elf costume with eyes sparkling like tinsel, but I think it will be more like the kid in a fluoro parka clutching on to the side of the rink for dear life proving to everyone it actually has been 10 years since I ice-skated. Speaking of humiliating activities, if I lose the drooping flower bet, I’ll shout, “I want to ice-skate in a parka with you, Arj!”
Life scripts
I much prefer a blog as, being an author, words, and rambling ones at that (see above), are my lifeblood. Plus, Facebook doesn’t cater for 40 paragraph status updates! I best record my days in words, written from my memory, impressions and slight embellishment. Photos only serve to jog my memory and keep my exaggeration in check! (“Okay, okay, the fish I caught was actually this big!”)
So this first post was tweaked a little, since disappearing. That’s life. And what life script doesn’t need a rewrite every now and then?
I hope you enjoy this blog and take from it what you will.
K
Please let this post work...*fingers crossed*
*No actual mice were hurt in this post.
