As part of Meme Week, I want to give you a link post via the Once Upon A Bloggy Night meme. Here are the rules of this one:
- Make a list of blogs you read. You can use either the name of the blog, the domain name (which is sometimes different), or a mix of both.
- Arrange the words into a simple story. Pad as needed to create a real tale. (The story doesn’t need to have anything to do with the topics or theme of the blogs you’re linking to, fyi.)
- Use one of my “Once Upon a Bloggy Night” logos — the large one here or the small one here — whenever you post the story on your blog. (Please host the logo on your own server or your Photobucket/Flickr account — thanks! Email me using my contact form if you need help figuring out the details. I’m glad to help.)
- Include a link back to this post, if you don’t mind.
- Visit the site that inspired me, the Ettarose-edgeofsanity blog and let that author know you enjoyed this idea. Leave a comment on a Tuesday link love story there!
- Then please leave a comment on this post so we’ll have a central place where a list of all of your wonderful stories can be found.
- Help spread the word by emailing each of the bloggers whose sites you mention in your story, inviting them to join the fun.
This one was hard for me. I have more than 400 blogs in my feeds. No, I don’t read them all daily. However, I do try to read the lion’s share at least once a week. If you’re not here, it doesn’t mean I don’t read you regularly, OK? K. So, here goes:
It was just six weeks ago that my brother and I would spend all day trying to escape reality with roleplaying games. I was always the Dungeon Master, and I was a verry Chatty DM. My brother would play a rogue, and my sister Angie would play a Gnome with a pet Grey Wolf. We ate chips and sushi every day, which rocked; the nights were even more Remarkable.
Well, it finally happened. My brother traded his sword for a pen, bought a ’37 Rhodester, got a job Getting Paid to Write Online, and moved away. It surprised me, because I didn’t know my brother didn’t know How Not to Write. Well, needless to say, it was hard for me to move Forward. It just wasn’t the same, playing RPGs with my sister. I became something of a spiritual tramp, and didn’t have the PoeWar to move on.
One day, I finally called my brother on the phone. “Brother,” I said, “is there any way you can Write From Home?”
“Bob,” he said, “No. you’re just going to have to get along without me.
I was devastated. Losing all hope of ever roleplaying again. So, I joined a monastery and became a Friar.
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I talked last week about creating a useful link post, and about how doing so can add value to the conversation in a niche. Is this a useful link post? I don’t know. It was fun to write, I do know that. Sometimes, you just have to write a post for the sheer enjoyment, I think.
I’ll end the Meme Theme next time with a meme of my own making. C’mon back and see what I’ve cooked up!
7 comments ↓
Bob,
This was great, I really enjoyed reading it, and will be checking out the blogs I hadn’t heard of before shortly.
I especially enjoyed the PoeWar to go on quip – makes me oh-so-excited to see your TwitWit entry! If only your brother’s departure had shattered your hopes to Smithereens
Oh and by the way, not to nitpick, but you probably want to have joined a monastery instead of a monetary, although the latter probably pays better.
Cheers,
Daniel Smith
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How cool that you participated, and I enjoyed reading your story. We actually share quite a few blog favorites already, but I was able to add three new blogs to my feed reader because of your story. ;o)
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What a cool story! I have been working one something a bit like this for over a week. It’s taking some time
Thanks for including Writing Forward in your story. I see lots of my favorite blogs here too.
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Bob, this was great! I read a couple of the Once Upon A Bloggy Night memes and really enjoyed them. This was a great entry which included many of my favorite blogs and a couple that were new to me. Thanks for showing us how it’s done!
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Hey, thanks for the link love! This was a great story!
I like how you slipped me in there at the very end…last but not least
@ Everyone – thanks for your comments. I really do enjoy each of these blogs, and I’m tickled that we all share so many favorites.
How did I miss this post? Thanks for the link, Bob! Now I have some sweet new sites to feed into NetNewsWire!
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