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Hey Friends! OMG it’s Thursday??? We’re on tonight, at 10pm eastern with “10 things I’ve learned about blogging from other FTSF bloggers.” Should be fun yes? Kenya G. Johnson‘s and my special co-host tonight (and sentence thinker-upper) is Mardra Sikora of Grown Ups and Downs.

Link up with any of us here at Grown Ups and Downs:
https://mardrasikora.com/

Here at Sporadically Yours:
https://www.kenyagjohnson.com/Or here at my place (Finding Ninee):
http://www.findingninee.com/The linkup is open through late Sunday evening! Hope to see you there

OK, if you guys say so… Sure! That’d be fun.

The Sentence “10 things I’ve learned about blogging from other FTSF bloggers…”

“… is there is no place like known.”

OK, enough of the cutesy movie/cultural reference. I’m also resolving to go easy on the social metaphor of high school and other common ‘real’ world experiences. The simple fact is that, as the first bloghop I participated in, FTSF is where I met the people who remain friends to this day, here in the inter-world. So that really should be the leadoff item

1. “…is that that is where my friends have been all along.” (After all, how many ‘co-workers/neighbors/classmates/PTA members/co-standing-in-line-in-the-supermarket/’hey,-there’s-someone-I-think-you’d-really-enjoy-meeting’/’Excuse-me-haven’t-we-met’ people are there in the world of flesh-and-blood for the average person of the average demographic?)
2. There is no such thing as ‘writer’s block’. There is only Self-Importance (and his attractive, but somewhat slutty, sister, Self-Consciousness); when we either: a) throw fear to the wind or 2) love our story enough to put our sensitivity in second place we are able to see there is no end to ‘story ideas’ or ‘things to write about’. All we need do is tell everyone else what we know about them.
3. A trick I learned a lot later in the game than I should be comfortable admitting to, (the) ‘multiplying bloghop effect’. This is to not only cite other ‘hops we are participating in, but to count them as Items (or even multiple Items) in a given List.
4. The best way to hide a bad blog post is to write another. The collective memory of (anyone’s) readership is usually measured in femtoseconds.¹
5. 1 Learn a couple of html shortcodes and dazzle your Readers right over the mid-point of a List.
6. Acceptance (There is a lesser-publicized aspect of being accepted, especially in the social goulash of this here blogosphere here and that is, ‘the fastest way to be accepted is to practice acceptance’.)
7. (Crowd Sourced Item here) (No, seriously! If anyone is reading this post and does not have the time and/or the content to submit a list, send it in to me in the Comments section below. I will totally paste it here, with complete attribution and such.
8. “… that, as found over at the Ten Things of Thankful, there is, in fact, a Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) and it is a tool without compare, as long as one remembers that everyone has their own copy.
9. If a blog post gets a single hit, the premise upon which it is based is valid and unassailable.
10. Secret Rule 1.3 (‘[T]he approaching and, if perceived within two or less items of the [a]fore-mentioned list, (and) therefore assuring completion of a said list of Ten Items, may be counted as an Item and cited as the final Item…’ [op.cit., ibid SBoR/BoSR 2014])