A Different Approach

In an attempt to edit out the internet marketing garbage that cluttered up a lot of my original posts and articles on the various article depositories that I use, it seems as if the only way recommended by one person is just to let them remain on the depositories as they are and begin writing more posts and articles. But when I was ready to post this work this morning, I discovered how to edit your own earlier posts. My different approach: writing from life. And here in the mountains there is much to write about. Just like there are years of stories I can share about my very non-conformist husbands as well as the antics I find myself in quite often.

Take for instance the fog this morning compared to the ‘fogginess’ of my previous posts and articles. They will not make sense to some when it comes to the ‘pitch’ because I am no longer an internet marketer nor a social media enthusiast. I have returned to Face Book but not to my Twitter account and I am not sure if I will return to Twitter. Face Book is keeping me busy enough right now trying to update a Timeline spanning most of my life since my friends from school have not had any contact with me in a very long time and the pictures and status updates are meeting with a lot of joyful responses that warm my heart.

With that number of people responding with happiness because I am ‘talking’ again, they now understand why I was away from them for so long. I missed every reunion, party and get together that my friends held because I was married to someone who had to remain constantly on the move for reasons I will not mention here. I have been very forthcoming on Face Book about my misfortune in not one but two bad marriages. Since one husband is dead and the other has no access to a computer and few computer skills, I have felt it alright to write about them on Face Book and about the miserable marriages we suffered through.

Enough pity talking now because I want my writing to be about joyfully writing about my tire garden. I finally got my potatoes in and am determined today after writing to go work in the fog to plant my strawberry garden in a circular tower of old tires. When I asked the local EPA office about doing so, they were happy that those tires will not be attracting mosquitoes for breeding and that they will not get calls to come pick up tires that have been dumped on our mountain. You can do a search online about tire gardens if you would like to learn more about them. I will be sharing my success and/or failure at gardening in this way.

One problem I have to address in my writing is that I do not know when to quit. But that will also be a different approach to my previous work. I am learning how to be quick, accurate and concise in my writing and will try to overcome my OCD habits of beating my writing to death with that proof reading stick. I am a great proofer but mistakes can always sneak by you. Proofing can also slow me down looking for better ways to say something, write something and post what I write.

So with this different approach, I will close with one important bit of information. My previous business name, still attached to most of my earlier writing is Cattle on 1000 Hills which confused some people because they thought I was a cattle farmer. But those of you who are familiar with Corrie Ten Boom may remember that she used to say that if she needed funding for anything, she could 'ask God to sell one of His cattle on 1000 hills'. So if you see that name it is my earlier writing which you may still enjoy as long as you understand I am no longer in the internet marketing racket.