Everyday Junglist
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About me. You know how everyone says to be a successful writer you should focus in one or two areas. I continue to prove them correct.
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Vocal Has a Poetry Community
I don't even pretend to be a poet nor do I have any aspirations in that direction with my writings. My knowledge of poetry runs about as deep as my knowledge of crochet. However even I recognize the absurdity of trying to apply a minimum word count to works of poetry. Can you imagine if such a thing were the normal standard of practice in poetry throughout history? If not, fear not, I shall imagine it for you. See below.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Poets
Cats Vs. Dogs
Any of my readers who work in any business related career will be familiar with the SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It is a way of assessing, in easily digestible form, an existing or potential market for a new or existing product which looks at that product in relationship to existing or potential competitors in that market. It is one of those things marketing loves to do because it makes it seem as if they have a role beyond just deciding what typeface to use on the company website, writing up social media posts five people will ever read, and collecting site traffic data to be analyzed by data scientists in an attempt to increase that number to six people. I kid of course, marketing is one of my favorite business functions, and critically important to business success, and mostly wont even bother with a post unless at least ten people at least will see it.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Petlife
Simulationist Church Members Contact Me in Mexico
I thought I had left all of this simulation hypothesis and Simulationist church crap behind me when I left my former home to move to Baja, California, Mexico some six months ago now. In retrospect it was probably naïve to think the church would completely forget about me, especially considering how much closer I would now be geographically to their main modern day stronghold, silicon valley in the state of California. From my new home just south of Tijuana it is only about 8ookm and a roughly 8.5h drive (depending on traffic) to make it to the valley of doom as I call it. Those who know me and my writings know that I am no fan of silicon valley and in fact have delivered many a verbal beating to a place populated by some of the worlds worst people doing some of the worlds most useless and wasteful things. Of course, it is also home to some of its best people doing the exact opposite of that. Unfortunately the former outweigh the later by a large margin which seems to grow larger every year.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Futurism
6 Steps to Become a Terrible Writer with a Terrible Career
But, what about individuals who want to tweak their writing? What about individuals who want a terrible writing career? According to my knowledge, and my knowledge is vast, according to me, writing is the most crucial skill that one can have. And terrible writers do not have this skill, for that is why they are so terrible at writing. Or, if they do have writing skill, it is only the ability to be terrible at it. Hard to argue that this is a skill however, but I will concede someone could argue it.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Lifehack
Facebook Groups I Have Known and Loved
If you can slap a label on something, Facebook likely has at least fifteen groups dedicated to some aspect of it. All have their peccadillos, and generally a somewhat creepy obsession with rules and order. The number one rule of most Facebook groups seems to be "no self promotion" followed closely by "no pornography." Below I visit some of the lesser known Facebook groups I have encountered in my travels through the Facebook-grouposphere which I visit often searching desperately for friendship, love, and/or kindred spirits who share my deep love of post apocalyptic moulds. To date, I am zero for three but I will never give up hope.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Filthy
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
From day 1 on the site, I have been a harsh critic of many aspects of Vocal. From their ridiculous and counter productive censorship policies, to their absurd 600 word count minimum for story publication rule, and most recently, their slowly backsliding commitment to publish all submitted stories within 24h of submission. This last issue had gotten so bad that two of my more recent stories had languished in submitted purgatory for 8 days prior to publication with zero communication from Vocal as to why. I have also in the past given fair credit when Vocal has shown some real guts in what they have chosen to publish, including material harshly critical of their own policies.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Journal
