Nov 27, 2017 / Community Pool

Community Pool

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  1. Happy Monday everyone!

    Hope everyone has had a good day so far! This week I wanted to share with you one of my (favourite!) posts that I have created. I show you my favourite “Instagram worthy” spots around Dubai! You can find the link to this post below!

    https://josiearana.com/2017/09/20/dubai-most-instagram-worthy-spots/

    I’m hoping to get more consistent with my posting and restricting it to a post every two weeks. Some of my followers know that I’m currently in graduate school doing my masters, and I also travel a lot, so I feel like this will be the best way to stay consistent and produce content that I love!

    Hope you enjoy this post and I would love to hear your feedback and read your posts too!

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    1. Hey Hey! A fellow dubai blogger .. Great post and great shots of Dubai you got there, keep up the great work!! Cheers 🙂

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      1. Thank you, Donna! Yes, as I mentioned I am currently doing a masters and have quite a lot of work, I have found that I rather would space out my blog posts (a.k.a every two weeks or so) as I want to be able to not only put in as much effort as I want it to be but also not force work as I’m sure that would translate!

        Thanks again!

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  2. Hello Everyone, Happy New Week!

    This is an old post I’d like to share… I teach students in architecture, and this post shows images of some of the best work that was produced by the students last year (from Year 1 to Year 5). I enjoy looking these images to try to understand their ideas – ideas which are developed with some sense of reality, but with a healthy amount of creative freedom!

    Dundee / Degree Show 2017 / Architecture: Selected Works

    Thanks for checking it out – I’d love to hear your first impressions.

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      1. Thanks – I work in practice four days out of five – where pragmatic concerns are often very important – teaching at college for one day is a great way to engage with some of the ‘weirder’ ideas!

        Thanks for checking out the link!

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    2. I love creativity in all of its various forms. What talented students you’ve taught! I enjoyed having the chance to browse through. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

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  4. Hello everybody, Simon from To Cut a Short Story Short here with my latest post. This time it’s Monasticity, a tale of beer, books and marital strife! (1000 words). I hope you enjoy it!

    https://simonjwood.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/monasticity/

    Also, I have some promotional codes left for FREE copies of my new audiobook, To Cut a Short Story Short: 111 Little Stories, the ‘best of my blog’ (up to June 2017). If you’d like one, please click the ‘Free Audiobook!’ link in the ‘recent posts’ sidebar on my blog. That also gives you full details of how to obtain and download it. It’s narrated by Angus Freathy, who has done 15 audiobooks to date. I think his ‘voices’ really bring the stories to life!

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    4. Just commented on your post, in summary I loved it! The story was so unexpected, definitely not predictable. I noticed one thing on your blog, when I clicked menu, there was still a section that said TEXT WIDGET, you can edit this or you can delete this. I think it will make your blog look better tidying up this one thing =). Hope this helps!

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    8. I feel this is needed by everyone, so it is definitely worth saving. Thanks for sharing.

      In between; please find time to check my last post. Lately I started a series on “resources”, but I took a totally different direction in discussing it. Below is the link to my latest post titled ” leadership”, tell me what you think. Thanks.🙏

      RESOURCES: Leadership

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  7. I have just celebrated two years of blogging https://crowdedmind.co/2017/11/26/the-advice-safe-3/#more-22239 is my latest https://wordpress.com/post/crowdedmind.co/69 was my first. I have matured quite a bit, look at the difference! I have just wasted too much time going through my old posts, but glad I did. It confirms advise I was given at the start, just keep writing, your style and themes will develop. JUST WRITE is good advice.

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      1. Whoa! Did i read that right?!? very disrespectful .. find a way to delete it asap .. should be ashamed

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    1. Such beautiful nature shots, so very vibrant fall colours! Wish I was there to experience in person! Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  12. Hey there swimmers and floaters and toe dippers alike! How’s everyone doing? Well I hope! 😃

    Over at my blog, I run a daily word of the day style a la British English words and phrases, with a side speciality in Irish and Scottish and Australian words too! I mostly dabble in flash fiction, but poetry is a new avenue I’m loving to explore. Today I tried my hand at suspense and mystery.

    Just hit 300 followers and I can’t thank everyone enough, especially since I just hit 10,000 views a few days ago. Less than a year into this and I am humbled every single day.

    https://britwitblog.wordpress.com

    Please feel free to explore and ask questions. I love interacting with everyone, new and old! Cheers! ♥️💫

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      1. Oh my! How awesome! Thank you for poking about and liking it, as well as the follow! ☺️💜🌸

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    7. Please do New Zealand words too! I remember needing to change my vocabulary a lot when moving to the UK otherwise I would be shouted at my peers (teenagers of course), movie theatre vs cinema was a poplar one to get told off for Haha. A lot of people are also surprised to find out that there are a lot of differences between Australia and NZ in terms of the English language. Most of which, is slang… Nice blog =)

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      1. Hey, thanks! I’ve done a couple that are considered both Australian and NZ words. I try to keep my eyes out for them! Thank you for the follow as well as the long comment. 😁

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  13. Hello to all the readers and writers out here!

    Recently I wrote a poem and would love to know what you think about it! I feel that poetry is one of the best possible ways of understanding and calming the turmoils of emotions that one goes through.

    Also, on closer notice, you’ll see five WordPress icons on my site (in the menu). They are thumbnails for the five pages that I have. However, I am unable to remove them or replace them by some pictures. Adding featured images also didn’t help. I would be extremely glad if anybody could help me out with that!

    Here’s the link to my poem:

    You Know Who You Are

    Hope you like it!

    With love,

    Meher

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    1. Hmmm… not sure… Did you play with the customize tool? Do you have more than 1 Menu option? That would be my first guess. Or maybe it’s a widget of some sorts? Sorry for the shots in the dark, but that is what I would take a look at. If not, post on the forums. There’s a bunch of knowledgeable people there.

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    1. I like your positivity for Mondays! It’s always a nice change of pace. 🙂 Do you have a like button that’s available for WP users? I noticed you had some likes on your post, but I wasn’t able to leave one. All the best!

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  18. Happy Monday my fellow fans of literacy!

    My name is Mark Draycott and I am a self published author looking for your support. Please jump on board my journey with me and share in my love of writing. My new book Chasing Shadows has just been released and I am on the look out for reviewers who would like to receive a free copy by email.

    I look forward to hearing from you soon!

    Take care,

    Mark
    http://www.markdraycott.com

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      1. Hi Sonali,

        It’s great to hear from you! Thank you for getting in touch. It would be great for you to assist in reviewing Chasing Shadows. If you have an email address id be happy to send you over the epub and mobi file for you to download? Let me know what you would prefer. My email address is markdraycottauthor@hotmail.com

        Thanks again for your support, Sonali.

        Regards
        Mark

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      1. What a question! I’m disseminating history of events or people that I find fascinating. I’m not sure that there is a message with that (I haven’t thought too deeply). It’s an ‘ooh that’s interesting! I’ll write about that!’ process.

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  22. Hi everyone! My latest post is about becoming comfortable with crying, how I used to view it in the past, and how I view it now. I hope you enjoy it 😊https://wp.me/p9eZP9-21

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    2. You know what? I related to this a lot more than I initially thought I would lol so shame on me for that; but I’m so glad I had the opportunity to read it! 😁 I have the tendency to cry when extremely frustrated; but then I’d get teased for how easily I cried in books or movies. I was more free expressing myself that way than in “reality” so to speak. I think I’ve gotten better. Your post has definitely given me a new perspective. Thank you for sharing!! 💫💜

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      1. Thank you! I’m happy to hear that my post gave you a new perspective 😊 and I’m glad to hear that you have gotten better, just go with whatever works for you.

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    3. I was talking with my wife at the weekend about our respective tendencies to cry – it comes frequently to me, and much less to her. Then we were chatting with an old friend of mine, and he can’t remember the last time he cried.

      I’m constantly amazed by the scale of the differences that can exist between members of the same species! Humanity is extraordinary!

      JB / http://www.dynamicstasis.blog

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  23. Happy Monday! I’ve been blogging for a little while now, but have really not had much feedback. My posts generally tie towards education, parenthood, and personal life issues. I would love any feedback on my newest post and if you have time, some of my older posts.

    Enjoy!
    Rom

    Unneeded

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  25. Wow, am I ever-so-glad to have waited for this weekly ritual to come: The WordPress Community Pool! And so with that, all of you bloggers and blog followers out there, I have just published a few new posts today (and I just wanted you to know that it’s my birthday today! Yippeee!!!)…Oh, and finally, here is one more reminder: Next Monday KALEIDOSCOPE will present its holiday story serial extravaganza, and this year it is the retelling of the classic tale of “Hansel & Gretel”; You can find all of the details, as well as all of the posts in which I have published in the past few weeks, all right here at http://www.j2w7.wordpress.com! Have a blessed week, with ♡-JW

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  27. Hey Guys!
    I recently wrote a short fictional musing on a Rainbow,giving it some more deep meanings. Do have a look and let me know what you think.
    https://aestheticgraphy.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/band-of-colour/

    My blog doesn’t fit into one criteria of writing. It has everything, from poetry to motivation to photography and is basically my life on the blog. I hope you find my content aesthetically pleasing!

    Do leave links to your blogs as well, as I’d love to read them.

    Have a great week ahead.
    Riya

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    2. No need to check out my blog. I just wanted to say congrats on getting the commission for the Hunger Games piece. That’s very impressive. It also sounds like such a fascinating topic that I hope you post a link to it when it’s published. All the best.

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      1. Thank you so much, that is very kind of you! It’s a lot of work, that’s for sure and when it gets closer to its publication date I probably won’t stop posting about it and providing excerpts ha.
        I’ll still stop by your blog, I enjoy meeting new people

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      2. You’re quite welcome. I’m in awe of what you’re doing, I really am. I can’t wait to see the final product. (And I see you did stop by my place – thanks for that, although you didn’t have to. It’s kind of a mess…) 🙂

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