[dropcap1]I[/dropcap1] often wonder to myself if lovelinks were curated by nearly any other blogger but me, would I link up? I’d love the exposure for my smaller blog, and I’d be all into the friendships that started with lovelinks that would then eventually have very little to do with lovelinks, but would I really put my writing up for competition week after week?
Dunno.
I doubt it.
Putting my writing out for the Internet’s nom-nomming was how I lost confidence in myself as a writer in the very first place. My first blog was a writer’s blog, and I fell into this wonderful writers’ circle of published writers who ran circles around me with both legs pinned behind their ears. I still keep up with most of them. I’m Facebook friends with a few, some I follow on Twitter and Fictionaut. Feeling so inferior kicked my little professional corporate writer, unpublished fiction writer booteh.
But Deborah at MannaHatta Mamma asked in comments a while back how come I never link up my own stuff, and that got me thinking, well, why not? Why not this one time? So this one time, I’ll link up the submission I sent last week to the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop. First place in the contest gets the winner a trip to the Dayton, Ohio, workshop in April. I really wanna go. So I entered a writing contest for the first time in more than three years. I’m sharing it on lovelinks. Weirdly meta.
Yeah, my Headway theme broke on me again, so here we are with a new WordPress theme built from scratch. I’ve got some tweaking to do, but it’ll be our lovelinks home for a while. Thanks to my husband Q for technical help when this new theme framework was giving me fits, thanks to Flood for letting me display her Flickr stream in the footer. I like to pretend she still has a blog like in the old days when we met.
Don’t forget my offer of an iTunes song of your choosing when an XY chromosome blogger links up at your recommendation. This is a fun girls club we have going, but it’s not like it’s the Junior League. Another type of blogging voice would be good for the process. Bring me those men.
Lovelinks #39 is open.
Love the new look! I keep meaning to link up to Lovelinks and then I always forget. Must. Remind.Self.
I’ll sign you up for the weekly notice if you’d like. Thanks for the design compliment!
OOOHHH love this look!
Have a good week everyone! I’m (almost) on vacation, so I won’t have time to check out too many sites, but I’ll be back next week. So ready for sleeping in, no work and eating out!
Sooooo happy to be back. This week it is Shirley’s turn. She may not be a virgin anymore, but be gentle with her! MWAH -LV
Loving the new look! Everyone is on it this week…yipee!
Ok, talked to Jamie with @chosenchaos ….having trouble linking up….here’s the post I;’d like to link
http://lancemyblogcanbeatupyourblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/make-me-naked/
Thank you
Lance, your post needs to have a link to this post before the linkup program will accept it. You can use one of the buttons in the sidebar or insert the permalink. Thanks!
Hi,
I tried to link up but it didn’t go through
here’s my post:
http://lancemyblogcanbeatupyourblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/shimmer-in-the-sand/
Hey guys, don’t think I’m linking a post with lovelinks this week, but I will read and vote. And then you all should think about linking up with ME on Thursday for my fun and easy “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” linky!
http://www.justjenniferblog.com/2012/01/ill-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours.html
🙂
UMMMMM so you know I LIVE in Dayton, OH right?!?!?!?!?!?
I did not know that! That would be so cool to meet you if I make it there.
I’ve noticed a bit of confusion regarding my submission for today. The second and third parts ARE posted and I added links to the end of part one so you can get to them easier.
Well I don’t mean to be difficult here but I liked the other one. (-:
I like this design as well. Very clean.
I’m so glad you linked up – I was just thinking “how come Erica doesn’t link up” just the other day!
You’ve got to get over that “other writers are better than me” shite Erica – why? Well for starters, I think your writing is kick-ass and riveting. But the main thing is, only a real writer could come up with that sentence about running circles while having your legs pinned behind your ears! (-: Good luck in the contest.
Hi everyone! The sole testosterone representative is back this week. I can’t wait to see what you all have going for #39!
I’ll do my best to get to all of you but the kids are home today – some kind of voting thing going on in NH today and the schools are closed, not sure what that’s all about. 🙂
AND I totally cheated this week. My submission is part one of three of a story, so you gotta read all three parts! MUHAHAHAHAHA!
So men are equally conniving…..
I think this is the best link up out there! I’ve linked up to various places and have found lovelinks is THE MOST supportive community for bloggers – especially small ones like me. Everyone is super positive and always leaves amazing comments. So thanks! For starting this up…and I can’t wait to read your post!
I hear Dayton is lovely in the spring, especially if you’re there for a writers’ conference & perhaps have left one’s children at home, or in a kennel, or just locked in the car. No okay, seriously, that last one is a joke. The kennel bit, only sort of. Good luck. I think Erma (really, the first mommy blogger, don’t we think? we all owe her big-time) would totally approve of your submission. Funny and with a heart. Not a bad combo.
I quite like this look on Lovelinks now. Clean and easy to read!
Why, thank you! I may go minimalist from here on out.