I’m going to try an experiment and see if it works. You can join in. In fact, for it to work you will need to join in and all you have to do is send me an email. Thing is, I’m going to be away for a short holiday in about five weeks’ time and that means there will be nothing to put up on the blog. I’m leaving my laptop behind on purpose and will be having a blogging break. But what I thought might be fun is this…
Anyone who wants to can write a blog post, about Symi, what you like, what you want to say, or about Greece or anything that’s relevant to my blog here – so about Neil’s photos, about one of my books, or more of them, or about your own writing or your trip to Symi, Greece or your creative writing course, your cat, our cat, holiday ideas, your own websites (links will be acceptable too) about your company, your ramblings, walks, holiday ideas, or well, almost anything really. (I will vet them.) You can email it to me and I will get posts ready before I go away so that you, dear reader, still have something to read while I’m not here – the post will automatically post themselves like magic.
You can write any length though I’d suggest around 500 words is a decent limit. You can send me images too (if you do, watermark them or put your name on if you want to copyright them). And the sooner you do it the sooner I can start loading them on. I got this idea from a piece of mail asking if I do guests posts. We have done in the past and I’ve even allowed a couple of dodgy ones where there’s clearly some advertising going on, but I thought it would be good for Symi Dream readers to have a chance to become Symi Dream bloggers, if only for one post; though you can submit more if you want and I’ll put them up too.
So, in the manner of those aggressive Facebook posts: ‘Share your Symi thoughts with us and write a blog post. I know that 99% or you won’t do this.’ So why bother writing it up there, matey? Stupid aggressive FB posts, they really get me wound up. Things like: ‘I know my friends will share this…’ Well, I won’t because I hate the way these things literarily bully people into sharing posts about ‘It’s Weak Bladder Week’ or ‘Show your support for Jockstrap Awareness Day’ or ‘It’s Herpes Month I know my friends will share this but will you?’ No, stop herping on about it and simply ask the question: Please will you consider writing a short blog post for other readers of Symi Dream? If you can, just email it and any pics to mail@symidream.com either as an email or as a Word attachment and I will post it up between November 25th and December 14th. That’s if I get any in, it may not work of course, and a lot of people will think, ‘what a great idea I’ll do that tomorrow,’ and then will forget, so I will try and remember to remind you.
Think it’s a good idea? Just let me know and send in a post, posts, picture or pictures. (And pictures of posts will not be considered.)
