Pledge

It would seem to anybody who actually reads this blog that I haven’t yet got the hang of using social network media. Not because I don’t understand it or couldn’t be bothered, I have had a blog on LiveJournal since it pretty much started, but because I don’t usually have anything interesting to say. Or so I think.

I have read other journals such as Fernarcler, whose post are insightful, full of her love of life and a reflection on her resolve to live life to the fullest. I am envious of her poetic ability. I can never write poems, the cadence always seems off when I write them. Which means when I read her beautiful poems I get that much more out of them. Plus she’s pretty as well. The full package really.

So I have made a resolve of my own. If I am to commit to using social networking media then by gosh I am going to do it to the fullest. So here is my pledge. To myself more then anyone else.

I, Jamie Hodder, hereby state that I will update this blog on a regular basis, regardless if I have anything to say, and be funny, insightful, charismatic, intelligent, spell correctly (so far failing, thank you spell check), and generally say things so people can say when they are standing near the water cooler “Did you read Jamie’s blog last night. He is sooo funny. I swear I wet myself laughing.”

Hmm maybe I don’t want to be responsible for incontinence but words to that affect will do.

So let’s see how that goes then.

Until next time

Another 55 word story

He studied the dead body lying on the bed, no longer in pain. Once again, he glanced at the clock with anticipation. It was taking longer than he expected, but he wasn’t in a hurry, not anymore.


He smiled as he felt a cold, bony hand land on his shoulder. It was over at last.

Let the writing begin

So the Stringybark Short Story Competition I’m judging has started with only 60 days to go to enter.

The subject is Australian history, and I must admit that I am looking forward to reading the entries that we will get for this competition. Particularly it will be interesting to see what time periods in Australian history people will write about. There are particularly interesting periods which beg for stories to be told that have so far as I can find be left untouched.

I love history and one of my father’s passions was to read about Australian history, something he passed onto me. While members of our family didn’t do anything of historical note, apparently one of my great, great uncles (my great grandmothers brother) ran with Ben Hall, something Dad said no one spoke of when he was a kid except in private and always with a certain amount of embarrassment, which is interesting because I would think that today most people would be claiming with pride that they were related to some famous bushranger, picturing them with a certain amount of romances while conveniently ignoring such inconvenient facts such as they were generally thieves and killers. I have to admit I am one of those people and read whatever I can about Ben and his gang.

But times change and a country as young as Australia, which hasn’t undergone much in the way of exciting, daring may do events such as civil wars or the regicide of a tyrant need the ideas of rebel for the people, someone who the average person can empathise with in their struggles in life. As a result, people who, if they were alive today the public would be baying for their blood, are considered to be hero’s of a sort.

I guess what I am basically saying is that it is interesting how history has a way of erasing to gory of the past, leaving the romantic and idealised version of people we wouldn’t really want to meet in a dark alley at any time.

But I digress. The Stringybark Short Story Competition is now open. Check it out begin writing your winning entry now. While you are their check out their stunning judges including yours truly.

until next time