{"id":99,"date":"2013-03-18T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T06:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2014-01-22T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:05:24","slug":"something-to-work-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/something-to-work-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Something to Work For"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou\u2019ve worked so hard on this book. Can\u2019t you be satisfied with what it\u2019s done for you? Why do you feel you have to publish it?\u201d asks my friend, Annette, a published poet and fellow griever.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure. It gives me something else to focus on. Something to hope for and work for. And maybe it can be helpful to someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, but you have to do all these other things in order to get it published,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, maybe nursing a new goal and trying different things is helpful to healing. I haven\u2019t wanted something so much since Marika was alive,\u201d I say. \u201cIt feels good to want something again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo how can I help? I\u2019m ready, I\u2019m willing. Read to me. I want more,\u201d Annette begs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen read on,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n

A Very Short Story\"SUKI-GREENBALL\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For days Suki was barking at the electric fireplace in my bedroom. I assumed a mouse was trapped behind it and ignored her. For days. Around the same time I noticed Suki had stopped begging me to play. She no longer followed me around the house squeaking her favorite toy, a green ball. Then one day I wanted to play with her but couldn\u2019t find the squeaky green ball. I looked all over the house with Suki at my heels.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuki, where\u2019s your green ball?\u201d I finally asked her. And she immediately trotted to the fireplace and began to bark. Sure enough, stuck behind, out of her reach, was the green ball. We\u2019d communicated, made a connection. We could play.<\/p>\n

I need my readers\u2019 help. All these wonderful comments you\u2019re sending me via email can help demonstrate to a publisher that lots of people will buy my book. But the comments need to be sent directly through my blogsite to count. It means you have to first go to the site \u2013 easy \u2013 just click on the highlighted title at the top (left) of the weekly email that\u2019s sent to you. A click on that bluish-green title takes you to the actual site. There you can view my entry as it was meant to be seen. And at the end of each posting there\u2019s a place to leave a comment. Every time someone comments there, on the blogsite, my site\u2019s analytic platform-measurement score grows. I don\u2019t understand it myself. And it\u2019s embarrassing to ask for your help. But this social media metrics is something I need to start attending to. Because I\u2019m polishing the last chapters now and working on my book proposal. It won\u2019t be long before publishers check out my site to see if I can gather, grow and hold an audience. So please click on the greenish title and comment bar. And let\u2019s play \u2013 I mean communicate.<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading.
\nCheers!
\nRobin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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