It’s May Day! Sound the bells! You may feel awash with weariness, one thousand per cent glad that the week is drawing to its close. You may want to sit and crankify in a corner, developing an over-hanging upper lip and a penchant for saying “If I had my way.” You may prefer to think yourself misunderstood when in point of fact, you’re just feeling sour. And I know, you have good reason. But smell the rain in the air, touch the chill breeze with your fingertips, remember the colour of red by seeing it in your own frosty nose, and laugh, come on, why not? Laugh, because it’s the end of the week, and you don’t have to be the King of Cranks if you don’t want to. You’ve got five minutes to have a good wallow. Then off with you, to the place you know you belong, the throne room in a field of roofless flowers.
I have a question.
It seems to me that nearly all your horoscopes have the same theme, that of shaking off the petty irritations of the day and finding the joy is everyday ordinary things. I’m not complaining: I think it’s great. But here’s my question – is that intentional?
It’s not entirely intentional…I try to steer away from writing things like real horoscopes write, about how you will “have issues with money today, and a friend will leave you gobsmacked, but it will be up to your canny (insert star sign here) brain to overcome all obstacles.
And I guess I do tend to feel a bit like I need an emotional pick-me-up at the time of day I write the blog (mostly at night, at the end of a full day thinking either at work or trying to stay motivated and market myself as part of the self-publishing path, whilst trying to stay genuine and write things that mean something to me…
Sooo, I guess that’s a long answer trying to say, I guess it’s sort of intentional, because I think, I might as well try to give others the pep talk I myself feel like hearing from time to time! Also, I know a lot of people who just need a good pat on the back and are too down on themselves to give themselves it, so I feel like it’s something I can do – give them a pat from afar.
BUT I would like to know what you would prefer to see on this site. I don’t mind writing other stuff – in fact i would like to write stuff you think you would like to read.
Some stuff I have been thinking about doing is, profiling other creative types who have a secret creative life; doing an “I heart nerds” part of the site, which would probably be mostly about cool science stuff…
What do you think would be cool to see on this site?