Also, of course, visit the page. Like it. Or subscribe to it. Or follow it. Or do whatever it is they are doing to the Facebook pages these days.
zombiebrainsurgeon-deactivated2 asked: I just purchased a notebook, and I titled it "One Leaf", so I can start with the first leaf you guys ever asked us to write, and fill it up. ;D
That is so hard core.
Thank you for writing to tell us.
Fingers crossed. Good luck. Keep moving your hands.
Write one leaf in which you describe something that is hard core.
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enlightenmentainteasy asked: How do you plan on getting newcomers directed to your blog without the directory? The "explore" system seems to require you to deliver tons of content rapidly over the course of the day just to get anyone attracted to your blog. Thus, creative writing blogs like yours suffer because they generally don't deliver that much eye-catching content. The service you provide here is really, really useful and it seems kind of disappointing that others who could use the prompts you provide are going to be glazed over because of the "explore system".
The truth is, I was never particularly fond of the directory. It always seemed to me like a “directory” of cats, nudes, and blogs begging their followers to recommend them to the directory.
Of course, the “explore” system is just as ridiculous, and seems to simply reward popularity, excess, and (as always) cats.
But whatever. I simply don’t have time to worry about why or how people come to Write One Leaf. To be sure, I’d love it if every single human who found Write One Leaf useful was able to find and follow Write One Leaf, but wringing my hands over it is a waste of my time.
A more valuable use of my time is to continue to produce Write One Leaf in a timely way, to add bits of content or value here and there when it occurs to me to do so (and when it is within my ability to do so), and to move my hands daily in a manner that resembles writing.
Also? Write One Leaf is one of those “blogs” that seems perfectly suited to the “Tumblr Blogmaking Platform.” Because people can easily “reblog” a prompt and begin moving their hands immediately if they wish (highly recommended). Furthermore, this activity leaves a link back to the Write One Leaf “blog” for anyone reading the entry to link back to and find and discover and follow. Which is, perhaps, one of the reasons the Write One Leaf Tumblr Blog is so popular. You never see it on the radar. You likely won’t find it on the “explore” page. But we have nearly 17,000 followers.
I trust people will continue to find us somehow.
Now then. Go. Move your hands. Write one leaf about going for an explore.
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Later this week we’re pushing a complete overhaul of the Queue feature with some killer new functionality.
In the meantime though, the existing queue service is handling a volume of posts it was never designed for.
Why am I reblogging this at Write One Leaf? Because Write One Leaf makes heavy use of the queue feature. Having it offline is a major inconvenience for me. And it may mean that posts will be less steady for the [un]foreseeable future. They may be random. They may pause altogether. They may sputter and smoke.
I hope they will not become obnoxious and painful and unpleasant and shuttered.
I doubt that they will. But I love to write serial descriptions that make little or no sense.
In the mean time: Write One Leaf about something in your life that is now, or has been in the past, “over capacity.”
