Now Hear This 12.

1.      Where do Your Blogs go: I think this question is down to the language barrier of the written word, either that or people are using Google translate badly, I post them online, advertise them on social media and then they get filled under DONE!

2.      Will I release anymore books: I would if I had the skill set, the holiday blogs suit the book treatment more than the web, but I think life’s too short to worry about it, if I can I will, if I can’t then be like me and don’t lose any sleep over it!

3.      Are you a nerd: erm probably, who knows we are all nerds in our own little ways, I’m not a nerd in a technology way, I don’t have a special skill set, I just blunder on in life, so I suppose I’m a nerd regarding life.

4.      What inspires you: Life the universe and everything, a spark can pop into my head at any time, if I don’t record it here and then it’s gone forever , I probably lose around 95% of my ideas as they happen when I can’t even make a note of the idea, but in reality its nearly always life and just occasionally a song will trigger a memory and away I go.

5.      What helps you choose: again its more to do with how I feel, today this is my third blog of the day sometimes I am very good at getting ideas formed and then down onto paper, but sometimes I don’t write for a couple of days, they usually choose themselves, you kind of get a feeling for them, they stand out, you know if it’s got legs, I rarely write a fully prepared blog and dispose of it these days, purely and simply there’s stuff that I have gotten rid of, and I regret it as I know I simply should have let the idea breath.

6.      Have you changed your perspective: I suppose I have, I could say I’m older and wiser, but I’m probably not lol, I’m much calmer these days, don’t get me wrong I can still howl at the moon, but I simply tend to go with the flow, being angry very rarely gets you anywhere in life and it’s the same in a writing sense, from time to time I have written angry and to be honest when I look back I tend to dislike what I have written.

7.      What blogs are popular: I know this question is one of the most popular, of late everything is, as the blog has been hitting high triple figures every day, some more than others, the first year I rarely hit triple figures for all of them and then suddenly it changed, I have no idea why but these days you might get a couple that only do low triple figures, but the bulk of them creep over the four figure mark, the best read one is still Girls which has had nearly 4000 hits since it was published.

8.      Does your family read them: the wife used to, but I don’t think she does now, when it was based on our social life, yes just to make sure that I hadn’t burnt any bridges, but as for the rest of the family, nope I don’t think they do, they have their own lives to get on with.

9.      Why the long gaps between blogs: it all depends on my mental health at the time, I might simply have writers block, it might simply be I have a life to live and its getting in the way, read the blogs and decide where I am at on the day, I wish I could post something substantial every day I simply can’t, sometimes the previous blog is still trending and I know if I post something it stops the previous blog dead in its tracks, I am simply trying to be the best version of me on any given day.

10. How is your health: to be honest its pretty shit but hopefully on an upward trajectory, I have been told I can have a new knee but no date as of yet, my diabetes is doing really well, and my mental health is doing ok, it’s pretty even at the moment a few minor blips along the way but nothing to be worried about.

11. Have you any unfinished blogs that you intend to publish: I recently started the holiday blog and ran into technology issues, this caused the numbers to splutter as I couldn’t publish the chapters in a timely manner, the world lost interest (the numbers died very quickly, mind you it might just have been a shit blog) so I lost interest, the last part is written with no intentions of posting it, it seems very joyless so nope that’s one not going to be finished, by and large it’s a rare thing for me for not to finish a blog I think this is only the third one where I felt disinclined to continue.

12. Would I write a novel: I have tried a number of times and I do have a number of ideas fleshed out however I don’t like any of the work I put into them, so at the moment I have four good (well I think they are) ideas, one has the potential to be a serial, however unless I could devote some serious and I mean serious amount of time I doubt that they will get completed. I have the outlines, I have the story, what I don’t have and it’s the hardest part is the voice for the characters!

13. Favourite blog to write: no idea, I like them all when I write them and then hate them all once they are posted, I have a soft spot for a couple but only because I have gone back to read after somebody has asked me a question regarding them, and I think, actually that’s not bad!

14. Have you written any and not released/published them: at the last count its standing at around 350, not all are completed, some might simply be a line as a start but gone no further, every now and again I flick through my notes and if something was to take my fancy I might do something with it, I started one called Fools Gold its only two paragraphs but I think I have an idea on how to finish it, watch this space.

15. Which blog has had the most comments: the blog “Girls” hands down as everybody wants to know more about “the girl who stole my heart and buried it out on the moors” and I’m still not going to say!

16. You don’t seem to mention anything political: Opinions are like arseholes everybody has one, and my opinions are exactly that mine, I used to be very political but my faith in all parties has been shattered, good luck to you and all who sail with you, for me I’ll keep my powder dry for when I want to really have someone come after me…..oops!

17. Who do you not like: Liars, first and foremost, fake people and we all know that there are a lot of them about, and bullies, especially bullies who hid in plain sight and are everybody’s bestest buddies but in reality they are horrible shitty people who talks shit about everybody behind their backs, there is one person at the top of my list I could name names but I would lose 95% of my friends enough said!

18. Where does the Walks With Broken Hoop name come from: a medical condition, I was taking a medication for an ailment that gave off gas more noxious than anything released in the great war, it was my native American name given to me by a well-known welder.

19. What is the biggest issue for the blog: a one-word answer is time, if I had more time, I might be slightly more consistent, but I don’t at the moment so everybody will have to grin and bear it.

20. What does the future hold: well more blogs coming your way, the numbers have been incredible of late and I know they cant last, well they could but I doubt that they will as I alluded to earlier in this blog, there are a small number already written, I have a number of ideas that  I wish to work on and you never know when a spark might pop up, I would love to do more historical social life ones, but I honestly, I don’t want to just spew some crap out, the historical ones are the hardest to do, yes I have some fabulous memories of me and my friends from my past that I would want to spend the time and do the memories justice, if you want to know what I mean go find the blog “The Dawn Patrol” that took over nine days to write and polish to a standard I was happy with, it had to be the truth and not some wispy parcel of bullshit.

So there you  go another “Now Hear This” blog, truth be told I could do another 80 questions, as I have so many queries regarding the blogs, I do get a lot of questions, I might answer something if I think it deserves a personal answer but usually I save them for these blogs, as a lot of the questions are very similar, if I haven’t responded and its not amongst this set go back through the previous eleven blogs chances are they are amongst the previous sets.

So that’s it for now watch the skies for incoming I have been writing up a storm, and these blogs will be published, stay safe and stay alive, until the next time I publish some woeful crap/masterpiece, you decide……..Toodles!