So, I was nominated by mybookworld24.com/ and I feel I should have prepared a speech and got my hair done. In the meantime, I would recommend clicking the link and having a little read of Mybookworld24.
Now, the rules…
RULES
- Thank the blogger(s) who nominated you and provide a link to their blog.
- Write a post to show your award.
- Give a brief story of how your blog started.
- Give two pieces of advice to new bloggers.
- Select up to 15 other bloggers you want to give this award to.
- Comment (or pingback) on each blog and let them know you have nominated them, and provide the link to the post you created.
Okay, then. How did petrinabinney.com start?
Well, lordy. For those who don’t know me in day-to-day life, I should explain: I have an odd accent. I don’t think I’ve met anyone, in my adult life, who hasn’t been utterly perplexed by it. By rights, I should sound like a mixture of south London and east Devon, but the sound that comes out is a mish-mash of South African, Canadian, Australian and Irish – so I’m told.
If you’ve read any of this blog, you’ll know that I don’t really talk like people. And, hopefully, you think I’m funny. In any case, I do. Put all that together – accent, word choices and humour – and I’m a bit of an odd-duck.
Now, I suspect there are three ways of tackling this. Option one – become a hermit and never speak to another living soul. The problem with this is that no vow of silence would be enough to restrain me. I provide a near-constant running commentary for my life. Option two – elocution lessons. The problem is that for every success story is a gameshow host. I would provide examples, but I don’t fancy getting sued. Option three – turn it into a career.
When I started this blog, two years ago, I didn’t know I was going to write a book. I currently have five out there in the ether. I can’t begin to guess what might happen in the next two years, but I’ll guess – all manner of things. (Looking forward to the film deal…)
My advice to new bloggers…
I only really have two pieces of advice for writing – anything, really.
Read everything. Really, everything.
Don’t give up. We all have a wobble from time to time. The important thing is to keep going.
My nominations…
https://kittykatwordpresscom.wordpress.com/
https://frankprem.wordpress.com/
https://cagedunn.wordpress.com/
https://theceaselessreaderwrites.wordpress.com/
Thank you, Petrina, and congratulations for being nominated!
I’m honored and humbled that you chose to nominate me but respectfully decline to accept. In 2017, over the course of exactly 1 month, I was nominated for 5 Blogger Awards; Mystery Blogger & Versatile Blogger, both of which I accepted and did the work to earn; and Unique Blogger, Real Neat Blog, & Liebster Award, all of which I started drafts on but never finished. And the nominations kept coming! When I realized how much time it was taking me to do the work necessary to accept the awards, I decided it was taking too much time away from accomplishing what I wanted to accomplish with my blog, so I decided going forward I would simply thank Bloggers when they nominate me but politely decline to accept.
In no way do I intend to demean Blogger Awards or Bloggers who accept them. I recognize their importance in helping Bloggers to get recognition. I feel like I do my share in that regard by routinely engaging with Bloggers via comments, recommending other Bloggers in my own posts or by reblogging, and frequently interacting with the community via various blogs’s writing prompts. And of course I’ll check out the blogs of the person who nominated you as well as the ones you nominated with which I’m not already acquainted.
Thank you again, and keep up the great work!
Take care, be well, and happy Blogging,
Denny
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Understood. No worries, Denny. Thanks for all you do. Love your blog and definitely don’t want to keep you away from it.
Have a good one. P x
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Good one!
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