{"id":2157,"date":"2013-04-26T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T08:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2013-04-26T20:51:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T18:51:26","slug":"riding-the-wave-not-bobbers-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/riding-the-wave-not-bobbers-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Not-Bobbers&#8217; Anniversary<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Since high school I\u2019ve wanted to write. It took me a long time to actually do it. I passed through several complex stages of touching writing, without doing it. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MNINB-Challenge.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2161\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/riding-the-wave-not-bobbers-anniversary\/mninb-challenge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MNINB-Challenge.jpg?fit=816%2C488&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"816,488\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"MNINB-Challenge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MNINB-Challenge.jpg?fit=816%2C488&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2161\" alt=\"MNINB-Challenge\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MNINB-Challenge-300x179.jpg?resize=300%2C179\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MNINB-Challenge.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MNINB-Challenge.jpg?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MNINB-Challenge.jpg?resize=400%2C239&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phoenix-em.com\/mariyakoleva\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MNINB-Challenge.jpg?w=816&amp;ssl=1 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>I majored English at university, and started a PhD right after that, hoping that theoretical literature will be a good enough contribution to literature in general. Teaching literature was another such good contribution. Somewhere on the way, it turned out theoretical stuff didn\u2019t bring any joy at all. At a certain point, I felt more and more inept, without really being so. I couldn\u2019t handle Homi K. Bhabha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, nor the writings of Tsvetan Todorov or Julia Kristeva (check them out, you\u2019d be amazed). To make the long story short, I found out I was not able to meet my mentor\u2019s academic expectations. Besides, a novel or even a short poem have much more value to it than any theoretical piece on literature. If a single soul reads it and remembers it for life, or has their life changed by it, that would be much more helpful. I tried my hand in a couple of short stories, but didn\u2019t like them at all. All that time I used to write poetry. It\u2019s much easier than prose, as most poets would agree. Yet, I\u2019ve never considered poetry to be real writing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>In a new attempt to get involved in literature turned to translation of fiction. That went on for several years, and then I signed up for a Twitter account, because I wanted to help my deteriorating official translation business. Twitter didn\u2019t help my business, but brought me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/editor-blogs\/poetic-asides\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Poetic Asides community<\/span><\/a> with the regular Wednesday prompt and the Tuesday poetry chats (remember those #poettues?). The blog format of Poetic Asides where all participants commented in a single thread was very suitable for a novice like me, as I would read through the whole conversation and just a couple of months later it was November, so I took part in the two major projects of my new life. I did November PAD and NaNoWriMo very successfully. Then, I discovered I could write. Apparently, I needed a longer form to find that out. Sadly, long forms need much time, which I never have. I became more or less a regular at Poetic Asides, even if only for checking on the conversation and a poem or two. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Last April, when <a href=\"http:\/\/robertleebrewer.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Robert announced his planned Platform-Building Challenge<\/span><\/a>, I was ready for that. In fact, it came as a miracle, just when I had realized how much I needed that. So many times during the two past years I had heard\/read about Platform and how important it is, that I was starting to feel my failures are partially due to the lack of one. I did my best to follow the challenge and some of the steps were easy, some were more demanding. Overall happy with the outcome, I got involved in the <a href=\"http:\/\/notbobbers.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">#MNINB April-platform community<\/span><\/a> and just rode the wave as it came. Since then, I have been included in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsmithstudio.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Wordsmith Studio project<\/span><\/a>, have had my Bio and pic there, wrote some guest posts for the blog and I have been participating in discussions and challenges. I must admit that sometimes I\u2019m too slow, but still, I am there. Over this past year I have been working towards a new Master\u2019s degree, and that consumed most of my spare time, as I also work and have a very young child. Those \u201cside activities\u201d have been getting in the way of writing and following as much as I have wanted. Some members of the WSS (as we call it now) have been more active and have taken initiative to make a website and set it up so we, as a community, may use it. Members there have been very encouraging and supportive in everything and finally, I am among like-minded people who don\u2019t actually care that I can\u2019t cook well or am easily intimidated by perky shop assistants. Smiles\u2026 They have set up a group on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/5089111-mariya-koleva\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Goodreads<\/span><\/a>, hold regular chats on Twitter, too. The only places I can participate, though, are the FB\/G+ and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsmithstudio.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WSS site <\/a>itself. And that is more than enough, honestly speaking.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Since last April I have been bold enough to submit some poetry and got a couple of acceptances. I wrote a short story for the <a href=\"http:\/\/snakeoilcure.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/29\/diamonds-below-the-agulhas-negras\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Snake Oil Cure magazine<\/span><\/a> and they published it and then I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/mousetalespress.com\/archives_koleva.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">short story of mine published<\/span><\/a> without even submitting it. <a href=\"http:\/\/whatnotshop.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Linda Hatton<\/span><\/a> was so kind to like it and send me a message about that.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> The wonderful thing about the WSS community is that we are multi-functional. We have people for everything. There are photographers, designers, people who know about \u201csite hits\u201d and traffic, among other things. What we all have in common is that we all WRITE.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>After I completed the challenge I found out that I don\u2019t fail for lack of a platform. I fail for lack of persistence, SEO-team, advertisement, marketing strategy and so on. Of course, talent is also need for success. I found out I had a pretty much precise idea what a platform is, I simply don\u2019t have the resource to build it properly. Since I\u2019ve been going on my own snail speed, I am happy to part of that something larger that supports me and moves me to progress. Team-work really matters and that is the most valuable achievement of last year\u2019s challenge. I don\u2019t know if anyone expected that, and I guess Robert is glad to see our progress as a stand-alone group. I hope that is to continue and shape into something beautiful and beneficial to all.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Happy anniversary, Not-Bobbers!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This is another of a series of anniversary posts this month, and here is a list of links to each one of the previous ones, all of them personal, curious, special and worth reading. Numbers before the names designate the date in April the authors chose. Names are clickable links. Will open in new tab \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madmacedonian.com\/2013\/04\/my-how-things-have-changed-in-a-year.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Kiril Kundurazieff<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 3) <a href=\"http:\/\/veronicaroth.com\/?p=3486\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Veronica Roth<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 4) <a href=\"http:\/\/writingonthesun.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/04\/platform-diving\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">J.lynn Sheridan<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 5) <a href=\"http:\/\/elizabethsaunders.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/authorpreneur-fighting-lure-of-pro.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Elizabeth (Beth) Saunders<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 6) <a href=\"http:\/\/sopphey.onimpression.com\/2013\/04\/living-on-my-own.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Sopphey Vance<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 7) <a href=\"http:\/\/melaniemarttila.ca\/2013\/04\/07\/a-year-and-a-bit-in-the-life-of-writerly-goodness\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Melanie Marttila<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 8) <a href=\"http:\/\/hcfitzpatrick.com\/2013\/04\/08\/confessions-of-an-april-platform-challenge-participant\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Heather Button<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 10) <a href=\"http:\/\/gerrygwilson.com\/2013\/04\/10\/the-april-platform-challenge-anniversary-who-knew\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Gerry Wilson<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 12) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onetrailingspouse.com\/the-benefits-of-joining-an-online-community\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Emily E. McGee<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 13) <a href=\"http:\/\/annesfunnyfarm.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/class-reunion.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Anne Kimball<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 14) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kharahouse.com\/2013\/04\/more-than-i-can-say-april-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Khara House<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 15) <a href=\"http:\/\/bmorrison.com\/blog\/wordsmith-studio-an-appreciation\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Barbara Morrison<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 18) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvaradofrazier.com\/2013\/04\/how-to-celebrate-writing-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Mona AlvaradoFrazier<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 19) <a href=\"http:\/\/mobyjoecafe.com\/2013\/04\/19\/go-to-the-back-of-the-class\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Jeannine Everett<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 20) <a href=\"http:\/\/whatnotshop.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/writers-when-book-characters-call-your.html#.UXMLPKIqz5B\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Linda G Hatton<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> 24)<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claudinejaboro.com\/1\/post\/2013\/04\/happy-1st-paper-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Claudine Jaboro<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claudinejaboro.com\/1\/post\/2013\/04\/happy-1st-paper-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">25) <a href=\"http:\/\/carolearlycooney.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/25\/to-the-group-at-the-back-of-the-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Early Cooney<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Out of the list:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeonclemsonroad.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/how-i-got-in-game-april-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Kasie Whitener<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not-Bobbers&#8217; Anniversary Since high school I\u2019ve wanted to write. It took me a long time to actually do it. I passed through several complex stages of touching writing, without doing it. 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