Dear John or Blogging it to Death or The Worst Ever Blog

Blog 8 – Dear John or Blogging it to Death or the Worst Blog on Earth – Every week an intentional porkie pie is told. Be the first to spot it and this week you will get six free handout sheets emailed to you on any writing related topics of your choice.

Louis di Bianco posted information on his Facebook wall regarding the worst blogs in the world. I went to the website and discovered that a blogging cardinal sin is to self promote.
But that’s one of the main reasons I blog. More on self promotion and Blogging it to Death later.
Let me tell you about Louis di Bianco. He was my landlord when I lived in the French-Portugese area of Montreal in the late seventies. He was a Vietnam draftee and his next door neighbour was a German/American draft dodger who was given one of the few Nixon pardons. Juergen was therefore able to return to the US having fled to Canada for asylum. Louis sub-let his apartment to me when he went to fight his way to Broadway so officially Israel’s father was my landlord. Israel used to come round to my flat every Friday night for the rent and to knock back brandy and that was all. These then thirty somethings were gentlemen itself. They really were. And when Juergen Dankwort – my pardoned neighbour – drove me and Mr Red Hat down to New York, my twenty two year old self couldn’t have asked for more protective child minders at midnight on 42nd Street. Louis was rafeish and dark and deliciously Italian/Broncs as his name suggests and it’s good to see him posting all sorts of vital information on his wall. As my Christian name was Titterington – he nicknamed me Twitters and when we reunited on Facebook he said, “Who would have thought, Twitters, that a whole social network would be named after you?” Can you believe Louis has over 1000 friends on Facebook? I hope they all fly to read my blog.
Well, try and find a fib in there. No-one found last blog’s fib – I think the whole thing was too hormonal. And who said they thought I could have been quite netbally sporty at school? Oh, come on … a 52 week a year period?
As for ‘Blogging it to Death’ and self promo – Creative Ink Publishing is delighted to announce that that Tony McHale – BAFTA award winning producer of ‘Holby City’ and BBC scriptwriter and director of ‘Casualty’ and ‘EastEnders’ – will be judging its ‘Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ writing competition. The best letters, emails, texts or Skypes will be filmed by Creative Ink for Actors and an overall winner will be chosen – unknown to everyone but Tony and the technical director until the release of the DVD. The overall winner will receive £100 and the runners up will receive free DVDs.
You can write up to 600 words but there must be some kind of ‘brush off’ – romantic or otherwise.
The entry fee is £5 and donated to the British Heart Foundation and Hearts & Souls.
The deadline is July 31st – by email to creativeinkpublishing@gmail.com and pay your entry fee to Creative Ink Publishing, send by post with cheque (payable to Creative Ink Publishing).
Details: Creative Ink Publishing, 11, Pitch Pond Close, Knotty Green, Beaconsfield, Bucks, HP9 1XY and for full details go to www.janmoranneil.co.uk
Still a few places left on my Creative Ink courses this coming summer term on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and also the ‘Get that Book’ weekend course on May 21st and 22nd.  Check out my website.