I will try to post the prompts here in a timely fashion but if you'd like to ensure you get them all on time then PLEASE sign up for the email notices. The email list will ONLY be used to send out prompts and the odd (really odd if you know me) notification (no more than once or twice a YEAR). The prompts will happen on a somewhat regular basis, at least every other day through the month of December.
I'm going to maintain a blogroll on this site so if you respond to any or all of the prompts, please let me know (Email me and use "DEverb blogroll" as the subject; PLEASE only do this ONCE) and I'll add you to the blogroll.
I'll update this page as you all remind me of what I've forgotten to tell you :)
And remember, the only rule of #DEverb is that there are no rules for #DEverb.
Peace,
Brad
Monday, December 2, 2013
Let's do this!
It's been a very long time since I've really felt like writing but over the last few days I've actually felt the NEED to write. Having said that, I have a really tough time trying to organize my thoughts and staying on topic for more than a few seconds at a time. It was many years ago when I first discovered the Reverb project and through that I found a voice. I can't even begin to describe what those prompts did for me, both in terms of helping me to find a voice but maybe more importantly by helping me to work through a lot of stuff I had been struggling with for years. Which brings us to today...
Naturally I tried to return to the fount and decided to look into some of the prompts being offered for Reverb13. The problem was that none of them resonated with me. I'm in a different place now and quite frankly it's anything but upbeat and I'm not in the mood for celebratory or inspirational posts. Please understand that this is NOT meant to take away from the hundreds or thousands of you who ARE. I applaud you and honestly wish things were different for me this year, but they're not.
So I've decided to do something about it. I've decided to relaunch my own Reverb type project but to focus on all of the stuff that so often goes unsaid. I want to give my fellow curmudgeons and xmess haters a safe place to express how they really feel. I'm going to pull together some topics in the next few days and start to send them out to an opt-in mailing list (Click HERE) and if I can find the time and brain power I may create a separate blog to host whatever mess I end up creating.
I can appreciate that there's a lot of love and goodwill built up around the Reverb movement and I've certainly benefited from that so I hope you all understand this isn't any kind of rebellion or backlash against it or against those who have decided to carry on the tradition (FWIW, I was one of those people in 2011 and it's a bitch of a job so they all deserve a great deal of thanks for what they're doing.) This is me and this is the space I've decided to create for myself and like-minded individuals who want to have a bit of fun. If you sign up, obviously you can write whatever the heck you want to - serious, funny, sad, angry or some mix of all of these things. My posts will be heavy on bad words and sprinkled with humour (I hope).
I'm just doing this off the cuff so it won't be professional or pretty or well organized and I have no idea how many prompts I'll have or on what kind of schedule I will send them out but The Flying Spaghetti Monster willing, the first one will go out tomorrow. If you're deeply offended (or shit, even appreciative) please feel free to email me, comment below, unfollow me, burn me in effigy, or whatever else feels natural. I've blathered on way too much now so there's no way I'm going to go back and proofread this so... yeah.
Peace,
Brad
<this post first appeared on my regular blog>
Naturally I tried to return to the fount and decided to look into some of the prompts being offered for Reverb13. The problem was that none of them resonated with me. I'm in a different place now and quite frankly it's anything but upbeat and I'm not in the mood for celebratory or inspirational posts. Please understand that this is NOT meant to take away from the hundreds or thousands of you who ARE. I applaud you and honestly wish things were different for me this year, but they're not.
So I've decided to do something about it. I've decided to relaunch my own Reverb type project but to focus on all of the stuff that so often goes unsaid. I want to give my fellow curmudgeons and xmess haters a safe place to express how they really feel. I'm going to pull together some topics in the next few days and start to send them out to an opt-in mailing list (Click HERE) and if I can find the time and brain power I may create a separate blog to host whatever mess I end up creating.
I can appreciate that there's a lot of love and goodwill built up around the Reverb movement and I've certainly benefited from that so I hope you all understand this isn't any kind of rebellion or backlash against it or against those who have decided to carry on the tradition (FWIW, I was one of those people in 2011 and it's a bitch of a job so they all deserve a great deal of thanks for what they're doing.) This is me and this is the space I've decided to create for myself and like-minded individuals who want to have a bit of fun. If you sign up, obviously you can write whatever the heck you want to - serious, funny, sad, angry or some mix of all of these things. My posts will be heavy on bad words and sprinkled with humour (I hope).
I'm just doing this off the cuff so it won't be professional or pretty or well organized and I have no idea how many prompts I'll have or on what kind of schedule I will send them out but The Flying Spaghetti Monster willing, the first one will go out tomorrow. If you're deeply offended (or shit, even appreciative) please feel free to email me, comment below, unfollow me, burn me in effigy, or whatever else feels natural. I've blathered on way too much now so there's no way I'm going to go back and proofread this so... yeah.
Peace,
Brad
<this post first appeared on my regular blog>
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