{"id":92,"date":"2011-06-15T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2011-07-01T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:47:54","slug":"practice-used-as-a-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Practice Used as a Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s all fun and games until the flying monkeys attack.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Inspired by The Wizard of Oz<\/p>\n

The word practice can be used as both a noun and a verb.\u00a0 Today, we usually see it used as a noun: My Yoga Practice, My Meditation Practice and for me \u2500 My Writing Practice. We don\u2019t often see it used as a\u00a0verb. \u00a0I think this is largely due to the fact that we live in times of instant gratification. Everything is fast: food, instant downloading of music, books, movies and communication using email, Skype, Twitter and Facebook. \u00a0Let\u2019s face it, we don\u2019t wait for much.\u00a0 Practice used as a verb tends to be sloooooooooooow, repetitive, \u00a0time consuming, often boring and a lot work.\u00a0 I can remember practicing Palmer Method writing \u2500 endlessly! I had a hard time wth the letter “r”.<\/p>\n

This is me practicing blogging as opposed to it being My Blog Practice.\u00a0 I used this quote because it sums up what I have been doing here.\u00a0 Setting up and announcing the blog was definitely all fun and games. It was great to be able to say, \u201cCome read my blog.\u201d But now the flying monkeys are attacking and I have to actually practice blogging.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My approach has been to slink around a lot of blogs.\u00a0 There are several that I was already reading regularly. I really enjoy The Hen Blog <\/a>by Terry Golson\u00a0<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Watching Terry\u2019s chickens can make even the gloomiest day bearable.\u00a0\u00a0Terry is a\u00a0 professional chef\u00a0 and food writer\u00a0who sometimes posts wonderful recipes, too.\u00a0She knows all about chickens. \u00a0There are lots of blogs out there and they are all different.\u00a0 The key to successful blogging\u00a0is discovering\u00a0what makes the reader want to come back. So, of course, I return to the blogger book. In fact, now I have another book (but you probably already knew that.) Branding Yourself\u00a0 <\/a>by Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy. Having already selected the platform (WordPress) which is part of the fun and games, I move onto the monkeys. I need to:<\/p>\n