A Year in Insta-Pics

'Tis the Season... to reflect on another trip around the sun.

Social Media is essentially just a microblog, and a great way to look back on what's happened throughout the year. 

My Twitter feed is endless, and Facebook much the same - aside from Facebook randomly flashing up 'memories' from years back - but Instagram, is a great way to look back on a chronological slideshow of snapshots.
 
Here I am...

Amy's Pretty Little Insta-Feed

(Follow me and I'll follow back..)
 
I'm going to go ahead and admit that I'm not a big fan of Instagram. 

As someone who uses a PC or Laptop as my primary device (I'm a writer, I need a keyboard), it irritates me that I'm forced to faff around with a stupid phone to share things; especially when the image was taken with a 'proper camera' (yes, some of us still use those). 

I end up copying images from my camera to Dropbox or emailing it to myself and saving it to the phone and then sharing it (pain in the backside!). 

I also find Instagram generally a bit clunky to use (although I do like the filters). As a consequence, I only post a picture every few days and it's often on impulse. It means my feed genuinely is a neat visual record of what was in my brain that day.

Here's some of my favourite pics from a rather lovely year...

A year filled with coffee, beer, cake, novelty stationery, books, writing, flowers, hats, art, beaches, cats and Bristolness!

What were your favourite moments (immortalised on Instagram or otherwise) from 2017?

Countdown to the Finish Line

This week for my

Operation Author: 

365 Actions to Becoming a Successful Author

...project I have dedicated much of my time to writing. The couple of actions I've completed were:





First Action: 

Scheduled plenty of tweets up to the New Year so I don't have to think about it over the Christmas break.

Follow me here:

https://twitter.com/TomCatDesigns






Second Action: 

I have plenty of stock of The Bronze Box and Solomon's Secrets at home and posted images on Facebook for anyone looking for last minute present ideas.

Third Action:

I've done some more dodgy artwork. 

I get quite a few followers on Pinterest, especially my 'Writing' board.

As an experiment, I've doodled an image for Pinterest to encourage people to connect with me on Facebook too.

Amy on Pinterest

 Here I am on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/amymorse184/

Speaking of Facebook, my Fourth Action was to schedule some regular tweets to try to reach 100 likes on my Facebook author page. 

I've picked up a few, but if you'd like to keep up to date with my adventures in writing, come over and say hello to me on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AmyCFitzjohn




We're down to the last 10 days of the year and the end of this project. I'm cheating slightly, this is what I'm going to do next and I'll update you again in January with my progress.

Here's my plan for a 10 day countdown to 2015

Ten

Plan my 10 remaining actions (Check!)

Nine

Complete the chapter I am working on for Gabriel's Game

Eight

Put together some content for my next 365 project

Seven

I have 6 more chapters to complete for Gabriel's game. Finish one of them

Six

It's Christmas Day! I've some business and writing books on my present list - Let's hope I get some of them.

I'll fit in some writing if I can, but I suspect I'll be eating and drinking and being merry

Five

I'm hosting family but should be able to fit in some writing at the end of the day after they leave. Finish a chapter

Four

I'm hosting more family but have a plan for a treasure hunt to entertain my niece and nephew which involves some creative clue writing - I'll make my last minute preparations before they arrive

Three

Finish the last of the chapters

Two

It's my birthday! I'm going to London but one thing I want to do is visit the British Museum and I'll be using it as an opportunity to do some research ready for my re-writes

One

Do some last tweaks, structural changes and write any extra passages needed to connect the first draft up

Zero

Happy New Year! Now my next 365 Project starts and so do the re-writes and edits.

(Is it weird that as I wrote this countdown I had the theme to Thunderbirds in my head?)

 

And here's a final dodgy doodle for you: