A Writer’s Personal Friday Struggle Bus, week 42

Victim of deferred maintenance!

Does this bus need an alignment? A road map to Camp Lejeune? Gasoline?

The Struggle for Answers

B.S. from Cleveland asks, “why do you not get bat scat for reads when you have so many followers?”

I know I harp about this endlessly, so I hope you find it refreshing when this morning I point out to you a story I just read from Kristina God.

Maybe according to that story, Medium doesn’t like me. Maybe nobody likes me, or I should say, likes my writing.

Many don’t like my features. Many don’t care for my humor. And I admit, my sense of humor is odd sometimes.

So I keep trying harder and harder to make people like me. Let me sit at the cool kids’ lunch table. All my life I’ve been trying to make people like me.

Jerry, from Dayton, wants to know if the MRI doctor really told me about my sense of humor last week.

No, Jerry, the MRI finally revealed the stupid way I walk and my clumsiness is due to MS, something which I may or may not start to include in my writing, and something I have been blessed with a very light case of. Some people are quite ill with it.

You readers know I often use my sense of humor as a defense mechanism. Especially concerning doctors. Needless to say, when I found out about my medical condition, I laughed my *ss off.

Does that answer your question, Jerry?

The Struggle for Beauty

Beauty achieved, no further struggle needed.

The Struggle for Services

This struggle will probably begin to increase but hasn’t yet.

The Struggle to Write.

Since the words all but fly out of my fertile brain on a fairly constant basis, this struggle is never really much of a factor here.

It’s readers I worry about.

Change my topics? Change my style? Keep my humor to myself? So many possibilities and so little time. And after one of my professional visits last week, I think there may be even less time than that.

So I have decided not to worry too much about changing too much about my writing. I hope I can get my 1000 true friends quickly, but if not, my writing will still be out there, if anyone accidentally does like it.

I might even double down. Write more. Worse puns. Stupider non-sequiturs. Raging insensitivities.

Tough.

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Coming Attractions

If the old Struggle Bus readership doesn’t pick up, we’ll introduce a “Struggle for Readers” section!

Subscribe HERE, as soon as you can. For instance, if I happen to be talking to a big-shot editor about publishing something of mine, and they ask how many subscribers I have to my website or newsletter, help me be able not to reply “duh…”

Today’s topic- when a Medium reader clicks the Medium button for email delivery of the new works of an author, who sends it to them today? Does Medium send it automatically? Does the author need to send it? Can the author add that email address to his off-medium newsletter?

I’ve read dozens of stories trying to get answers, but the answers about emailing are all over the map, change from month to month, or are just plain insufficient.

Does anyone out there know the current answers? I would surely be beholden.

Thanks so much. Later!

Don’s a keen observer and prolific reporter of truth, common sense, humor, & life. He is a WRITER|CREATOR|HUMORIST — based in Nashville, enjoying and reporting the absurd on his website daily, and sent in a weekly newsletter to your inbox. Don@DonMartinBooks.com — Follow at twitter.com/DonMartinBooks.

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