WRITE A PAGE A DAY! #WRITEAPAGEADAY #BLOGCHATTER
Here I am at the end of a month of writing on February 29th,
a taxing yet enjoyable exercise which I managed to hang on to by the skin of my
teeth.
#WriteAPageADay by #Blogchatter challenges writers to
write across the month and complete ten thousand words. So, there I was, all
set to take the bit between my teeth and canter on, despite dire threats from
my better half.
“Don’t you already have enough to do in a day without
this added complication?”
I nodded, mulling over how to work it out. Being in
school from 9AM to 4.30PM is a major chunk out of a day, no doubt. I could always
do away with my evening walk! Wait a minute… what evening walk? That had
already been done away with in my previous challenges.
My better half and I both believe in the adage, “Eat well
today for tomorrow you diet!” Hence, there are days we gorge, mostly on
weekends, and then come back to our senses and our diets the rest of the week.
Makes cooking a whole lot easier!
Dinner? What could be easier than making hot and crisp dosas
to be eaten right off the stove, while watching our favourite series and movies?
Anyway, sandwiched in between all these activities, my
brain cells were on a permanent overdrive, wondering what exactly I could write
on each day. Often, I would start writing without an idea of where I was going,
running blind, if I may say so. Somehow, the words would magically form
themselves in a kind of woozy pattern, swirling in the air around me like so
many little jigsaw pieces, till finally they rearranged themselves into coherent
little wholes that dovetailed into my daily posts.
29 days of relentless writing – I would like to brag a
bit here. I had completed my 10,000 words by my 13th post. Then a
kind Blogchatter soul, Geethica, gave me a gentle nudge suggesting that I could
continue writing till the end of the month.
Exactly what I did! I wrote short stories, a poem or two,
a couple of book reviews, sharing apt images from Unsplash and Freepik, a process
I truly enjoy. Everything was going well till two days before the end of the
month.
Crash! Wham! My Facebook and my Instagram accounts got
hacked and there I was, supposedly doling out free financial advice to all and
sundry on how to make money grow on trees and make clothing lines sell. As I
lost control of my precious accounts, I had frantic messages and calls from
people along with screenshots about the mayhem the fraudster was wreaking on
them.
I sent equally frantic mails to the support staff of
Facebook and Instagram about the hacking, hoping against hope that a miracle
would take place. When it did not, I went ahead and created a new Facebook
account. I am yet to create an Instagram account.
After much heartbreak, there looms a lesson learnt the hard
way!
Never trust anyone on social media. If a person messages
you, always be on your guard, especially when the language spoken appears fake
or the demands unnatural. As I have said earlier, there is a special place
reserved for fraudsters who manage to hoodwink people online, invading their personal
space, that place being the hottest part of hell.
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