Top Searches For My Site

I’m easily amused. It’s true. These are the top searches that got people to my site:

• Cow haiku / love haiku / haiku cow / cow haikus / haikus / haiku about cows / haiku on cows / a new form of poetry

What’s up with all those queries on cow haikus? Yes, I’ve got haikus on this blog. Haikus amuse me. I write them about mosquitoes, monsoon rains, and, yes, cows. Why not? They’re fun. They’re not great writing - they’re just… my own personal amusement. So, um, what do other people find interesting about cow haikus?

• peregrinas

Well, this one is just too logical. It is, after all, the name of my blog. But it’s not a real word - I made it up. So what are these people searching for - me or a word that doesn’t exist?

• writing spreadsheet / fiction writing spreadsheet / flylady spreadsheets

So, ignoring the flylady spreadsheets, it would seem to me that I could take this as a hint to update my WIP (work in progress) writing spreadsheet and post it here again. Ya think?

• hockey night in canada sticker

This just cracks me up. The Hockey Night in Canada post was part of an AW blog chain a year or so ago. I’m amused.

• kitten cannon / Kitty Cannon tips and tricks

Well, sure, I have a post on the Kitten Cannon. Fahim cracked the game and, well, we had fun with it. What’s not to love? Blood, gore, cartoons, and maimed kittens. It’s the perfect procrastination toy.

• query letters for magazines / freelance photographer query letter / query letters for photographers / Sample query letter for photographers

I’m not sure why the photographers are ending up here in conjunction with query letters. I don’t recall talking about both at the same time. *shrugs* Nevertheless, it reinforces the idea - to me - that I could do a few posts about query letters that work and query letters that are nothing short of horrendous.

• wesak poya in sri lanka / VESAK POYA 2008 / vesak poya / vesak wordings / vesak cards boo tree

Vesak Poya is a holiday here. Poya days are full moon days, holy to Buddhists. Vesak Poya is the holiest of them all. I’m sure I’ve mentioned, at least in passing, when it’s Vesak Poya or another Poya day here, just as I mention other local holidays. Still, I’m a little surprised at all the variations on Poya that wind up here, but perhaps it has something to do with the quantity of Sri Lankan blogs in proportion to blogs from elsewhere in the world?

• Richard Boyle, Sri Lanka / "richard boyle" flash designer / richard boyle sri lanka

Richard Boyle. Very nice man. Author of Knox’s Words and Sinbad in Serendib, along with much, much more. Editor for Travel Sri Lanka magazine, he also writes for all sorts of publications. He’s lived in Sri Lanka since about 1984. Yup, I mention him here and there.

• "Twenty Worst" agents / barbara bauer / people scamed by harris literary agency / site:lmashton.com top twenty

Oh, you have no idea how much seeing these search items show up here overjoys me. It gives me hope that people are finding sites that expose the scummy scammers.

• yapa / vijitha yapa

Vijitha Yapa is a major bookstore chain in Sri Lanka. Major here, however, means that it has a half dozen or perhaps a dozen locations, which is nothing compared to, say, Chapters or Barnes & Noble or Coles. But hey, this is a developing country after all. Vijitha Yapa is also where we mostly go to buy books. Because we love books. And, as I mentioned in a previous post, Vijitha Yapa has an online store from which those who are in countries other than Sri Lanka can order books written by Sri Lankan authors. Very cool and not entirely common here - most businesses still don’t have websites here, although that’s gradually changing.

• computer-generated essay / computer generated essays

This one worries me. Are these people looking for the computer generated essays for their own amusement or as a way to cheat in a course? Yikes!

Then there are these ones. Some give me ideas of other things to blog about, some are on topics that I have blogged about, and others I just wonder about:

• steps to planning a novel
• when did you decide you wanted to be a writer
• raiph romans
• how to figure out if using Ms. Mrs. or Mr. or Miss
• dragonally speaking
• Cultural shock divorse
• massive headache and tired
• treedbnotes versus keynotes
• fiction about in basement
• BIW car sections
• 500 words just about science
• wordpress collaborative writing tools
• whois websitewelcome.com DMCA
• "kristen king" edmonton
• strategies for procrastination
• storyteller runes
• sltnet internet so slow
• romance covers, funny
• Sri Lanka masks
• plautdeutsch
• "submitting to the black hole"
• Dvorak vs Qwerty
• picasso inner muse
• Blind carbon copy email cannot be forwarded
• site:lmashton.com editing
• infernal internal editor
• do i have it in myself to be a writer
• Planet Run Keith Laumer and Gordon R Dickson
• how to address a person when you don’t know their status? MR
• auria paint critique
• tor slush pile response time 2008
• fiction prolific wpm
• writing tips neil gaiman
• post your manuscript
• stephenie meyers
• obligation to make the world a better place

But the shocking ones?

• shocking arranged marriages stories
• "lankan Sex Scene"
• "tingling hair"
• mistress "mummify you"

What, about my blog, says anything about mistress mummify you? Seriously, what? And that Lankan sex scene with the incorrect capitalization - that reminds me altogether too much of that guy who emailed me a long time ago asking me to set him up with women who had hairy legs. O_0 Yikes!

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