These Are My JOTtings...

Experience is a Thorough Teacher

The fact that Writing.Com
has been in existence
for a longer time
than Facebook and Twitter
is truly amazing.

I am so grateful
that the leadership of Writing.Com
chose a format
that has stood
the test of time
as it continues to march on.

Somewhere around 2007 and 2008
I started my writing career in earnest
with the start-up sites
of Helium.Com and Sodahead.Com.

I wanted to make money with my writing,
and at least with Helium.Com
there was promise of pay,
if my work was meritorious.

In the past three years both of these websites
have stopped being accessible
to the common man like me.
Now, they are the purviews of marketing corporations.

I wrote hundreds of articles and poems
between the two of them,
but now I have no access
to any of my work at either website.

My personal copies of all my work
are scattered
among desktops and archive DVDs.

It feels like such a waste of time,
but neither The Lord
nor Experience
are in a hurry.
Nothing will be wasted.

Today, I continue to rebuild
a new portfolio of work
on Writing.Com.

Experience wounds to make Wise.
It is a process.

by Jay O'Toole
on May 20th, 2017