Bot-Bombed

When I first saw the term bot-bombed, I gathered it was a bad thing, but hadn’t a clue what it meant.  At ryan2pointo.wordpress.com I learned the damage a bot-bomb can do to a business. For authors, the bot-bomb damage becomes relevant when we have books to sell, and we need accurate tracking of  site traffic to gauge ratios of sales to traffic, etc.

Ryan Tracey of ryan2pointo.wordpress.com discusses the tools out there to fix the problem if you get bot-bombed. He also explains why bot-bombing may happen.

http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/ive-been-bot-bombed/#comment-3151

Give It to Your Subconscious Mind

A reader posed a problem she is struggling with. She outlined a new story she is writing, but she is unhappy with its beginning. She questions whether it gets to the action quickly enough to hook her reader.

Without even thinking, I said to her, “Give it to your subconscious mind to solve the problem.”

Weird, you may think. However, I have found that when I am stuck, if I leave the problem alone and allow my subconscious mind to work on it, my mind will eventually present me with a solution that works well. It often is an approach I wouldn’t normally consider, but it ties together all the loose ends with a nice flourish.

Wouldn’t we save ourselves a lot of angst if we simply said to our brains, “Chew on this and get back to me with a solution.” Then we could turn our energies to something positive and constructive, rather than exhaust ourselves by fretting.

The sole requirement to make this plan work is patience. If you have patience, fine. You have no problem. If you are like me — short on patience — using the technique will help you develop some.