Editing The Pen Addict 122/transcript (section)

== Inklinks Feedback ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' The comments I got on the Inklinks are all hugely positive on the first sentence. And then the second sentence is, oh, I'm going to miss it. But I understand, you know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It surprised me, you know, because you're taking something away and you're not really. You're not you're not replacing it with anything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that's what you think.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, but that's what everyone sees.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, like, you know, you say I'm taking this. I mean, typically you say I'm taking this away, but don't worry, you're going to get this. And you didn't do that. You're just kind of like, I'm going to continue doing what I've always done. I'll make sure to talk to talk about people when I feel necessary. But you haven't said like, but now on Saturdays, you're going to get a picture of me in a cat costume.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. You know, because I did when I made that post, I didn't have a plan. But I knew it had to stop.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But now I have a plan and it starts on Saturday.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Are you willing to share what the plan is?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh. I'm interested.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I will tell you, I want to focus on, I want to keep sharing the stories and the work and the websites of other bloggers in the community. But I want to do it in a more direct fashion. How about that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. I mean, I can make assumptions about what that is. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's not rocket science.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But it's different. It's just a different thing. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate that because I never took to Inklinks personally. Right. I've never said that to you before, but it was always, it always has been just a post that I mark as red. Right. Because I get nothing out of it personally. Sure. Because I'm not interested in looking at just a link, like a list of links to things. And I'm sure that the people that love it, like adore it. Yeah. And you probably, and then it's probably just people like me that are like, meh, whatever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I started to get into the meh, whatever phase. And that's when I knew it had to end. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You see, when you're, if you get like that, then that's that. Yeah. That's the thing of any sort of creative project. Right. If you get like that, then your readers, listeners, viewers will get like that too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So this one, I just had to cut the cord on. It was time to cut the cord and do something different. I'll do something more direct, you know, to continue to share, you know, other, other people in the community and other people, not in the pen community, but that are, you know, interesting, interesting people and talk about them, you know, in a more specific manner. So that's starting up this weekend. And, you know, I love doing ink links for so many years because I wanted to discover stuff. Right. That's how it started. And, you know, I just used to get, you know, energized by finding something cool or new or unique. And, you know, all that stuff, there's still lots of cool and new and unique out there, but, you know, I feel a little bit differently about the ink links post in general. So we'll see. Maybe the new thing I'm going to do isn't great, but I'm pretty happy with it. It's going to be a little bit more meaningful, I think, if you will. And that's important to me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' A couple of very important updates from the chat room. Everyone's blaming me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' For?

'''Myke Hurley:''' For the inklings going away. Oh. That's my fault. And there's been, they've taken a vote and it's been passed in full favor of seeing you in a cat costume on Saturday. So there's also that to do with.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I should read the chat room more. Can I ban people? You can't. I'm just kidding. No, that's funny. You know what? If I had a costume, cat costume, I would absolutely do it. You know, I would do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But the thing is, though, I know your address and I have access to Amazon. So don't push that button too much.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I'll do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm proud of you. Not for the cat costume, but just for everything. I'm happy. I'm happy that you're making some changes and I'm excited. I'm excited to see where it's going to go. And I'm pleased that you haven't killed the podcast again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, God, no. No, I'm, I feel like I haven't even hit my stride yet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I must warn you that next week is 123. Just, just let you know, whenever you want to start that stride to you, just go right for it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I just feel like there's a lot more to do. Hey, this is, this is all good stuff. So, I mean, you know, everything's, everything's cruising along and there's going to be changes. There's going to be bumps in the road. Some of it won't be easy and some of it, you know, I'm going to make some mistakes and put my foot in my mouth, I'm sure, in some places. But you know what? You know, we're just going to keep going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's the way to do it, man. If you want to find the links to everything that we've spoken about today, you want to head over to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 122. You want to keep an eye on penaddict.com, which is where Brad writes. You want to keep an eye on there on the 30th because Brad mentioned he's going to be doing something XO related there. With the field notes. And also, he, we want to keep an eye this weekend as well. See what, see what Mr. Dowdy's up to. And we are on Twitter. I'm iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. And Brad is at Dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. On the relay.fm slash penaddict page, you're also going to find all of the information you need about contacting us by email. If that's what you'd like to do, you can just hit the little contact button. We've spoken quite a bit about sponsoring. If you want to sponsor the penaddict podcast, all the information is there as well. Relay.fm slash sponsor. Thank you so much to our sponsors for this week. Our friends over at the Pen Chalet and Harry's. And, you know, we talk about how great Ron is. Ron has emailed us during the show. I haven't opened my email. I got a little notification a moment ago. And he's had a really good idea. So that's going to help with further spots in the future. Awesome. Thanks so much for listening to this week's episode of The Pen Addict. Until next time, bye-bye. Bye. Bye. !

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