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Two years ago I opened a post office box. I did this to prepare for all the help that I would provide wanna be writers. I like to be prepared. Countless accounts on Twitter were begging for help with their respective writing projects. Begging as in can ANYONE help proofread my work? I thought Hey! I'm an anyone! I scored a 500 on the six credit english composition CLEP without any preparation, not that you could tell by my writing, that's a different story for another time.
I sincerely like to help people for free so I opened the PO box and started to DM my address to all these people. Well I found out over two years that I must not be an ANYONE. I have never been messaged back nor have I received any manuscripts.
The few that have self published thru Amazon, well, I have read your work. They all have errors. Most common was too, to, two, usage. #2. was the, most often spelled he. #3. tale. Monsters don't have six feet tales, maybe tailes.
When I worked at KSC and the Cape I collected a lot of memorabilia. The organization I worked for had flight kit space on each shuttle and we could include small light patches and mini flags on the missions into orbit. Weight versus chemical rocket propulsion is always a concern so everything had to be light.
Not knowing what to do with boxes of stuff, my kids never showed interest in what I did, I decided to start sending things to people in this group on twitter that I hung out with, turn the PO box into a positive thing. I was able to send a collectable STS challenge coin to one very interesting lady whom I like to talk to and a small cloth american flag, with the official flight kit letter, that went to space to a very funny lady that I share a birthdate with.
With that success I started to DM other people that belonged to this group a year ago and ask them if they would be interested in any of this launch stuff. I received no response. Not one in a year.
I have closed my PO box and turned the keys in.
So much for the social part of social media.
So that is my tail, or is it tale...
I sincerely like to help people for free so I opened the PO box and started to DM my address to all these people. Well I found out over two years that I must not be an ANYONE. I have never been messaged back nor have I received any manuscripts.
The few that have self published thru Amazon, well, I have read your work. They all have errors. Most common was too, to, two, usage. #2. was the, most often spelled he. #3. tale. Monsters don't have six feet tales, maybe tailes.
When I worked at KSC and the Cape I collected a lot of memorabilia. The organization I worked for had flight kit space on each shuttle and we could include small light patches and mini flags on the missions into orbit. Weight versus chemical rocket propulsion is always a concern so everything had to be light.
Not knowing what to do with boxes of stuff, my kids never showed interest in what I did, I decided to start sending things to people in this group on twitter that I hung out with, turn the PO box into a positive thing. I was able to send a collectable STS challenge coin to one very interesting lady whom I like to talk to and a small cloth american flag, with the official flight kit letter, that went to space to a very funny lady that I share a birthdate with.
With that success I started to DM other people that belonged to this group a year ago and ask them if they would be interested in any of this launch stuff. I received no response. Not one in a year.
I have closed my PO box and turned the keys in.
So much for the social part of social media.
So that is my tail, or is it tale...
I'm sorry, I can't help chuckling. Part of awareness in social media is putting this out into the forum two years ago and reminding people with links so they'll know what's going on. 
I really would like to see more in this thread now, and I bet others would, too. It's your call.
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