Liebster Blog Award

Yesterday, I stumbled onto my “About” page and found out that one of our own, thoughtofvg, gifted me the Liebster Blog Award.

The award gets passed on to excelled bloggers with fewer than 200 followers to recognize their efforts  to a larger audience.

Like ‘thoghtofvg’ I too love the German language (as chanonyx might tell you) so to earn an award that originated in Germany tickles my proverbial Wernicke’s area.

That sounded dirty. What I meant was, the language center of my brain is grateful.

The rules:

  1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog [check]
  2. Link back to the blogger who awarded you (for blends of thought and poetry, check out thoughtofvg) [checker check]
  3. Copy and paste the award on your blog [triple check]
  4. Present Liebster to 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve notoriety (see below) [quadruple check]
  5. Let ’em know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog [quintuple check]

I follow lots of blogs, but here are five underblogs I support first with my readership, and now with the Liebster Award:

Ellie Ann Soderstrom – This girl is what I imagine my fraternal twin sister would have been like. She’s smart, fun, writes for a younger audience than I, used to be in a digital writer’s group with me, not to mention that three of her sisters and her brother-in-law have also been in writers groups with me. She enjoys random nerd crap and we get on each others nerves if we spend too much time talking about the same thing. First you have your best friend who likes all the things you like for all the same reasons in all the same ways. Then you have your next best friend who likes all the things you like, but comes at it from COMPLETELY different angles than you do. You might even call them the wrong angles, but then again, your next best friend would probably say the same thing about you. Ellie’s like that, like a great sister. And she’s probably the most cheerful, supportive lady in my life outside of my bride, my biological sister, my mother and my grandmother. I support her as much or more than any other writer friend of mine and will call out a hit on anyone who gives her crap. I know a guy. His name’s Leon.

Mark Neunschwander – When I need photos, I call this dude. We braved the trenches of Whiskerino together. I’m actually typing this from inside his studio creepily staring at him while he rearranges things on the counter so that when he reads this later, he’ll be freaked out that he didn’t notice. He’s the go-to guy for Joplin big-city photography, one of the highlights of the growing Downtown Joplin scene and a dear friend. We’re also working on a photo book for what Mark affectionately refers to as “The ‘Nader’” (a.k.a The EF5 Tornado).

Chris Travis – Met this guy randomly at a wedding in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He’s a church planter in Manhattan and understands a little of the tension I feel between the writer and the pastor. Unlike many shady religious writers, Chris joined an already existing writers group in New York. There he discovered the works of Patrick Rothfuss and, to my knowledge, has never turned back.

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Yor Ryeter – Yor took on a rather ambitious undertaking: 10,000 pieces of writing. As I’m doing something similar, I sympathize with the struggle (I’m at 1,904 hours out of 10,000).

Lauren Schaubert – This is my biological sister, so of course I’m gonna brag on her. All those nice things I said about Ellie being my sister I say from the experience of having a PHENOMENAL little sister. Lauren’s writing very well, painting even better and thinking deeply for being a mere sophomore in high school. I’m proud to give this award finally to her newest blog Truly Naked.

Congrats everyone.


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  1. thoughtofvg

    some of those blogs really are fantastic-followed a couple of them 🙂

    1. lanceschaubert

      Yeah, I enjoy them. The “200 followers” stipulation was difficult, so I assumed it meant “200 wordpress followers.” I fit the bill under that, but if you add my Facebook and Twitter friends, I’m disqualified.

      Thanks for the award, tov.

  2. EllieAnn

    thank you so much, Lance! This whole post made me smile. Thanks for pairing me with such excellent writers and artists.
    We really are like siblings! hehe! I never thought of it that way, but we totally are. I totally support you, and feel totally comfortable around you to the point that I bicker about petty things, LoL.
    Thanks so much.

    1. lanceschaubert

      Well you certainly fit in right along with them, and you are more than welcome.

      It’s like the arabs say: “Me verses my brother, me and my brother verses my cousin, me and my cousin against you.” I figure I can pick on you, but if anyone else gives you crap, so help me I will pull a Taborlin and call down lightning on their face.

      You rock, sis. Keep shipping great art.

  3. Yor Ryeter

    Thank you Lanceschaubert!

    The only thing is I don’t struggle for my 10,000 to be reached because I enjoy writing and publishing. There are days when it’s hard to blog anything but that’s a challenge I never hate to do. It’s a long way to go but who knows I’ll live a hundred, as per calculation I only need 26 years to finish the first 10K. 😉

    1. lanceschaubert

      There you go! Keep at it.

  4. STYLEFIG by Kristina Shari

    Thanks for this post, reaaly great blogs!! I have had so many amazing comment’s about my new STYLEFIG blog (personal style blog) I take all the photo’s myself. Would love to know your opinion on my blog, since you have great experience and if you thing it could get norminated? I really want this blog to be a great succes and are making alot of effort…also because it is in english and I am Danish. Looking forward to hear from you. Many thanks, Kristina

Quick note from Lance about this post: when you choose to comment (or share this post with your friends) you help other readers just like you.

How?

Well, see, your comments & sharing whisper a few things to those who come after you:

The first is that this site is a safe place to speak up & stay curious. That it's civil. That discussion is encouraged. That there's no such thing as a stupid question (being a student of Socrates, I really and truly believe this). That talking to one another and growing together is more important than anything we could possibly publish. That the point is growing in virtue and growing together and growing wise. That discovery is invention, deference is originality, that we all can rise together. The only folks I'm going to take comments down from are obvious jerks who argue in bad faith, don't stay curious, or actively make personal attacks. And, frankly, I'd rather we talk here than on some social media farm — I will never show ads and the only thing I'm selling anywhere on the site or my mailing list is just the stuff I make.

You're also helping folks realize that anything you & they build together is far more important than anything you come to me to read. I take the things I write about seriously, but I don't take myself seriously: I play the fool, I hate cults of personality, and I also don't really like being the center of attention (believe it or not). I would much rather folks connect because of an introduction I've made or because they commented with one another back and forth and then build something beautiful together. My favorite contributions have been lifelong business and love partnerships from two people who have forgotten I introduced them. Some of my closest friends NOW I literally met on another blog's comment section fifteen years ago. I would love for that to happen here — let two of you meet and let me fade into the background.

Last, you help me revise. I'm wrong. Often. I'm not embarrassed to admit it or worried about being cancelled or publicly shamed. I make a fool out of myself (that's sort of the point). So as I get feedback, I can say, "I was wrong about that" and set a model for curious, consistent learning, and growing in wisdom. I'm blind to what I don't know and as grows the island of my knowledge so grows the shoreline of my ignorance. It's the recovery of innocence on the far end of experience: a child is in a permanent state of wonder. So are the wise: they aren't afraid of saying, "I don't know. That's new: please teach me." That's my goal, comments help. And I read all reviews: my skin's tough, but that's not license to be needlessly cruel. We teach one another our habits and there's a way to civilly demolish an idea without demolishing another person: just because I personally can take the world's meanest 1-star review doesn't mean we should teach one another how to be crueler on the internet.

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