poetry – Ella MacDonald

The “learning how to schedule a post” post

Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 by Ella R S MacDonald

As a new blogger, I thought I was getting the hang of things by drafting a post about Hallowe’en in advance of the day and scheduling it to post on October 31. But my post didn’t appear on the appointed day so clearly I haven’t learned that lesson yet. It seems I got the scheduling…

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