Previously a writer on Squidoo 2008- folded. then Hubpages on May 2, 2015 -2025
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My name is Kim, I’m from Yonkers, NY lived here all my life. I’ve always had cats, the first one (TomJerry) we had was at my Pop-Pop’s when I was 2 1/2-3 years old and chose us by standing near Dad’s old VW Bug’s car tire like “take me home or run me over!” All of the cats we’ve had have had their own personalities.
My last one Sully, was a very special cat. I called her my familiar (sort of as a joke) as she’s a black cat. She’s very smart and loved Shrimp (we had to spell it out!) I have 2 pages I have to publish on her Sully cat (a MEOWography) and Sully Tales
My current cat Nuggit is a tortie she’s the first cat I’ve had that doesn’t have a person name as she was a “Fuzz Nuggit” when I got her which was just a day or few after she was born. Eyes closed, had to bottle feed her and she has the tortie-tude! Actually more than that! from the time she could walk around if I pointed at her and said “No” in na stern voice she’d lunge at my finger like you don’t tell me what to do! you can find my little character on INstagram @fuzz_nuggit she even inspir3ed me to write up this guide so to speak Kitten care (all about Nuggit)
When I was maybe in grade school if not a tot, I won a fish at the fair so we bought 2 friends for him and I named them Gilligan Skipper & the silver one was professor!
I love watching movies, reading, writing and old fashioned Pen Paling!!!
If we live without Passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. BUT we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truely dead— -Joss Whedon (btvs)
Writing
I love writing and reading and am currently just posting my writing all over as I have written on squidoo (I signed up in 2008) then they closed and our ‘lenses’ migrated to Hubpages which is now clipping its wires (got the notice Nov 2025 it will happen in January 2026 and (it’s their own fault, they kept making too many changes and it was fine before they started that, so in this case change was not good!)
I wrote some articles on bubble news which closed and NEVER notified us so we could save our work
I tried writing a story (vampire, being as they say write what you know) years back in 2005 sadly I stopped pretty much for the fact that the Ethan Hawke movie about vampires was somewhat the same idea as I had (or at least part of it)
I am now working on 2 stories one about a writer, and another is a zombie ‘story’. The zombie story however I’m doing in a way I haven’t seen done as a book. I also have notes for another story, one set in the future; problem is someone else might have to write that. I’ve got the ideas just not the plot(s) or characters or the story itself. It may have to be written in the form of an old school History class text book.
I was previously a lensmaster on Squidoo.com, they closed and now Hubpages (which nis suppose to close in 2026, Bubblenews, Flixter (actor bios) Creators.co, and a few blogs. I write on a variety of topics, like Biographies, on actors or musicians Beauty, Entertainment, and lots more.
You can find most of the pages among my blogs (see side bar for banners) the main blog here which can lead you to any of the other niche topics (Zi’s Beauty Balm,Crafter Crums, Miss Musings Writing Essentials, and Multi-screen MoTiVision an Entertainment blog..) And can find the banners for the blogs in the side bar.
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Greetings, my name is Kim,
I love reading & writing and have received 3 Editor’s choice awards for poems that were published in anthologies. My fave book series are the Otherworld series by Yasmine Galenorn, the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward & the Stephanie Plum Novels by Janet Evanovich. On a more minor note the Sneaky Pie and Rita Mae Brown Mysteries. Then there’s anything Norse Culture or mythology
Craft projects mostly include making jewlery, sewing, Adult coloring books, I do have a nice suggestion for a product here as well as a couple how tos. I mostly make earrings, work on my never ending Patchwork (I want to make it as big as I possibly can.) make Pillow, pillowcasses, and bags. If interested You can find information on the jewelry I make on the Crafter Crums Blog’ K3O page in the menu)
I still write pen pal letters by snail mail (I’ve been pen paling since summer of 1994) Wanted to be an actor when I was little and I guess that’s why I still dress up on Halloween; I also wanted to be a journalist and may not be in a professional seat but technically I am now, between this,and my blogs!
Selfie on the beach
Through the Looking Glass
I originally heard about squidoo years back (forget which but 2006 comes to mind) in a local newspaper article. They said something like its the next Wiki only with wiki I’ve found some mistakes and those who post on it write a humdrum report. Of the lenses I’ve read & looked over there are a lot of passionate people here and its so much more interesting to read the lenses than wiki pages.
Another thing I liked about squidoo, is everyone is so nice. It’s a ‘workplace’ where everyone gets along! (or so seems) I get to do something I LOVE which is writing and tell you about my interests or a topic that at some point inspired me to write.
Unlike another site where I did something like this (but they stopped the program) Squidoo at least pays royalties (if you use amazon, ebay & text links) So you get paid even though its not a regular base salary (getting paid wekly or bi-weekly, which would help more even if it were to be every other week) I can at least (maybe) use this on a resume. Also in a way I see it as a ‘writer’s Training. I have published a Why I Squidoo page (not sure eif published yet)and will end up ‘repeating’ myself.
I have also seen the lenses espcially my Epic Ballad of Poetry Evolve each time I’ve added to it and such. It evolved not only as a poetry page, but I also had some creative writing information on it as well, which then got its own lens then a writing blog! You learn more as you go, and pick things up here and there. So just when you think you’ve created a lens that will have minimum maintenance, then you learn something new, guess what its time to update!
What i did before the hub bub
I used to write for Squidoo.com and made it to ‘Giant Squid’ rank of Mammoth, with 10 Purple star awards, and including at the time including my Works in Progres, had over 200 pages written. Until they got rid of the Program. I was also a SquidAngel. What do I usually write about? a variety of things, writing, what I’ve read, watched, basically Entertainment. Also have written Bios on some actors and bands. Instead of me going on about them..
Zi…By the numbers:
210- number of Lenses I’ve written & current works in progress as of July 2014
150= promoted’ to Mammoth Giant Squid January 2014
100= lenses Milestone hit in summer of 2013! (w/ J.R. Wards Black Dagger Brotherhood. & Mammoth Giant Squid rank reached January 23 2014
75 lenses badge February 11, 2013
50 lenses reached October 2012 I became a GIANT Squid monster rank having 50 lenses.
10=Purple star lenses as of March 2014 . To name a few:
*The first Lens receiving the honor was Pen Pal Introduction and Etiquette,
*October 2012 Dracula Day
*Silly Sully
*Terrific Toronto
*The Last to receive honror was Yasmine Galenorn's Otherworld in January 2014
3- Editor’s choice awards for Anthologies my poems have been in
1-Gold Medal for the Reading Olympics (March of Dimes)
1-lens that have made it (so far) to the home page rotation
0 – Lens of the Day – regardless of How much work I’ve put into any of my lenses, Or how many weeks lenses were In the top 100 I sadly have not received any.
You can see a few of my poems on the Epic Ballad of Poetry’ as well as on my other blogs’ pages and a highlight in my Instagram. I am also writing a story or 2 (see unveiling my story).
CLUBS
Adventure Club member May 11, 2013
Pop Culture Club member April 17 2013
Book Club September 24, 2012
Celebrate December 18, 2012
Food Club December 13, 2012
Became a Squid Angel March 22 2013 What was a Squidangel?
We helped out the community, as well were able to ‘rate’ the pages
This what my criteria was as far as rating lenses and which will now go for Hubpages as well
The main thing I’m looking for is content
*topic information for instance 3-4 text or text with big picture modules
*Youtube or Photo gallery (or both)
*the way links are situated.
-if you have a lens that looks like all links or amazon or other section of the same ilk that does not seem to fit your lens, everything else can be perfect, but this will ruin it.
*Comments- we don’t need to see 100 comments try limiting the comments for us to see between 5-20 (5-10 looks the neatest)
*Featured Lenses We do not need to se a list of 50 lenses.. 5-10 are fine and make things less cluttered looking
The End of Squidoo- On August 15, 2014, they announced HubPages acquired Squidoo. By October, Squidoo pages and accounts had been transferred to HubPages, making it the largest site of its kind
On HUBPAGES I had 11 Accolades
I have also written on Bubblenews I figure to test out a few sites and see what of the formats i feel most comfortable with, and like the look of best as well.
My USB Powered fan light
Super Bright 2 in 1 Laptop LED Lamp & Fan USB Powered – White (72-059W)
I got this from my Aunt in Virginia for the 2012 holidays and I was so happy to see it! I don’t think I even noticed what the color was I was just happy to see a fan & light in one & its USB powered! Or as I call the gift; The Writer’s Work is never done’ gift. You can plug it into your laptop, Coputer or router’s USB and the fan works pretty well, I thiunk it was the main reason I was so happy to receive this because there’s times during the spring & summer that are not really hot, but in the living room where the desk is, always feels 10-20 degrees warmer than it is outside. I’ve been using it already & it keeps me cool enough (so far) for a little thing it makes some noise but you eventually get used to it & don’t realise its there. The light is bright but compared to the other I had, its much better. It seems more focused to the area of the desk than the ‘yellow’ light the other one threw (which also got hot) plus was seen in one of the bedrooms so this one is a definate purchase even if you are traveling! The blade of the fan is like vinyl or something & if you should get your hand it doesn’t cut you or really hurt. Thoguh everytime I get wacked by it (when turning on the light or turning off the fan) i jump when it gets me. (You know back in the days fans were made with metal and those blades would cut your fingers off or at least REALLY hurt & bruise the bone at least.) This is a definate A+ item. (even if just workjing at a laptop)
Polling the masses
So What would you say is my Writing Style?
- Journalist
- Storyteller
- Critic
- Other (Please note what in Comments)
What is my writing style ~
I am curious to know what my readers would say.
While I’d like to think I can vary my writing style, something tells me it does not.
Everyone has their own style of writing some write more like a story teller, others sound more like a news anchor.
So please give a read through some of my Hubs (if you have not already) and let me know what you think.
If you don’t mind could you please note what one(s) it was you read.
Mini Me!
My profiles
- Zi’s Beauty Balm | For EVERYones beauty needs
For EVERYones beauty needs - Multi-screen MO-T-Vision | Entertainment at your fingertips
Entertainment at your fingertips - Miss Musings writing essentials
- Crafter Crums
- zodiacimmortal | Scorpio & Halloween Queen & Whatever in between
Scorpio & Halloween Queen & Whatever in between - My YouTube feed
Videos of my crafts, cat Sully, as well as some pets of relatives as well as other assorted videos recorded for my ‘articles’ on squidoo and other pages - My Facebook
Nothing specific I post here & there if I see a post I like or am able to post a picture, especially of something I made! - Follow me on Twitter – Ky♏ #ZodiacImmortal (kymoDragon)
The latest from Ky♏ #ZodiacImmortal (@kymoDragon). ☥۩ }o{{19}}—^ ☠ Squidoo Lens Writer, Poet, & creative nut http://paper.li/kymoDragon/1319752145. Yonkers, NY - &ZodiacImmortal on – Bubblews
Content creation and discovery platform where users can come to express their opinions, meet like-minded individuals and be compensated for their posts. - Kim-oto Dragon’s Fire
basically a daily ‘diary’ but I publish it weekly. I have I do have a page called Summer sizzle which is basically all that is summer. I do plan to do topic write ups as well.
Some of my favorites
TV- Oh my there’s a lot adn about 5 that You bother me during I’ll bite your head off! Being Its Summer I’ll say True Blood
Movie- Overall I have to say Jaws as that was the first ‘horror’ movie I remember seeing Lost Boys, Avatar,
Band- Godsmack
Animal- Cats
Car- Reality a mustang not so much a Lamborgini
Book- I don’t think I have one particular favorite but The first I remember reading is Bunnicula (as well as some Shazam book for a March of Dimes ‘Reading Olympics’)
Pet- Cat (Sully)
Flower- Black Magic Rose or Bat Flower
colors- Red & Purple
Amused Eminem wrote a song called Kim, just not sure if I herd it yet.
Interests & Hobbies
I like to watch movies especially horror and supernatural stuff. To me Movies, tv and books are supposed to be a break from the real world so I really do take that break and get emerced into the story.
When it comes to reading a book most of the time i am able to, depending on the author’s writing style. There have been a few books I had to stop reading because it was a chore to even read a page or 2. I have
My Favorite Authors & series are:
*Yasmine Galenorn Otherworld series
*J.R. Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood
*Janet Evanovich Stephanie plum series.
As for tv I make my own grid so I can keep track what night and times the shows come on, espeically when the new seasons start. It’s a big help esp, when there are multiple shows on one night it helps me to figure out what to watch live, (which is usually whatever channel I get watch the show on demand for free (usually like HBO starz etc movie stations) Otherwise I can watch shows free from network and most if not all of the othe cable channels, though at least some if not most cable stations re-air the shows the same night as well as sometimes during the week. It seems Mondays & Sundays are the killer for me. I think wednsdays are going to be soon as well.
To list my favorite shows well… that’s hard. There’s varying degrees. All time, by season, all seasons and so on.
My must watch network and cable shows of previous years is Walking Dead, Arrow, The Strain, Big Brother (my summer guilty pleasure if I can stand the people, 2013… I stopped watching after I think 2 episodes. Hollywood Game night, Hannibal, American Horror Story and there’s a few more.
I’ve always loved being Crafty & I think in my case you can somewhat say the Craftermath (- the the mess you have created after doing crafts) never ends! I don’t scrapbook though I do have some stuff in case I want to put a page or so together (which I did for one halloween. it came out cute but I don’t think it’s my forte. I like upcycling items like tins, cans, and boxes to be reused for other things. There’s a few different things I can do with the tins so they are a bit easier. I also enjoy making my own jewelry though sadly the craft stores by me do not always have what I am looking for, and now Joann’s is gone and online isn’t always good as sometimes I have to see the gauge size in front of me to be sure if its the size I’m looking for.
I also paint a bit, but for fun; I can’t draw well, at least not as well as I’d like (say to draw or paint dragons, portraits etc.) I have a few different journals and quite a few blank ones as well.
Feb 2013 1 of my lenses on Squidoo was Featured
Facts about me
-I love Horror movies as well as thrillers, mysteries, action with some sci-fi thrown in, same goes for what I like to read as well as my favorite tv shows.
-I have written over 100 poems written and 3 have been published in anthologies Carvings in Stone, Forever Spoken and I forget the title of the other, and have received Editors’ Choice awards.
-I’m a nut when it comes to Halloween…or Oreos! There’s even a certain time I get a craving for them (this I believe is due to when I’d sleep over my friend Natalie’s house, here mom would give us Oreos and Milk we had to be in bed either 9 or 9:30, but we were aloud to stay up and watch a movie. I’m telling you, you can just about set your watch by it!)
-I enjoy making jewlery, so far it’s mostly only been bracelets & earrings, which I enjoy giving as gifts or if someone wants to commission me to make something.
-I have a lovely beautiful black cat named Sully after my favorite band Godsmack’s lead singer Sully Erna. (She sadly passed on in 2018)
-My Favorite Charity is Best Friends animal sanctuary, and Sully an I would love to be able to make a donation on behalf of my Blog Followers
and please just leave a memo its for Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Even if everyone donates just $2.00 each. (I try to do a fundraising for them for my birthday onm Facebook.
– I’m a big reader and in 2013 I read 38 books, 2014 didn’t count and this year I’m not counting, just trying to get books read and sold or donated. You can see more about it on my entertainment site Multiscreen MoTVision (Hoover on Book nook or select that page itself)
-Each year we have a ‘Cabin Fever Reliever‘ usually in February before,after or during the weekend of the 18th/19th. (a family friend’s & my mom’s b-days!)
– Movies that I love to watch that a lot of people you know don’t seem to like
Pacific Rim, Battleship, The Monster Squad
–Things to do in winter
writing, reading & crafts
– Favorite singers (any genre)
Sully Erna of Godsmack
– Writers that people should be reading
Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum Series)
Yasmine Galenorn (Otherworld series)
J.R. Ward (The Black Dagger Brotherhood)
– Favorite tricks to kick start your writing juices
I re-read through un-finished poems & that sometimes helps get a few more lines if not finished.
You can find what my 2015 reading was here Goodreads
1. Which song is your go-to song, and why? any by of Godsmack or Hold the Heathen Hammer High by Tyr Jeckyl and Hyde by 5 Finger Death Punch
2. Who would you dress up as for Halloween? as an actual person? Not likely, I follow tradition and dress to be scary (2014) I was an Egyptian Priestess Mummy
3. If you could have a conversation with any person, alive or dead, who would it be? my Pop-pop I would love to hear the story he used to tell me when I was little
4. Which virtual game do you like the most? I don’t really play games much. But my Favorite arcade game was Rampage which I have for one of the older playstation systems. (We still have Playstation 1 & 2 & Sega Saturn! that’s how into video games we are here!)
5. Which book(s) are you really fond of? Stephen King’s Cell; love the metaphor (there’s a few others see #17 )
Yasmine Galenorn’s Otherworld Series Janet Evanovich – Stephanie Plum series J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood
6. What is your craziest aspiration? After going to around 10 Godsmack concerts, it would be nice to at least get backstage even for just a minute to meet them. (or for their traditional 8:15 tequila shot.. &I don’t like tequila but still)
7. If you were to create a piece of art, what would it look like? as for paintings… not good at drawing or anything but I have done 3 so far. 8x10s. They’re supposed to be the ‘Elements’ collection. First was water, 2nd was a cemetery (represents Earth & Spirit and the bat in it air) and the last is a volcano
8. Is there any poem or quote that has stuck with you?(also see # 12)off the top of my head
“I have nothing to say to you, but through the mouths of my cannons” – Frontnac (sp?)
9. Is there anyone whose hair you really envy? Loved the ‘Voodoo Queen’s in American Horror Story: Coven or Lagertha’s braids in Vikings. my hair is down to my butt so I’d like to get something done with it like those
10 Why did you start blogging? I had a blog before hand but was never really into blogging much maybe I just wasn’t sure what the ‘point’ was but I started my blogs on here because I wrote on squidoo for a few years and it closed down and the pages that transferred from there to Hubpages well they don’t all work so well with the site. So I’m trying to work some of those into pages on my blogs.
11 Where do you find your inspiration? variety of places, another blog may give me an idea or I liked what I read so I reblog it. A magazine article like an upcoming one I will post (hopefully today either here or on my Multi Screen Mo_T_Vision one as it’s sort of to help with the holidays
12. What’s your favorite quote or poem? one of mine own or not? If not my own… The Raven by Edgar Allen poe I know it’s sort of cliche but I haven’t read many others. Another is by a friend & a bit of humor called ‘The Public Fart’ can’t read it without laughing my butt off! As for one of my own, I’d have to say Storm or Through the Eyes of the Gods (both published Storm in anthology Carvings in Stone on page 89 and Through the Eyes of the Gods in the anthology Forever Spoken.
13. What’s your dream destination? There’s a few places I’d like to travel Australia, Hawaii, Poland, Czech republic, England, Ireland
14. If you could be any animal, which one would you be and why? My Cat sully cause she’s a spoiled brat!
15. Is there a childhood memory that got stuck with you? not that I can think of at the moment
16. Do you have a favorite comfort food? Oreos (when I’d go to a friends house and sleep over, her mom always gave us Oreos and this was about 9 or 9:30 we’d have to at least get in bed. SO if I get a craving for Oreos you know its within the 9 pm hour.
17. What’s your favorite author/book? Authors = Yasmine Galenorn, J.R. Ward & Janet Evanovich Books= The Paths we choose by Sully Erna The Stake by Richard Laymon Murder on the Prowl by Rita Mae brown & Sneaky Pie Brown Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein *A Flaw in the Blood byStephanie Brown The Physic Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe I’m the Vampire That’s why by Michele Bardsley A dirty job by Christopher Moore
18. Is there a random act of kindness you either witnessed or performed? One I often do is give my extra coupons (that may expire that day, or if I won’t be back before hand) to the people behind me.
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