My friend Janette Rallison discovered by accident that mentioning Orlando Bloom on her blog spiked the number of hits she got to all time highs. Now I would never mention Orlando Bloom just to raise my hits. I wouldn’t mention Orlando Bloom two or three times or put his name in a header or anything like that… That would be like stuffing the ballot box! However, I was checking my visitor stats yesterday and was surprised to see that over the last few days I’ve had four times as many visitors as I usually do and Orlando had nothing to do with it!!!

After a little investigation, I found out why. It turns out that they’re talking about my cliche article over on the National Novel Writing Month website! Not only did they link back to me, but there’s a really interesting dialogue going in the comments section. So hop on over there, and if you leave a comment, you might want to mention Orlando just to help me return the favour!