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[neonlyte]

How to get published?
Are e-books worth the effort?

We are not alone except when we write... if you exclude Madame Muse and her cohorts.

I've always found blogging to be an insular experience - any thoughts?

 

[rgraham666]

I never know what to blog about.

 

[Liar]

I never know what to blog about.

Me niether. Tired once, but it became too much pressure to try and be interresting on a regular basis.

 

[sr71plt]

I've thought of blogging as a waste of precious time--either to write or to read.

 

[impressive]

I mostly just hype my releases and reviews and (occasionally) awards. I envy the bloggers who are "interesting on a regular basis." It takes a lot of energy. I'm only interesting once in a while.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Blogging is delightful. Everything is grist for the mill.

Take our governor for example. He's 51 years old, never married, never been seen with a female, and suddenly he's engaged (at the same time he wants to be McCain's VP). It's curious.

I'm thinking the situation proves that the right woman can cure a man of anything.

On the other-hand he told the paper his girlfriend is the first woman he's ever known who has everything he wants in a female. That's mighty curious, too. EVERYTHING, Charlie?

Yesterday I came across a sanitized edition of Uncle Remus' Tales. Reading it, you'd think Uncle Remus and the critters are regulars on Sesame Street. I specks duh writers is sproshered up! The book deserves a blog. I may write it entirely using slave vernacular, cos I duz it so gud. Maybe title the blog Equal Time for the Brothers (Brer means brother, as does Buh and Bru and Bro).

I also read a book titled LANGUAGE POLICE by a Clinton appointee who researched the deterioration of language skills in public schools. To my surprise, and I shouldnt have been surprised, the Religious Right is responsible for a large hunk of Political Correctness. So this will make an interesting blog, too.

If your mind is omnivorous you can blog anything.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I mostly just hype my releases and reviews and (occasionally) awards. I envy the bloggers who are "interesting on a regular basis." It takes a lot of energy. I'm only interesting once in a while.

You beat me. I'm never interesting.

 

[3113]

How to get published?
Are e-books worth the effort?

Gosh, Neonlyte, thanks for making us all feel so unique and special

I've always found blogging to be an insular experience - any thoughts?

As compared to what? When we write a story or novel or screenplay or poem? I don't know about you, but even when I'm out writing with others at a coffee house, it's a pretty insular experience.

What else is writing than talking to yourself? At least the blogs can get an immediate response and know that they're not talking to themselves. A published book takes a year to come out and then most authors never know what people thought of it until someone writes a sucky review on Amazon.

 

[bluebell]

I just blogged about what it feels like to eat three baby carrots at once (weird).
Shrug.
I never promised I would do it regularly, or that it would make sense or that it would be interesting to anyone but me. I just need a couple different places to file my collection of odd thoughts. Most of them come here but I can tell what needs where and who.
Besides, it's much more fun when you accept that no one's going to read it anyway, so you can just say whatever you want.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I remember reading once that less than 5% of all musicians make a living from it. I'll bet in writing it's less than 1%.

I've always found the idea of autobiographical blogs to be terribly sad. If I were going to blog, I'd lie my ass off to make it interesting, which means I'd be writing fiction, which is what I already do.

 

[neonlyte]

Gosh, Neonlyte, thanks for making us all feel so unique and special

It's a cruel world I was researching and stumbled across it.

As compared to what? When we write a story or novel or screenplay or poem? I don't know about you, but even when I'm out writing with others at a coffee house, it's a pretty insular experience.

What else is writing than talking to yourself? At least the blogs can get an immediate response and know that they're not talking to themselves. A published book takes a year to come out and then most authors never know what people thought of it until someone writes a sucky review on Amazon.

Good points all... compared to what indeed. I'm in Mab's way of thinking when it comes to blogs.

At a writers workshop some years ago, I got speaking with a Professor of History who'd written three historical novels. He asked me where I wrote, I told him Lit and explained how the system worked. His eyes glazed over... 'feedback,' he said, 'you mean people actually tell you what they think about your work.' Who knows, maybe he's one of us now.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

DOC

What you say is true. The odds of becoming King or Clancy or Cornwell or Steele are maybe worse than getting an NFL contract. But utility writers can make valuable contributions.

One of my ancestors wrote her autobiography and published it in 1869. It chronicles her life from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It is packed with details about her experiences as a girl, wife, mother, teacher, settler in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois. She knew Abe Lincoln.

But the book had limited appeal back then. Its now used in the Kentucky Schools because it chronicles what life was like for females 200 years ago on the Frontier.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I've thought of blogging as a waste of precious time--either to write or to read.

It's both. When I was blogging every day, I didn't write a word. And read even less. I can't seem to do both.

It's a creative drain for a writer, I think... unless you are incredibly prolific.

Now, actors like Wil Wheaton, they can write blogs!

 

[impressive]

It's both. When I was blogging every day, I didn't write a word. And read even less. I can't seem to do both.

It's a creative drain for a writer, I think... unless you are incredibly prolific.

Now, actors like Wil Wheaton, they can write blogs!

Wesley Crusher blogs?

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Wil Wheaton has one of the most popular blogs on the 'net.

(don't feel bad, I didn't know either, until recently!)

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I have been blogging for years. I used to just talk about my day-to-day, but lately it is more of a log of my poker wins and losses, with the occasional mention of my martial arts progress, or something important happening in my life.

I have never asked about getting published though...

 

[MagicaPractica]

I've thought about blogging but I think I'd need a much more interesting life. Jennifer Crusie has done a good blog about writing with her partner, Bob Mayer, the various things they are working on and the day to day of life. If I were a published author writing and promoting books, I might be able to manage it. Right now, no way. Shonda Rimes also does a pretty good blog.

 

[tickledkitty]

Anybody blog to advertise your stories?

 

[rgraham666]

Anybody blog to advertise your stories?

Me.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Wil Wheaton has one of the most popular blogs on the 'net.

(don't feel bad, I didn't know either, until recently!)

I'll bet a shiny new penny that he has people who blog for him. He may have oversight on what is written, but he don't write it, IMHO.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I'll bet a shiny new penny that he has people who blog for him. He may have oversight on what is written, but he don't write it, IMHO.

He's written two books. I think it's really him. Nothing saying an actor can't be a talented writer...

 

[CeriseNoire]

I have a blog on my Cerise myspace, but since I try to keep that erotic-writing related only, there's not that much for me to say. I occasionally post something if I get a piece published or if I have a stack of rejections.

These days I have an LJ as my real(ish) self, where I just put randomness. It's practical in keeping my real-life friends up to date since they're scattered across the country (and world as the case happens to be). That said, call me old school, but I keep the real navel-gazing/inner thoughts confined to a physical, paper, journal.

JBJ, about PC talk turning the language to mush, you might enjoy a book called Junk English. It's amusing and spreads the blame rather evenly for the things being done to the language.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I blog to meet women.

 

[rgraham666]

I blog to meet women.

Is it working for you as well as it is for me?

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Is it working for you as well as it is for me?

Well, Not for physical contact no, but I've gotten some pretty hot pm's.