Writer's Blogs?

[MatthewVett]

I just started a writing blog, and I was wondering whether any other authors had one. I'm always sort of interested in people's social media presence in general. So what kind of stuff do people have?

PS: Mine is here: http://liquidmatthew.wordpress.com/

 

[PennLady]

You can check mine, the link is in my sig, but here it is: http://evemcfadden.wordpress.com. I'm due to blog again, no doubt. I haven't gotten into a good routine.

 

[topace]

Mine is in my sig but for those who have those disabled it's:

WhiteEagle's Aerie

PS. I also do a weekly podcast there as well.

 

[estragon]

I have a blog, but it's not anything about writing; it's about taxes. The farthest thing from this site you could imagine.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

I keep wrestling with whether I want to start one or not. I worry that I won't have a lot to talk about... but I am interested in knowing who else has one.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I just started a writing blog, and I was wondering whether any other authors had one. I'm always sort of interested in people's social media presence in general. So what kind of stuff do people have?

PS: Mine is here: http://liquidmatthew.wordpress.com/

You can check mine, the link is in my sig, but here it is: http://evemcfadden.wordpress.com. I'm due to blog again, no doubt. I haven't gotten into a good routine.

Mine is in my sig but for those who have those disabled it's:

WhiteEagle's Aerie

PS. I also do a weekly podcast there as well.

Mine is in my sig but for those who have those disabled it's:

WhiteEagle's Aerie

PS. I also do a weekly podcast there as well.

I keep wrestling with whether I want to start one or not. I worry that I won't have a lot to talk about... but I am interested in knowing who else has one.

I don't have one, and this is why. Everyone, their brother, their sister, their mother, their step-kids... It's a new trend; the new MyFace, or SpaceBook, or Tweet-a-holic, or whatever the fucked-up retarded shit is... Everyone's so worried about using their own voice (being the center of their own attention) that they don't realize, we're all too busy updating our seventeen important pages to read anyone else's. People are making millions upon millions of dollars giving us things to do besides compete with them in a "fair market."

We keep falling for it.

Q_C

 

[bashfullyshameless]

I don't have one, and this is why. Everyone, their brother, their sister, their mother, their step-kids... It's a new trend; the new MyFace, or SpaceBook, or Tweet-a-holic, or whatever the fucked-up retarded shit is... Everyone's so worried about using their own voice (being the center of their own attention) that they don't realize, we're all too busy updating our seventeen important pages to read anyone else's. People are making millions upon millions of dollars giving us things to do besides compete with them in a "fair market."

We keep falling for it.

Q_C

I see nothing wrong with blogging. Some people express themselves much better in writing than in oral communication. (I'm one of them; I'm eloquent enough in person, and I can hold a conversation or even hold a room, but I'm just plain better in writing.) Beyond that, sometimes you have something to share that doesn't fit into nice, tidy conversational snippets wherein others can insert their comments or questions--because that runs the risk of changing the subject, but monologuing at them is also kind of rude. Blogs offer a way to overcome all that.

Plus, most people have friends, relatives, interested parties or whatever who don't live in the same town and don't see you regularly. Maintaining a blog allows you to let them all know how you're doing without explaining the same thing five times to five different audiences.

And, frankly, many writers on this site DO have significant, faithful readerships. They have actual fans, who enjoy knowing what their favorite writers are up to, or what they might share on a blog that doesn't really fit here on Literotica (or wherever else they might post).

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I see nothing wrong with blogging. Some people express themselves much better in writing than in oral communication. (I'm one of them; I'm eloquent enough in person, and I can hold a conversation or even hold a room, but I'm just plain better in writing.) Beyond that, sometimes you have something to share that doesn't fit into nice, tidy conversational snippets wherein others can insert their comments or questions--because that runs the risk of changing the subject, but monologuing at them is also kind of rude. Blogs offer a way to overcome all that.

A diary or journal would solve this...

Plus, most people have friends, relatives, interested parties or whatever who don't live in the same town and don't see you regularly. Maintaining a blog allows you to let them all know how you're doing without explaining the same thing five times to five different audiences.

This makes sense on some level, but if you're concerned about this particular Group of people, you can always just send emails to multiple people at once. Or make copies and mail letters; it's a lost art and underrated. If anything, a blog that is available to everyone minimizes the "personal" touch that said relations should enjoy.

And, frankly, many writers on this site DO have significant, faithful readerships. They have actual fans, who enjoy knowing what their favorite writers are up to, or what they might share on a blog that doesn't really fit here on Literotica (or wherever else they might post).

If they're interested in more than when your next work is coming out or if a new one has recently, their not readerships, though fans might be accurate. Fan is short for fanatic, which isn't good though is often harmless. A fan or readership member shouldn't care what's going on in your life at all outside of your work, with the exception of things that affect your work. I'm a Stephen King fan, and my concerns are 2: Is he alive and well, and when does his next book come out (although I've stopped paying attention since his every two years I retire routine started getting old, but that's circumstantial).

Q_C

 

[talismania]

I have a blog. I enjoy it. It's my own little place where people can stop in and visit and maybe say "Hi." They can find out more about me if they want to, or about my books, or just have fun.

I don't have a lot of followers, though that number is growing, but I get a lot of traffic. New people are finding me through my blog. I know this because they've told me that's how they found me. So that's nice.

Also, if you're interested in being published, publishers and agents do check out your blogs when you submit your work. I know this because I got a book offer a day after the publisher joined my blog and followed me on Twitter.

Blogs aren't for everyone and it's true most readers won't care or ever read them. That's not who they're for. They're for the readers who do care, and a way to meet and know other writers and people in your area of interest. And they're great fun for those who enjoy virtual hanging out.

 

[MarieWriter]

blogging

I looked over a few of them, as I look over lots of them here and there from all walks of blogging, from erotica to political...

So this is NOT, I repeat for the sake of avoiding the argument that's sure to follow, this is NOT a comment on the content of ANY blog...

However, I thought that blogs were supposed to be like, between one or two hundred words, not paragraphs or page after page of goodies...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I post daily notes to FACEBOOK. Todays snippets involved my experiences with the adult entertainment industry, Roy Blacks defense of murderers, and some thoughts about sheet metal work as it applies to making steel armor suits and classic automobile body replication. Yesterday I talked about using geometry for land survey work, plus comments about how to correctly hang a screen door.

 

[estragon]

I looked over a few of them, as I look over lots of them here and there from all walks of blogging, from erotica to political...

So this is NOT, I repeat for the sake of avoiding the argument that's sure to follow, this is NOT a comment on the content of ANY blog...

However, I thought that blogs were supposed to be like, between one or two hundred words, not paragraphs or page after page of goodies...

Marie, blogs, like your mileage, will vary. I sent you a sample of mine, which you saw was far too technical to be amusing to anyone not a professional. I may post sometimes fewer than 400 words, sometimes more than a thousand, depending upon what the courts and the IRS are up to. And almost never anything personal.

 

[_Lynn_]

I don't have one, and this is why. Everyone, their brother, their sister, their mother, their step-kids... It's a new trend; the new MyFace, or SpaceBook, or Tweet-a-holic, or whatever the fucked-up retarded shit is... Everyone's so worried about using their own voice (being the center of their own attention) that they don't realize, we're all too busy updating our seventeen important pages to read anyone else's. People are making millions upon millions of dollars giving us things to do besides compete with them in a "fair market."

We keep falling for it.

Q_C

To some extent, I agree with this.

 

[TinyBeth]

I had a blog on my old Myspace account and it paved the way for me getting a weekly column first in an email newsletter and then for a website. It was about as far removed from erotica as it gets. It didn't pay, but as of now neither does this. I DID have a pretty decent readership on both the blog and the website.

I have thought about getting another blog for my "normal" life, but actually I think at this point I might be more likely to do one associated with my erotic writing. The main issue is the time. Between everything else I am doing I don't think I have time for a blog on top of it all and it would certainly cost me time I could be putting into my stories instead.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

I used to blog at livejournal - it got me writing again. I wound up maintain three separate blogs - one for my stories, one to discuss my stores and a personal blog for non-story related crap. I got lost defining my purpose for having a blog. I've read lots of blogs that tend to be so broad and varied they read like mental diarrhea. I'm not that interested in most strangers.

I did have an idea about using a series of blogs as a storytelling platform. Three or four different blogs, each maintained by "character" in a bigger story and the story gets told by reading through the posts. If one reads just one character's blog - then all you get is their point of view about events and you miss out on the details that happened inbetween events. But if one reads the other blogs, then a fuller picture is told of what's really going on. I still like the idea - it's just too big for me tackle.

In general, I'm happier posting stories here at Lit and visiting the madness of the forums.

 

[topace]

I'll just say I use my blog to keep my readers informed about how my writing is coming along, and other stuff that's happening.

Since I'm the head of my own company (technically since I own 100% of the shares), what I say about my company is important.

 

[sonicely]

I have a blog. I enjoy it. It's my own little place where people can stop in and visit and maybe say "Hi." They can find out more about me if they want to, or about my books, or just have fun.

I don't have a lot of followers, though that number is growing, but I get a lot of traffic. New people are finding me through my blog. I know this because they've told me that's how they found me. So that's nice.

Also, if you're interested in being published, publishers and agents do check out your blogs when you submit your work. I know this because I got a book offer a day after the publisher joined my blog and followed me on Twitter.

Blogs aren't for everyone and it's true most readers won't care or ever read them. That's not who they're for. They're for the readers who do care, and a way to meet and know other writers and people in your area of interest. And they're great fun for those who enjoy virtual hanging out.

Thx for your blog...I've enjoyed it..... David

 

[sonicely]

Interesting comment...blogs can and do morph into websites.... perhaps talismania's could go that way and be even more substantial, link the blog to here website....

 

[sr71plt]

I think blogs and Web sites take more time and energy than they are worth. I've never blogged, and my two writing sites (one my professional editorial site and the other a Writer's Digest top 101 publishing advice site) are both coming down this spring because I'm moving into full-time writing. My publishers have Web sites showing my erotica and mainstream works and I have a Facebook page that shows the covers of my mainstream books as they are published. That's all I do. I'm more into writing then selling.

 

[Blind_Justice]

http://viewsfromcyberspace.tumblr.com/ is mine, but I've yet to get it off the ground. I don't know what I should write about in it. How great my stories are? How awesome my writing is? I don't feel right tooting my own horn that much. So I thought about using it to tell people when new stories are going up on Lit, but I could do the same right here in my Lit profile.

 

[sr71plt]

And you can announce your stories on the Story Feedback forum and your published books on the AH and get more people reading about it that either on your profile here or your blog or Web site (and with far less effort).

 

[johneb87]

NaokoSmith has a great one.
http://feministerotica.blogspot.co.uk/

Mine is not necessarily a writing blog, but at the moment, more of a travel blog.
http://johneb87.wordpress.com