Should I blog?
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Re: Should I blog?
- moderntimes
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But I suppose that my Facebook stuff is kinda like a blog. And there I mostly talk about other stuff, and only mention my novels occasionally there.
What remains my major consideration, however, is whether anyone WANTS to read a blog from me about, duh, what I had for lunch or what TV show I watched. Boooring! Many of us would certainly be happy to know that there were folks out there who hung on our every word, but in all honesty, very few things we do are really of any pertinence to most other folks. Thankfully I'm not that vain.
Principal is this question: "What is the purpose of my blog?" If it's to clear my mind and entertain ideas which I may later use in a story, or to just set my thoughts down for internal housekeeping (brainkeeping?) then that blog should remain private. If however the purpose of my blog is to write some daily or weekly account of what I've done or seen or read or thought about, the question is still this: "Who the heck cares what I did last week?"
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The way I see it...you have a great concept: a blog for writers/ reviewers. This is a good "why" or reason to make a blog for struggling writers.
How?
Based on experience, there are a few things you have to consider:
Getting readers (my blog started off with friends from FB and I literally begged for "shares" for more exposure)
Time and money Investment (SEO to get your blog ranked higher may add to your budget. Time of course for quality articles that will create followers)
Connections (a lot of people to get talking about your blog or giving advise on how to make "sell")
A blog is kinda like selling your book but you can update it ....hope I was helpful
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- moderntimes
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When I write a book review, that's one thing. My blog page is another thing totally. My reviews are posted on another site and are unconnected with my blogs.
Agents? I may be wrong here but I kinda think that agents do not randomly browse the internet looking for blogs and read them. Agents spend their time working to place their clients' writing. That's what agents do. Agents do NOT search for new clients. It's the other way around -- prospective clients search for an agent. Or, if I'm wrong, someone correct me -- which writer was signed to an agency because an agent read the author's blog?
As far as an ability to write reviews goes, that is demonstrated by a review written, not by a blog. If someone is trying to find a "job" writing reviews, the best way to do this -- the only way, as I seem to remember -- is to write a test review and submit it to the magazine or newspaper or website which you'd like to review for, and usually, if the test review is decently written, the editor will try you out "for real" by sending you a new book to review.
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There are different kinds of blogs. There are Book Reviews Blogs as well.moderntimes wrote:I'm missing something here. Blogs aren't book reviews, are they? A blog about things is not the same as a focused book review for a book you've read.
When I write a book review, that's one thing. My blog page is another thing totally. My reviews are posted on another site and are unconnected with my blogs.
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- Gravy
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I also follow some author blogs, and other various types.
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Grief is just love with no place to go.
- moderntimes
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Can someone list a couple of these sites for me? Ya see, when I see "blog" I am thinking it's just a day to day "diary" of the writer's thoughts about stuff, literary and otherwise.
- Gravy
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Many authors have blogs, sometimes run by them, sometimes run by others, depending on how busy they are. You can find them by searching easy enough, and yes, some of them can seem a bit that way. I don't really tend toward those, but some do.moderntimes wrote:I was unaware of such blogs. Where do they appear? Are there general websites for book reviews, where reviews are posted by whomever? And yeah, I know this site, but the reviews here are controlled and are under scrutiny.
Can someone list a couple of these sites for me? Ya see, when I see "blog" I am thinking it's just a day to day "diary" of the writer's thoughts about stuff, literary and otherwise.
As for book review blogs, anyone can start one, and they're typically run by a single person as a hobby. Then you have the more professional ones. There's one I follow whose reviews are regularly blurbed in/on books.
As I highly doubt you'd be interested in any blog I frequent, I suggest you search for whatever genre of books you would normally read along with reviews, or blog. That should get you some results.
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I don't however blog or whatever for the "thrill" of telling someone what I ate for dinner or what TV show I watched. I only blog for info related to my private detective novels, and associated info on my books in publication, Amazon links, and such. And since my novels are modern private detective, I may also add a comment or two about other books or movies / TV shows of the mystery genre.
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