Blogging: What Do You Think?
I'll do better at blogging, really! Today's just chit chat.
I did blog yesterday at the Brava Website and everyone was so nice. It was my first time.
I'm transitioning from mystery writer to romance writer, and I really hadn't given it much thought until I wrote that blog. I've always had romance in my mysteries, so it's not a big stretch for me. In fact romances these days are so much more diverse with all kinds of different plots, subplots, and ever paranormal worlds. It was interesting to see if readers over at the Brava blog liked the direction that romances are going.
I'm wondering what you all think about blogging? I love the personal connection it creates, but I also have trouble keeping up. Between writing, research, promotion, email...the computer seems to rule my life. And yet, blogs can brighten my day with a laugh (Jill Shalves is priceless!), or provide information, or too many things to mention. So what do you all thing of blogging?
posted by Jennifer at 9:31 AM
8 Comments:
Hi Jen!
so happy to see a new blog here! Funny, Kate Carlisle and I were just blogging back and forth about how many blogs we visit.
We BOTH visit Jill's every day. She's a total crackup and her life is just way interesting! LOL..
I like blogs. But it's really easy to get sucked into Blog Slutship! Just wandering across the web, reading what everyone's got to say!!
Great displacement activity for writers!
All blogs are not created equal.
There are seven I visit faithfully, each and everyday and several times each day. I read for the blog and the answers. Just because an author is published doesn't always translate into good blogdom. These bloggess (all are written by females) are witty and interesting. Not all deal with writing. All that I continue to visit draw me in with topic, banter, and community.
I, on the other hand, submit new content to my own blog once in a rare while. I write for me, because people gave up on me a long time ago and to be totally honest, I'm not that interesting.
Blogging has led me to read between 15 and 20 new authors. People I'd have not read before if not for blogs. I love this medium.
Hey Jen! I like blogs, too, but I get sucked into the vortex, too, like Maureen. Still, it's so fascinating and fun. And heck, who doesn't love Jill's blog? She's hilarious, and most of her entries are short and sweet, which makes it easy to stop by for just a minute.
And I'm with Cele in that I've discovered a number of new authors just by checking out any links listed and also by reading the comments.
So keep blogging, will ya?!
As a reader, I like reading author's blog. Most are entertaining and enlightening with lively conversation.
I've also discovered so many new authors that I would have never known before.
I think blogging is a good thing.
Jennifer, if you're going to write romance novels, does that mean there will be no more Samantha Shaw books?
As a book junkie I've located the blogs of several authors and I have found it's a great way to watch for their new releases. Sure, I know when the new release will be but the author reminds me in the blog. Also there are contests for free books.(I love those, even though I've never won) Of course, there is always interesting chit chat.
I'm always scouting for my next book or series and I've found new authors to try because of blogs.
Maureen, LOL on the Blog Slutship...can I sign up for membership?
Cele, you're convincing me that blogging is good!
Kate, I have to keep blogging or go into Witness Protection because of You Know Who :-)
DA, I wish I knew about future Samantha Shaw books! Right now, my publisher wants me to write these romantic mysteries. By the way, they do have mystery/suspense in them. We'll see what happens.
Marie, you made good points too! I've found authors to read through blogs too.
Thanks all!
Jen,
Little by little I have been lured into the lurk (and occasional post) of blogs. Yes, it is addictive. And I toyed with the idea of having my own, only to back away, unable to find the time or the words.
Then there was a sweetly innocent post on Dana Diamond's blog, asking me if I had a blog. I stammered. I shook my head. I froze. I admitted in writing that I just didn't have the wittiness of my fellow writers like you and Maureen and Dana and Michele and countless others.
Well, one thing led to another, and I tried. And tried. And tried. Every time I would try to create a blog and post for the first time. I just couldn't do it. Brain dead.
Then it dawned on me how similar it is to sitting down and writing the first page of the book. But of course a single blog must be far less intimidating. And I realized that having a blog (even if no one reads it) could be just the daily exercise I need to spark my writing again. Instead of Julia Cameron's "Morning Pages" to get the juices flowing, I could commit to "Morning Blog" to warm up the fingers. What an inspiring idea.
So I bit the bullet...or blog, as it were. And joined the blogging world this morning.
Gillian, that's wonderful that you've decided to blog!
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