Why I Blog
by
C. Lee McKenzie
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I started blogging because my publisher told me to, and back then I did everything my publisher told me to do. The interesting thing that happened is this: I liked it. So why?
I learned a lot of new stuff for one thing, and that’s always a motivator for me. I had to figure out which program to set my blog up on, and then how to use it. Blogger worked for me because it didn’t have a long learning curve. I quickly learned where the undo button was, so what could go wrong?
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I quickly learned that, too. A lot could go wrong if I didn’t have content that was of value. What was valuable content anyway? I wasn’t a marketing guru. I didn’t have hot tips for writers. What was my platform? What was a platform? See? I had a lot to learn, so I kept going.
Then I discovered things like Awards and Hops and Groups. Yay! Now I was on a roll because more than the family cat was reading what I posted.
Then just as I had this blogging thing down, I burned out. Yep. Dry as a summer hill in California, and it happened overnight. I was quitting. I was burrowing into my writer’s cave and blowing off all this blogging business.
So why didn’t I? Why did I take a break and return? Here’s one reason: I missed the contact with the people I’d connected with. I missed knowing when they had new releases or rejections or a great new WIP.
Was there any other reason? I thought about that and decided that without blogging I might have continued to read within my preferred genres. I wouldn’t have sampled books that I usually passed up. Because I was curious about what writer friends had created and I wanted to support their work, I found myself reading much more widely.
And that thing about showing up to the blank page? Well, blogging taught me a lot about doing that every single day.
So why blog? I guess those are three compelling reasons for me.
- Bish Denham gets my ARC of The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow
- Beverly Stowe McClure gets my signed copy of Woven
- L.L. gets my signed copy of Shooting Kabul.
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Hats Off Corner Welcomes Stephen Tremp
Salem’s Daughters,
is supernatural thriller.
Visit Stephen at his BLOG.
Quote for the Day: “The different and the novel are sweet, but regularity and repetition are also teachers.” Poet Mary Oliver
Why do you blog? Ever think of giving up? Does Salem’s Daughters look interesting?