blogging I started the year with the aim of posting to a schedule, different topics on different days. A couple of days ago, I decided to scrap the idea. Why? Because I get inspired for all sorts of things at all sorts of times. I don't necessarily get inspired to write about writing on Wednesdays or about my cat on Saturdays. Yes, I could write the blogs at anytime and schedule them; that's what I've been doing, but then my blogs lose their relevance to what's happening in my life. One of the things I like about blogging is that it's immediate. Write it, publish it and talk about it. If I publish it five days after it was written, I'm not necessarily interested in it anymore. Also, I tend to write about related topics in bunches. That's the way of inspiration. You get an idea, you write about it, and it stimulates another related idea, so I might have masses of material on my cat in one week and nothing on writing or the other way around. Also, I'll probably be writing some … [Read more...]
What REALLY helps writers? Truth?
There is clearly a lot of support for writers within the writing community on the web, but if all we give each other is support, without real help, then not only are we not helping, we could also be hindering them as well. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be encouraging and supportive, no, no, no. These things are the very basis of our helping each other. What I’m saying is that support isn’t enough and that without real feedback on our work it could lead a writer to think that they are ready to publish when they’re not. I have been to blogsites where a writer has something up for you to look at. I read it and find flaws, but I don’t feel I can say so because all the other comments are glowing. I want to support the writer. I can see some good ideas there, but… in its present state it needs work, so I don’t comment. I don’t bookmark the site either. I’m guilty of not really helping. But if I was honest, how would it be read by others? If I was the only one to point out the spelling … [Read more...]
Links
Just a quicky to let you know that I've organised my links into convenient categories - writing links, author blogs, reviewers and supportive bloggers. The supportive bloggers are those who have helped get the word out about lethal Inheritance. … [Read more...]
