Blogging is so hard. Are you tempted to quit? Or maybe quit just this week? Next week, you’ll get back to it. Surely. Guess what folks, meeting the simple discipline of your weekly or twice-weekly blog post will hone you for dealing with what can be a big issue in the publishing world: the temptation […]
Is blogging necessary for authors?
Some writers just aren’t cut out for regular blogging. In fact they can’t think of something they’d less rather do. Publishers seem to want it though. What to do? Author and writing educator Susan May Warren has a thought: don’t blog. Instead, have a website with a newsletter signup on the first page. And use […]
Writing viral blog articles
What you want is for people to pass your blog articles on to their friends. This is marketing gone viral, just exactly what you want the most. So, how do you get that to happen? A useful article is a must, of course. But a catchy title will propel it. Why is that? Most people […]
“I want to quit my blog.”
Writers, people may be telling you to first of all have a website, and secondly put a blog on the website. But regular blog posts are hard to keep up. Let’s say you manage to post to your new blog regularly (at least twice a week at first) for a while, and then assess your […]