Comments on: A Journey and a Vehicle!

By: terry

terry — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:10:59 +0000

Sorry, just getting to grips with the fact you have three blogs…3! …..Okay, I’m better now.
Just keep on writing whatever you want, Graham, you’re an interesting enough guy for lots folks to want to stop by and see what you’ve got to say.
RSS feeds are an efficient organisational tool for those of us who like to follow a few folk. Your blog is never all about you and navel gazing (“today I used a blue pen, not the black”) so feel confident enough to follow your instincts.
Just don’t stop, I need some sanity to balance my innate anarchy.
terry

By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:37:13 +0000

Ruzkin, how true! (I’m also a Scalzi follower.) I should have no trouble proving I’m human I’ll just

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By: ruzkin

ruzkin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:26:37 +0000

A common lament! And what happens when you start feeling as if you’ve run out of things to contribute outside your novels?
I guess that, for many people, a writer’s blog is good enough so long as it allows a little peek into their life, and allows the fan to share that life. Not every post has to be about writing, novels, agents and the like (Scalzi and Gaiman being good examples). Sometimes, all a blog needs to do is prove that you’re human.

By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:01:39 +0000

I’m with you on that, Graham. My RSS feed is packed with themed blogs on a variety of topics but very few blogs that are just people talking. Same with my Twitter follows.

Maybe that’s why I’ve never been into Facebook. My daughter loves it (and doesn’t use Twitter). For her and her friends, Facebook has almost completely replaced email. It seems to serve as a conversational focus for tight cliques of friends in a way that Twitter doesn’t (which is probably partly because, if you don’t follow everyone in the world, you get a lot of one-sided conversations on Twitter – a big drawback, I think.)

By: Graham Clements

Graham Clements — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:14 +0000

Interesting article in the paper the other day about the asian blog awards (I think). The nominated Aussies said that Aussie blogs usually had a theme such as food, whereas bloggers from other Asian countries usually blog about whatever is happening in their lives. I prefer to read themed blogs on writing and speculative fiction.

By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:29:43 +0000

Unpublished (for now) maybe, but hardly unknown. You're definitely making a name for yourself with the e-fiction book club. It's true sometimes that people go to a blog to read about the writer, but not just any old writer. Some bloggers capture people's hearts (like Emma) some are celebrities in another area, some are just outstandingly interesting and entertaining (can't actually think of one of those who is also popular, though.) But the received wisdom on blogging - and this is definitely borne out by my experience - is that if you don't focus your blog on something, people are not going to turn up in large numbers.

By: Merrilee

Merrilee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:40:00 +0000

I think the problem is going from writing a blog for yourself, and writing for your readers.

I started by blog for the same reason; a place to chat about my writing. It’s a way to connect with other writers and spout off my opinion, for anyone who cares to listen.

I write all sorts of things; articles, rants, the occasional meme, sometimes just how I’m feeling and how the writing is progressing.

People come to blogs to read about the writer. If my readers didn’t want to hear from me, they wouldn’t come back. And I have a pretty reasonable readership, for an unknown, unpublished writer