Even though the same basic principles apply to all blogs, different topics require slightly different perspectives.
What about writers? Especially fiction writers?
Even though it’s crucial to have an online presence, to use all the tools at your disposal to find and interact with potential readers for your books, what do you blog about?
Specifically, what do you blog about in such a way as to cater to the target audience of your writing?
Because this is the main issues: a lot of writers blog about writing, self-publishing, and book promotion, which in term attracts other aspiring writers, who are not in their target demographic for their books.
Simply put, most writers blog about stuff that readers don’t care about.
But do not worry, here are seven post ideas to get you started. Continue reading “7 Creative Blog Post Ideas for Writers”
If you were to look at the night sky with your naked eye, you’d spot some 3,000 stars. Use a small telescope, and the number increases to close to 100,000.
You spend all night hunched over your keyboard, punching those damn keys. You write your heart out, even if your hands shake. You search for the perfect picture, rummage through your brain for that brilliant opening line, for the ending that will leave your readers in awe.
Imagine you’d just decide to send out a lot of Christmas cards early in the month of December — to complete strangers.
In order to get what you want, you must become the kind of person who has it. This means you need to evolve, to become someone else.
People think that writing is a magic skill, mostly because it seems you’re creating something out of nothing.
Every once in a while someone figures the following things out: just how many posts I write and publish across the blogs that I own and operate. And, inevitably, they send me a quick e-mail or comment on a post asking me just how do I manage to write that much.