Open Book | TIPS FOR THE ASPIRING WRITER
How to Avoid Email Hubris and Costly Fines
Email hubris is spamming your friends and everyone else in your contact database without their consent. Like trying to resist a danish with coffee in the morning, it is hard to contain your enthusiasm. You want to share the next great product or service with everyone. To keep you in check from spewing forth [...]
Open Book: Is Blogging Overrated?
After blogging for a couple of years now, I am wondering if blogging is overrated. Yes, as a writer, you would think that this process is a no brainer and enjoyable. But in truth, it steals time from my day, from my other writing and reading, and although pleasurable, may or may not be all [...]
Open Book: Blog Content Basics
No two brands of ketchup taste the same. The basic ingredients may be similar — tomatoes (or tomato concentrate), sugar, vinegar, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, etc. — but the taste differences lie in the ingredient quality and proportion. And so it is with your blog. Your blog site is uniquely yours even though there may [...]
Open Book: Quick Ways to Get Your Blog Read
The writer…the teacher…the marketing guru in you emerges in a spanking new blog. I was told that if you write, the followers will come. True to some degree; however, your success will be measurably better if you write coherently and have something interesting to share (your opinion or some newsworthy mention). Well written blogs may [...]
Open Book: 3 Great Reasons for an Unpublished Novelist to Blog
People blog for many reasons, but for the unpublished novelist, blogging is a no brainer. I can’t remember which self-help guru wrote that if you want to be a novelist, you have to do what novelist do. If you imitate the behaviors of novelist, you will one day be that novelist. One of the behaviors [...]
How to Plot by Example
Are you a writer who can sit down and have dialogues and scenes stream onto the computer screen with little regard to structure? If you are, and are happy with your results, you are one of the lucky writers with a gift. Most writers need to craft the plot through scene summaries and outlines. I am not [...]
Tweeting about Twittering
I truly don’t know how anyone gets anything done, if they spend time with all these social media windows open on their computer. While I see the merits of staying connected, I also know someone’s every move, sharing every feeling with not just one or two seems like too much information. And pardon me for [...]
The Best Blogs on Writing
We spend so much time blogging and looking for good, consistent blogs on writing that when you find a great list already compiled, you feel like you hit the mother lode. You feel like sharing it with the world. And so I hit the mother lode yesterday. Christina Laun obviously has good taste and spends [...]
Blogging
I have been blogging for a few months now and realizing that successful blogging is not successful without equal attention to all its parts. Writing well and offering substantive content are certainly plusses. However, there are other components…marketing related. A successsful blog includes reading other blogs and leaving messages. Surfing the web to see what [...]
Blogging Expectations
Sorry about the hiatus. I was contemplating in what direction I was taking this blog. I am debating whether introducing more of me into the content would dilute the content. So, I have been scouring other writing blogs to see what other bloggers say on the topic. A couple of them have two individual [...]
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