The Blogging Grumbles…

I'd love to post chatty blogs, you know the type, the ones where I tell you a funny story, and despite the medium, we all sit back and laugh and feel like we've taken part in a fine old time, but to do that just doesn't seem to come naturally to me.

Perhaps I just need to work on it more.

Perhaps I actually need to work on it less and relax a little.

Either way, I'm not really hitting the tone I want with most posts. I think that's part of the reason why I'm a reluctant blogger.

What I don't want to do is get on a soapbox and hit you over the head with my wisdom (you should have seen the blog I was working on and going to post instead of this – soapbox city)!

I also don't want to rabbit on with spammy buy my book kind of posts. I wouldn't want to see them from others, and I can't imagine you do.

So what do I want to do?

What am I trying to achieve?

I am both trying to entertain and inform.

Oh, god, I'm sounding like a promo from the Discovery Channel…

I get emails from people asking this and that about publishing, social networking and writing, so I want to address those questions in posts, just as on others I want to be entertaining enough that you'll come back – even if you didn't learn anything.

I do realise that some of you come here for writing tips, some to follow my writing and publishing journey, others because you're readers, while some are looking for fresh ideas about online marketing and social media. None of you come here specifically for a laugh, but I can't imagine any of you would complain if you got one every once and a while.

Over the coming months I'm going to try and do more with the blog (including covering those topics that I know people come here for). At the same time I'm going to try harder to be entertaining by talking about me. You know, sharing inglorious stories from my past.

Hopefully we'll all be laughing for the right reasons.