Envelopes

I had scheduled another post, but I thought it was a useless rant, so I'm saving it for some other day. I'm going to muse today on Loralie's post about envelopes – or how we all live in an enclosed space (like an envelope) – trying to figure out which envelopes I'm in and how I make them interact, if at all. Mostly because Loralie makes also an excellent point on readers – you know, those people who buy your books but don't bother to check your writer blog because, guess what?, they're readers, and they don't give a s… about writing?!

So, my envelopes first. Let's see if I can make a list: writers, readers, Day Job, comicon friends, family, other assorted (pen)friends. Do they interact? Not really. All envelopes are quite separate. And if I have to hang out with people from one envelope, I usually don't invite people from another envelope (say, mixing colleagues with comicon friends – although at the latest medieval dinner I was with 1 colleague, 1 high school friend I hadn't seen in 25 years and 3 comicon friends). Not easy to mix envelopes' content. Although it should be easy to mix writers and readers, but most writers I know don't read, so… but then, that's what Goodreads is for!

Now, Loralee's musing about readers are on the spot. Readers who are not writers won't come to your little writerly blog. That's not what this blog is for anyway. I know my readers won't come to look for this – but for a web page that says when the next book comes out, yes. So I'll have to work on that ASAP – a more static page for the readers. I'm not selling books through my blog, really. Yes, I announce new releases, but you don't hear me ranting about that every day.

This is my personal blog, and I'm already thinking of posting less often, so I have more time to write what I love – my stories. I don't care about SEO rankings/traffic for this blog. Readers of my books are not interested in my ramblings anyway. I do this because I like to keep in touch and be part of the blogosphere – and because I'm having fun and meeting new people.

Blogs: Writers, don't do it only to promote, because it won't work, my friends. Do it because you enjoy it. Not because everybody and their mother says so. Sales will come, eventually. The only thing you should never ever forget is WRITERS WRITE. Go write your next book and stop worrying about low sales. Amanda Hocking had 7 books out when she made it big. Do you have that many? Then stop whining and go back to writing.

Which is something I better do myself – editing at the moment, but it's still related to writing! Happy writing!