Blogging Conundrums

Hi everyone,

I haven't been posting much here lately. I've been busy of course, but that's not really what's been holding me back. The real truth is that I just don't know what to do with this blog. This whole blog thing is a bit intimidating for me.

I've been keeping journals/diaries since I was twelve (argh, my whole life is written down in them; that's scary) and while I'm perfectly happy to waffle away in them, I'm really fussy about the actual books I write in. If it's too fancy or pretty I don't want to mark it with my untidy handwriting and my often just as untidy thoughts. That's something of the way I feel about this blog.

I had the idea a while ago of keeping a sort of 'writer's notebook' at a different blog address; this would be something I could just sit down to each day or so and write a little bit – about my day, how the writing had gone, what surprising thing one of the characters had come up with and just generally how I felt about this weird and wonderful job of writing. I thought I'd do it somewhere other than here because when I think about this blog it feels like everything has to be big and impressive and well, thought out and considered. Of course, I like writing things like that and I'd continue to post here but on top of everything else it gets to seeming like a bit of a chore and I'd prefer something more relaxed so that I can blog more often. I'll probably do my 'writer's notebook' posts here but at the moment it feels like this is one of those fancy journals I don't want to mess up.

I don't want to write a blog for writers. There are so many really good ones of those out there already. I want to write for my readers, but the thing is, I don't really know what you all want to hear about from me – if anything!

So this is the main reason why I haven't been around much. I want to change this, I'm just trying to figure out the direction I want to go in. Suggestions are welcome

Having said all that, I will be posting again tomorrow announcing the forthcoming Michaela and Trisha book "SWEET CHARLOTTE". I look forward to talking to you all about it!

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