How I Blog

Want to start your own blog? Try blogging like I do.

In the past 11 years, I’ve written over 650 blogposts. When I started, experts advised fiction writers to blog as a way to increase their online footprint and drive book sales.

These days I’m not sure that matters much. YouTube might be a better venue, if you can create standout videos. But hours spent blogging (or shooting videos) are hours not spent writing fiction. Still, it’s become a weekly routine for me.

Before I began in 20...