Blogging Tip #1
One of the basic concepts for marketing your indie book is to write a blog. As an eager beaver, newly published indie writer (self-published, of course; established traditional authors do not write blogs, they spend their writing time authoring books), I thought blogging would be the easiest and most fun part of marketing. I wrote some pretty fabulous blogs, if I do say so myself (some up to 10K words), that covered the gamut of everything I believed in, all that I wanted to believe in, my worldview and how it was vitally important that everyone, everyone accept those views and… and it was all crap. Boring, no one gives a damn, rants and drivel.
Until I discovered how completely inane my first blogs were, it was a complete surprise to me that they went largely unread, and remained devoid of comment or even one single “like” button punch. I was frustrated, I even contemplated suicide; but decided instead to complain… bitterly to the “friend” who had insisted that I should write a blog. She said, “Quite writing that boring crap and write about writing.”
I covered both ears and ran from the room. No way was that great idea getting out of my head before I could sit down and let it out on my word program! Write about writing, what a novel idea? Without thinking three times, I started checking out other author blogs… surely, someone else had the same idea and I could learn from them.
Have you ever experienced the traumatic bursting of your dream bubble? It’s, it’s… sorry, I’m speechless. (Deep breath) OK. Everyone, literally millions of indie authors all across the globe are writing blogs about writing! I’d thought I’d die. I thought I’d commit murder. How dare my friend lead me astray like that? I went back to her… “How dare you…”
She calmly held up her hand. “You ran out of here before I could finish. You are not an expert at writing, are you? Neither are the rest of those writers blogging about writing. Everyone has their own experiences and writing techniques. You should simply write about your experiences. I guarantee that the majority of indie authors will be able to relate.”
So, I did. Last week I wrote my first writing tip blog, “Three Obstacles to Finishing That Book”, based upon my own experiences. So far, it’s gotten two comments… from friends. It’s a start… that’s more attention than all the other blogs I’ve written combined. Every journey begins with a single step, does it not? Someone famous said that, so it must be so. I’ll accept it as fact. That blog was my first step, and this one is my second. Before long I will surely join the ranks of the blogging elite, and that success will propel my books straight to the bestseller lists!
If I believe that, or if you believe that, anyone wanting to sell ocean front property in Arizona should look us up. So, what’s the writing tip? Read this carefully:
Use every single minute of the time that you’ve been expending in marketing your books… the blogs, the giveaways, the blog tours, the discussion groups, writer’s groups, psychiatrists and psychoanalyst appointments, and re-direct all that time and effort into getting a traditional, Big 6 publishing contract. Leave all this blogging and indie publishing stuff to us fools.
Until I discovered how completely inane my first blogs were, it was a complete surprise to me that they went largely unread, and remained devoid of comment or even one single “like” button punch. I was frustrated, I even contemplated suicide; but decided instead to complain… bitterly to the “friend” who had insisted that I should write a blog. She said, “Quite writing that boring crap and write about writing.”
I covered both ears and ran from the room. No way was that great idea getting out of my head before I could sit down and let it out on my word program! Write about writing, what a novel idea? Without thinking three times, I started checking out other author blogs… surely, someone else had the same idea and I could learn from them.
Have you ever experienced the traumatic bursting of your dream bubble? It’s, it’s… sorry, I’m speechless. (Deep breath) OK. Everyone, literally millions of indie authors all across the globe are writing blogs about writing! I’d thought I’d die. I thought I’d commit murder. How dare my friend lead me astray like that? I went back to her… “How dare you…”
She calmly held up her hand. “You ran out of here before I could finish. You are not an expert at writing, are you? Neither are the rest of those writers blogging about writing. Everyone has their own experiences and writing techniques. You should simply write about your experiences. I guarantee that the majority of indie authors will be able to relate.”
So, I did. Last week I wrote my first writing tip blog, “Three Obstacles to Finishing That Book”, based upon my own experiences. So far, it’s gotten two comments… from friends. It’s a start… that’s more attention than all the other blogs I’ve written combined. Every journey begins with a single step, does it not? Someone famous said that, so it must be so. I’ll accept it as fact. That blog was my first step, and this one is my second. Before long I will surely join the ranks of the blogging elite, and that success will propel my books straight to the bestseller lists!
If I believe that, or if you believe that, anyone wanting to sell ocean front property in Arizona should look us up. So, what’s the writing tip? Read this carefully:
Use every single minute of the time that you’ve been expending in marketing your books… the blogs, the giveaways, the blog tours, the discussion groups, writer’s groups, psychiatrists and psychoanalyst appointments, and re-direct all that time and effort into getting a traditional, Big 6 publishing contract. Leave all this blogging and indie publishing stuff to us fools.
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