Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers.
The heart of blogging is linking - linking and commenting. Connecting and communicating - the purpose of the Internet.
Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
The social aspect of blogging is just as important as the content, so to borrow a phrase from the 1960s: the medium is the message. And my personal experience shows me that the potential of this medium is extra large.
Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful."
Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.
Social media is not a fad because it's human.
Love your readers to death!
Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.
I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.
Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.
I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.
I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.
I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.
Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.
I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.
