Archive for February 21st, 2008

Blogging has been cool for writers ever since Neil Gaiman had an online journal around the birth of American Gods. Then there’s Warren Ellis and his various forums, John Scalzi’s Whatever, Elizabeth Bear’s they must need bears …. as well as all the reasons for having at least a website that Rachel Vater mentions.

(Rachel is Lit Agent X, by the way. Better add her to your bookmarks or your feed reader.)

But blogging is a new thing for a lot of writers, oddly enough. If you’ve never worked in various mediums before, blogging will be a rather different experience. And even if you have, blogging still merits a different approach than anything else out there.

So I’m starting a weekly series on blogging advice for writers.

Continue reading “It’s Not Enough to Have a Blog: Advice for Writers Who Wanna Join This Blogging Thing”

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Yes, this is relevant.

I’m writing a story for the February SFF Online Writing Workshop Monthly Challenge.

By the way, there’s a commendable crit contest going on there, complete with prizes. I hope to get this little story in shape in time for the contest, which means before the end of February.

I don’t want to put anything out there half-baked, though, even for critiques; so I might not make it. But that doesn’t mean you won’t make it.

Started with 0 words:

They send me out to kill legends. Or as a practical joke. Seniority gets no respect at the Academy.

Stopped for tonight with 684 words:

“And JJ couldn’t crack their servers?”

“They appear to keep inner circle correspondence on plain old paper. Who knows where all that is? Up some Yellow Party’s bum, maybe.”

Target: somewhere under 7500 words.

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