Social media is not a fad because it's human.
Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.
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.
The goal in blogging business inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.
It's not exactly annoying but definitely saddening to see people getting into blogging for completely the wrong reasons. Getting perks is not a given when blogging.
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.
I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.
I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.
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.
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.
Make it about them, not about you.
Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.
Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.
Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?
The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.
I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internetbloggingother structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.
Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.