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  • 22-01-2021 11:52am
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    purplekitty
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭


    Hey...
    I've done it completely the wrong way around, but I've wrote a series and am only thinking about submitted it for publishing...
    However, I've been reading that having a website and/or blog can be beneficial for publishers.
    WHAT ON EARTH KIND OF CONTENT do you put on a blog or website?
    I know they don't recommend putting up sections or chapters of your book up... so...?
    Is it more of a personal reflection, or like, a ramble abut what inspired your writing?

    Any advice appreciated,
    And if anyone has any blogs, let me know and i can see you works!

    Thank you!
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    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I don't know what professional writers recommend, but I've kept various blogs for different purposes for about 15 years now. Most of them were for personal reflections. I used them like an open diary. There was a great little community around it for a while, but the whole gang eventually gave up on it. One of the lads won awards for his blogging as a teenager/young adult, but the last I heard he was after transitioning into podcasts.

    I set up a poetry blog as well and posted everything I had on it. One post every day for 6 months at first, then more sporadic updates. I had about 250 poems on it at one stage.

    It was a fantastic little project for me, and got me a bit of an audience, but never generated any constructive feedback. I removed about 50 of my better pieces when I got serious about publishing my first collection. Many of those pieces are in the book (after going through a few more re-edited and edits).

    Instead of posting poems, I started to document the process of getting the book published. It's definitely due another update now that the thing has been available for nearly two months!


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    km85264
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    Post what you like to read. The readers that you want to attract are just like you. What they want to read is what you want to read. Go for it. Enjoy yourself.


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    #4
    purplekitty
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭purplekitty


    Thank you for EVERYTHING in your post...
    most helpful...

    You got any links?
    Show me your stuff!!!!


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