For many years I’ve been told that managing editors of major
publishing houses despise bloggers. I
was told that blogging would be the death of true authorship and that authors
who blogged were considered watered-down purveyors of the craft and were not to
be taken seriously.
So for years, I listened to the hearsay—never an opinion
from an actual editor—and whenever I courted editors, I billed myself as a
strict traditionalist in the craft of writing.
Well the blogasphere almost passed me up, that is until an acquaintance
suggested I attend a blogging conference to be held in Miami called
Blogalicious. She also suggested that
networking, entering and participating in the blogasphere may generate traffic
to my brand.
Now if you’d asked me—prior to attending the conference—if I
were a blogger, I would have answered yes.
After all it was ‘all the rave’. “Of
course I am.” I would declare although
truthfully I didn’t know what blogging was.
However, once I learned and realized the scope of blogging I became
addicted.
I’ve come to understand that blogging is essentially the
same birth process of writing a novel, only on a smaller and instant
scale. I get the same satisfaction of
completion as I do when finishing a book.
Only with blogging that satisfactions comes a lot faster.
Blogging became my hero when I found myself in a rut. For years, I’d worked on a project that
didn’t work. I couldn’t finish it. I wouldn’t finish it. I didn’t have writer’s block, I had writer’s
meteoric boulder. Although I learned
years ago that you can always correct something bad on the page, you can’t
correct a blank page~Jodi Piccoult, I couldn’t bring closure to this one
project.
For about a year, I stopped writing. I was compelled to write my first post about
six months after the conference. I was
immediately hooked. Blogging got my
juices flowing. It was and remains
cathartic. Blogging forced me to
rekindle my passion with renewed vigor and purpose. Blogging re-instilled my discipline.
As a result, a few completed manuscripts that once gathered
dust in my drawer were resuscitated. The first of which is to be released in
the next 7 days.
In 2012 I am happy to report that I am an ecstatic
Author-Blogger who proudly engages in social media. For me blogging has become as essential to me
as cooked food. Blogging helped me to
get back in the game and I’m happy for it.
Blogging for Authors—at least this one—is critical and almost as essential for the
author as cooked food.
So you want to be a writer?
Start Blogging!
Help! My Best Friend Just Got Married, Can We Still Be
Friends? drops in 7 days…..and counting…..
