Professional Blog?
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI'm in receipt of a suggestion that I consider launching a "professional blog," (presumably) for those people who don't want to have to put up with me blathering about my cats, or the topless joint in the next town. Since I like to talk about my cats, I'd not be viewing such a blog as a replacement for this one, but an addition, which means I'm trying to figure out if a "professional blog" would be worth the investment of my time.
The trouble is, I'm not certain what a "professional blog" would be, exactly. Regular readers of this journal will have observed that writing, as an activity, does not lend itself particularly well to narration.
Tuesday, sat on the corner of the couch, stared at the screen until drops of blood formed on my forehead, and 1,000 words thereby made their various ways from my backbrain through my fingers and filled up that terrible blank surface.
Wednesday, more of same.
Ho-hum.
Those of you who read authors' "professional blogs," can you either point me to such a creature, and/or tell me what you find interesting/informative/useful about such blogs?
Thanks!
The trouble is, I'm not certain what a "professional blog" would be, exactly. Regular readers of this journal will have observed that writing, as an activity, does not lend itself particularly well to narration.
Tuesday, sat on the corner of the couch, stared at the screen until drops of blood formed on my forehead, and 1,000 words thereby made their various ways from my backbrain through my fingers and filled up that terrible blank surface.
Wednesday, more of same.
Ho-hum.
Those of you who read authors' "professional blogs," can you either point me to such a creature, and/or tell me what you find interesting/informative/useful about such blogs?
Thanks!
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Date: 2009-06-03 05:48 pm (UTC)I follow several writer's blogs -- Robin McKinley, Joshilyn Jackson, Carolyn Cherryh, Lois Bujold. None of them talk much about writing per se. Deadlines, yes. Chapters that balloon into three chapters when they are supposed to be getting final edits, yes. Dogs, cats, koi, newts, remodeling, bell ringing, books read, operas attended, yes, and I love it.
Please don't waste your writing time doing a "professional blog."
Abigail