Latoya over at Writer’s Brew tagged me, so now that means I’m going to write about why I blog. And here we go!
To Get Noticed - Getting readers for your blog is day-in, day-out work. But the larger an audience you have, the better chance that my network knows someone who knows someone who can help me.
To Get Feedback - Blogging is instant publishing. I don’t have to send a million query letters to editors to find out if my work is good or not. My readers can tell me.
To Exercise Creatively - Because there’s an instant payoff to blogging (i.e. seeing my work in “print”), I’m more motivated to do it and experiment in ways that I normally couldn’t with something time intensive like a novel or screenplay.
To Find Others Like Me - The blogosphere (so 2004) is a huge, mutual link-love fest. Which means there are other people actively looking to get link-love from me. Which means I get to see a lot of great, helpful things other people are doing. I also get a lot of spam, which isn’t cool. But seeing everyone’s ideas, is.
To Make Money - Yeah. I’ll say it. Either by getting a job, advertising on the site, or from someone wanting to publish some of my writing. Definitely not the be all, end all, but a factor.
And now I’ll tag some other blogs. I’m interested to see what they have to say, and you should be too.
Tell Us Why You Blog…
Logic + Emotion
