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Blog Post Ideas for Writers: Solving the “What Do I Blog About?” Conundrum

by Kimberley Grabas

Writing your book is enough of a challenge.

Many of us have sat staring miserably at a blank screen, cursor winking mockingly, trying desperately to pull our thoughts together to form a sentence.

And then (hopefully) another.

It’s rarely easy, and even on good days when your Muse is with you, there’s still that niggling self-doubt to contend with.

I have nothing to say.

And even if I did, who’s going to listen?

But if you want to stay ahead of the curve, you also need to consistently craft mind-blowing blog content to grow your audience – while you write your book.

… Ugh.

So, the big question is this:

“What’s the most effective, most efficient way to regularly conceive and produce high-quality posts that attract more readers?”

Because you do have something to say. Your ideas are worth sharing. And people will listen.

You just need a little guidance on how to focus your creative superpowers to get the job done.

How to Decide What to Blog About

Ready to solve the “What do I blog about?” puzzle, once and for all?

To do so, we need to lay a little groundwork.

Before we can think about creating amazing content, we need to know three things first: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Author Website, Blog, Blogging Tagged With: blog post types, blog posts, post ideas, target audience

To Blog Or Not To Blog: Is It Really Necessary?

by Kimberley Grabas

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“There are millions of blogs out there.

What’s the point of adding another to the mix?

What are the chances that my blog will stand out from the hordes of others competing for the limited attention of readers?”

Sound familiar?

Many writers feel this way, but is it a sound argument?

Go ahead and change “blog” to “book” and re-read the above three sentences.

Uh-oh. See what happened there? You’ve just argued yourself out of a career in writing…

So, let’s assume that if you feel your book has a chance of standing out, despite all those that came before, then so does your blog.

But the bigger question that I think writers are really asking is this: will the results I receive from a blog be worth the time I put into it?

Many articles have been written–with proponents on both sides of the issue–as to whether blogging is a necessary and effective tool for authors wanting to “get known” and sell more books.

In some cases, people share what has worked (or not worked) for them and then attempt to extrapolate that as a general rule for all authors (or all fiction authors, or all new authors, etc.).

In other cases, writers are told to blog “for the love of it”.

And if you hate it, stop. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Blogging Tagged With: blog, blog audience, blog commenting, blogging

14 Things About Building a Blog Audience That You Think Are True (But Aren’t)

by Kimberley Grabas

blog audience

A guy wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room, laying in a bathtub partially filled with ice, and a terrible pain in his lower back.

He’s rushed to the emergency room, only to find that one of his kidneys has been surgically removed–apparently without his knowledge and presumably for illicit sale on the black market.

I’m sure many of us have heard some variation of this chilling tale via a ‘friend of a friend’ which has been propagated by thousands of people, but with dubious conformity to any facts.

An urban legend, or more accurately, a contemporary legend, is a kind of folklore that gets passed around in third, fourth or fifth hand accounts, modifying as it circulates and accruing credibility (at least by some listeners) as it spreads.

Some well-known ‘truths’ about building a blog audience are like urban legends.

If they go unchallenged, the truth becomes ambiguous, or worse, these inaccurate concepts become the conventional wisdom of the day, passed as fact from one rookie blogger to the next.

Let’s dispel some of these non-truths, so that you can begin to build a blog audience without folklore getting in the way.

Myths of Building a Blog Audience (and Some Truths You Should Follow Instead)

 

1. If You Build it They Will Come

There are well over 164 million blogs online, and that number is growing daily. Can you even fathom the statistical odds of your sparkly new blog being found online? The odds of someone reading one of your posts? To the end? And actually taking the time to leave a comment?!

It’s staggering. Yet many writers pound out a few blog posts and then wonder–impatiently–why their posts aren’t being shared wildly and their comment section has only one comment:

“Great job, Honey! Love, Mom xoxo”

Even great content needs distribution. And sharing your posts with the few followers you’ve managed to scrape together on your social media accounts doesn’t really count. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Blogging Tagged With: author website, blog audience, blogging

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