Platforming and Blogs
We’re all hearing that if we want to be successful authors, we need a platform. A platform means having an ‘audience.’ Without readers and an audience it is difficult to sell books. You can platform by becoming a speaker, starting a blog, and networking with others of similar interests on Facebook and twitter. It is the way of the future. Sometimes I find it distracting.
Sometimes when I’m platforming, I feel that that is time I am not actually writing.
Except on my blog. That’s because I actually get to write pieces, essays, poems etc while I’m blogging. I get to read the writings of other writers, and have other writers read me. Sometimes they even ’like’ my posts. And thrill of thrills, when they leave a comment. Ah… contentment. (I know its corny, but you can’t deny a comment now and then makes your day!) Blogging gives you feedback, and I’m finding it an important tool to discover who I am.
Then I discovered I could Publicize my writings on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc and found a good way to Platform was at the press of a button! The Publicize Button.
WordPress is a step up from the other platforms because you are actually doing your trade which is writing, if you’re a writer. I’ve heard several authors kept WordPress, but dropped some of their other platforms, finding that too many platforms proved to be a distraction. (True story, and I read this on a couple of blogs!)
I mean, How many balls can a writer juggle?
Signing off, (just for a little bit) to try to work a little on that novel I’ve been working on since forever!
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About Zellie M. Quinn
I first started writing poetry in the early 1980′s while in the military. I found that I could write on the back-blank side of pages of important documents all the soldier poems welling up in me. The guys discovered the poems and began to take them. This proved to be a not-so-good thing, since during inspections our site was docked points due to the missing pages of important documents.
I wish I could honestly say that as soon as I realized this, I immediately stopped all further deviant behavior…
Alas…
Other than that I was a good soldier.
Currently the poetry editor at Catholiclane.com
For more poems of mine, go to: http://catholiclane.com/author/zellie-m-quinn/
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So true!!! I actually wrote a post about “like and or comment” it sure makes my day when I get that email about a like and or comment
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I feel the same way about those comments, even short ones! In my article writing, I don’t often get feedback, so blog writing has become a passion. I LOVE WordPress, and I have used a couple others. I am in the process of moving one of them to this blog a couple at a time, so I can let the other go. Thanks for dropping by my blog and commenting
I was once posting poems on an online magazine. No one ever commented-since you couldn’t back then. One day a new poet posted a poem, and after it he posted a link to his blog or something like it. He also had a visable counter. It showed how many persons had visited his poetry blog every day. Up until the time he’d posted on the online magazine he’d had only a couple of visitors a day. The day he posted on the online magazine with the link, he had 138 visitors! (Which was directly tied to the magazine. Just because no one left comments on our site, didn’t mean we weren’t read. You never know who has read your blog and left no trace. A blessing indeed!
True. Every now and again someone will mention that they read all my stuff that I had no idea even knew about my blogs! Lurkers everywhere – gotta love ‘em:)
It’s great to have a place to share what we write- And so many blogs to read, and so little time
Amen to that!!!
This is so true! I started with wordpress, and I will continue with them as it has been the most supportive forum I have experienced.There are some other bloggers who I regularly look out for, although trying to keep track of everyone who I follow is becoming like a part time job in itself
I have tried other forums and either found that they are too complicated to use, or that you get little feedback or unhelpful reactions.
Thank you for posting this, it is good to see other people to have encountered the same experiences
I hear you about the part-time job in itself part. I hate missing posts, but sometimes I’m so busy that I do- but I make it for it when I have a little time, and try to spend time commenting and reading other persons blogs.
I think the answer is ‘a lot’. As you rightly say, each extra one is time consuming, yet the wider you cast your net… perhaps we should be forming alliances within the wordpress sphere (if that won’t get us all ejected of course). It’d naturally be time consuming, but pooling our readership might be constructive.
Good point. Thanks for your comment!
I just saw this, Zellie, and came to the same conclusions. So I reactivated the Christian Poets & Writers blog on WordPress and am praying about consolidating everything else before I overwhelm myself
God bless us one and all!
Good luck, Mary- Your blog is uniquely you. And you will have visitors who know where to go to get more of your Christian Writing info and art. ps, I will look for your blog and follow!