As a writer, should you be blogging? Yes. If you were an author with published works, should you be blogging? Yes.
Not everyone agrees with those two statements, but I do.
I’ll write a LOT more about building blogs and the technology behind it — done in writer’s terms — but right now let’s check some reasons for having and writing in a blog as a writer.
Let’s start with the most fundamental and go from there.
Blogging helps you find your voice.
This was my original reason for blogging — to find my voice as a writer. I first heard about blogging and heard the now familiar objections. Things like you shouldn’t write for free or blogging time takes away from writing time.
Blogging does take time. I don’t consider it writing for free, however.
The deal is this: write 100 posts in your blog and then look at your first five and your last five that you did. See what changed. If you’re like me, things changed a LOT. For the better.
Here is my very first blogging post on BizBlog in July, 2005: Unemployment Dips Again. Go read it and then compare it to this series: Cubicle Warrior - What it Takes. Content from a news article to original content. A quick insight into what the news meant for someone working in a cubicle to solid tips on what needs to be done to manage your business career.
Over time and a lot of experimenting, I came to learn about how I write. I learned more about what to write about. I learned a lot about editing what I had wrote. I also learned about how much more I needed to learn. That helped me hone my craft.
If you have not written for an audience before, a blog is a great way to create your voice as a writer.
I’ve got more reasons for writing a blog. They will follow in subsequent posts.
In the meantime, how did you find your voice as a writer?
Scot
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