Saturday 6 March 2010

A blogger in need of friends

I’m so sorry I haven’t been around much, but you know what it’s like. It’s just one thing after another.

If you are like me you have a publisher and an agent breathing down your neck all the time. But then if you are like me, we don’t have time to play around on the internet. And as for updating one well you must know what it's like…

I know, my agent keeps telling me it would be a great idea if I got a blog.

Well, I can tell you she was very surprise to learn I had this one.

‘Hey’, I said, ‘I even have three followers.’

‘Wow,’ said she, ‘That’s great, but most people have more than just three.’

‘And,’ say I, ‘What’s your point?’

‘Well, that’s not quite a following, is it’

Some people… ‘Hey,’ say I ‘What the hell do you what me to do? Write my next novel or mess around on the internet collecting followers?’

‘Both would be nice,’ said she ‘Talking about your book. How's it coming along?’

‘Great. Even better if I wasn’t spending so much time hanging around on the net, checking out other writers' blogs looking for followers.’

‘Have fun… Power to the cause. I’m off to check up on my blog. Bye Edith’

And then, she was gone until next time, at least.

Hey Bloggers! If that’s what I suppose to call you. Why are you not busy writing? If you want to be a writer, you should be writing?

Anyway, I think I’ve found a couple of places to hang out to see how others do this blogging lark.

There one called Sally’s writing blog. Sally seems to like telling people how to write and she has a few friends, I've noticed.

I wonder if that’s what I should be doing, sharing my wide experience in writing and being published, maybe I should be telling you bloggers ‘How publishing really works’. Well at least from my point of view.

I mean to say, I am an insider

Well, I must get back to my novel, before she-who-must-be-obeyed is back on the blower, asking where the first draft is, so it’s goodbye from me.

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