I get book ideas about once a decade and blog ideas even less frequently. I would like to blog weekly but even monthly is a struggle... I can spend an entire evening trying to come up with a topic. Halp? I try not to write about writing because there are 203,020,384,029 writing blogs out there already. I'll eventually focus on topics that will attract romance readers to my site, but I'm not too worried about that yet because I have no books to sell them. So I guess I just want topics that humans will be interested in... I don't have a theme for the blog: I'll post about anything I think I can make funny. My most popular posts include: - The difficulties of writing sex scenes (more a humour piece than serious writing advice) - My review of Helicopter Man Pounds Billionaire Dinosaur Ass (lots of hits from people googling the book) - Q&A with my agent (probably from people googling her name) - Horoscopes (made up for comic effect) - Procrastination Advice (humorous, not serious) Any ideas?!
When I had a blog that was doing well (I had a temporary career as a mommy blogger before I got bored with the mommy blogger politics and got rid of it), I found that the posts that did the best contained pictures (even something stupid with the title of the post shopped onto it so they could pin it). Also, my painstakingly researched - dammit I have a point! - posts didn't do anywhere near as well - no matter how much humor I injected - as my slice of life 'Dear god, I spend 9/10ths of my life stuck in the drive through' posts. I learned quickly that people do not want substance. They want relatable, and they also really want to laugh at you (which was easy, because I laugh at me a lot).
My blog posts mostly consist of me bitching about how much I hate blogging, so... probably I'm not a great source of inspiration. Damn, I hate blogging.
I just went and deleted everything off my 4 years of nothing blog. I'm trying to decide if I even want to bother. I know I should (and I had collected 240 some followers that I can take advantage of) but... I kind of hate blogging. I wish FB alone would work. I hate that too, but I hate it slightly less.
I feel like it's easier to just kind of chat on FB. Blogging feels more like a speech I'm giving to an audience I'm pretty sure doesn't give a shit about what I'm saying.
Yes. Though I just created my FB page (I do everything backwards) so there's only 1 person to talk to). I also hate having my family on my pages, so they don't even know it exists. Or the books for that matter. They're my little mushrooms. My mommy blog did really well, but only once I created a FB page for it. Until then all my followers were fellow mommy bloggers. It got all of us nowhere. With FB ads I got up to 20k followers in under a year and started getting free shit from companies. I should have kept it and tried to swing it to the books but I'm not that great at thinking ahead either.
Twitter is my main thing, where I get about 12,000 impressions a day. But the long-term point of Twitter is to drive sales, and a website is the main vehicle for sales, so Twitter is supposed to feed into my website and its blog. At the moment the blog gets about 500 individual visitors a month, with spikes when I post something new. I like Twitter AND blogging or I wouldn't bother with either... it's just coming up with ideas is so hard.
I really wish I liked Twitter. I don't though, and it feels like such a waste of time to me. I know it shouldn't be, I'm just really bad at it apparently. I envy your Twitter skills.
