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Do You Swear to Blog the Whole Truth?

June 15, 2010
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Blogging is like writing important fiction; posts should reveal the truth about the human condition, they should be sincere, and they should bring people closer together so that they feel less alone. If you’re not striving to do these things with your blog, then you should reconsider your purpose and potential as a blogger.

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Always Leverage the Other Medium

May 4, 2010
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If you love a craft, you should practice it, no matter what. Don’t think too much about trends. If you recognize a need for a blog, then you should be the one to start that blog! Just think about how many other people online have the same questions that you do; use social media to find those people and empower the community.

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Shades of Electronic Publication

April 14, 2010
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I wonder how often literary magazines and publishing companies have to tackle this issue. I think a social-media savvy publisher should encourage writers to share work on their blogs because blogging is a grassroots marketing tool, a way to get readers interested. If the writing is good, the readers will buy the books, no matter what.

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And Then the Creative Class Spontaneously Combusted

February 25, 2010
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According to science fiction writer Gwyneth Jones, the company as a digital publisher is now getting “…unprecedented access to billions of tiny payments, for product that costs them effectively nothing, at their point of entry. This seems to mean they don’t have to worry about any form of resistance at all…”.

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