We’ve had a flurry of comments on a post about blogging this weekend – albeit an older post, an extract and link to Jody Headlund’s post How Important is Blogging for Unpublished Writers? Check out the comments and add your own if you wish.
This reminded me of a couple of things:
- It’s often a good idea not to close comments on older blog posts (something you can do in your WordPress ‘Discussion’ settings – and many do)
- Blogging is an important topic for many writers. As, indeed, it should be – it is an essential starting point for all your social media activities.
So I want to know: What are your biggest blogging questions? Do you have technical questions about setting up a blog? Do you want to know what to write about? How often to blog? What style you should write in? How to promote your blog? How to use widgets and plugins?
You get the idea. Let me know in the comments below, and I’ll try to answer as many as possible in The Publishing Talk Guide to Blogging. You can also ask them on Twitter if you prefer (@publishingtalk).
PLUS I will be asking you a few questions over the next couple of weeks. Keep an eye on Twitter for those. For example, here’s one I just posted – and we’ve had some great replies already:
You can reply to that on Twitter if you wish – even by clicking the Reply button in the tweet image above. Neat, huh? All the links are clickable, just like a real tweet. It’s done using a great WordPress plugin called Twitter Blackbird Pie – one of the plugins I recommend in the book.
I will ask a few ‘voxpop’ questions about your experience blogging – and include some of your replies in the book.
If you can’t wait for the book, you can of course download our free Blogging Cheat Sheet for now – and I’ll let you know as soon as the ebook is available.
Meanwhile, please do add your burning blogging questions to the comments below!
What are your biggest blogging questions?