Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 16:11:18 GMT 8
Lately a reader asked me for advice on how to publish her stories in a blog , but didn't know where to start, and another for an opinion on her short story blog . It's not the first time that readers have asked me for information on how to manage a blog where they publish only their stories and make themselves known as writers. It is normal for writers to want visibility and create an audience of readers , and a blog can give the visibility that is necessary for an author to emerge, to make writing his full-time job. I have never created a blog focused only on my stories, but I have seen many online: many authors feel the need, the need to share their stories to receive criticism, to know if what they write can arouse the interest of readers . I therefore took advantage of the requests of the 2 readers to delve deeper into the topic: how to create a short story blog .
Why start a short story blog? I wrote some time ago that a book is an anomalous product : a customer buys only one copy, at most 2 to give one as a gift. Consequently, a writer is an anomalous professional: he creates a product, Special Data earning a percentage of sales and can hardly - if not rarely - make a living by writing fiction or non-fiction. How can a fiction author make himself known today? By writing and publishing stories in a blog , one would immediately have to respond. But is it really enough? The first question an author must ask himself is: why do I want to open a short story blog ? Which means: what do I want to achieve? But above all: do I want to achieve something or do my stories just serve me as an outlet? If the author falls into this second group – if he wants to publish stories without earning anything – no strategy is needed. But if the author wants to open his short story blog to make himself known and appreciated as a writer, then the situation changes.
Is a short story blog useful? We can argue endlessly about the usefulness or otherwise of a blog that only publishes stories without reaching an agreement: it's a subjective fact. There are those who love reading stories online and even on their smartphone. Stories, wherever they are published, always find an audience of readers. People love stories, of any literary genre. A short story blog can be useful to the author if he manages to reach a loyal audience of readers. A short story blog will be useful to readers if they find well-written and exciting stories there. But a story blog is also a writing gym for the writer: it will be a virtual place in which to practice creative writing, in which to transform his writing into a habit . Where to open a short story blog? Exactly where to open any other blog: in a blogging platform . The choice of platform cannot be left to chance, because each of the two alternatives has its pros and cons.
Why start a short story blog? I wrote some time ago that a book is an anomalous product : a customer buys only one copy, at most 2 to give one as a gift. Consequently, a writer is an anomalous professional: he creates a product, Special Data earning a percentage of sales and can hardly - if not rarely - make a living by writing fiction or non-fiction. How can a fiction author make himself known today? By writing and publishing stories in a blog , one would immediately have to respond. But is it really enough? The first question an author must ask himself is: why do I want to open a short story blog ? Which means: what do I want to achieve? But above all: do I want to achieve something or do my stories just serve me as an outlet? If the author falls into this second group – if he wants to publish stories without earning anything – no strategy is needed. But if the author wants to open his short story blog to make himself known and appreciated as a writer, then the situation changes.
Is a short story blog useful? We can argue endlessly about the usefulness or otherwise of a blog that only publishes stories without reaching an agreement: it's a subjective fact. There are those who love reading stories online and even on their smartphone. Stories, wherever they are published, always find an audience of readers. People love stories, of any literary genre. A short story blog can be useful to the author if he manages to reach a loyal audience of readers. A short story blog will be useful to readers if they find well-written and exciting stories there. But a story blog is also a writing gym for the writer: it will be a virtual place in which to practice creative writing, in which to transform his writing into a habit . Where to open a short story blog? Exactly where to open any other blog: in a blogging platform . The choice of platform cannot be left to chance, because each of the two alternatives has its pros and cons.