tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post5967403282972541175..comments2024-02-28T18:29:41.120-08:00Comments on Not of General Interest: Random bullets of February 1undinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-56633668781755937332023-02-10T08:33:51.334-08:002023-02-10T08:33:51.334-08:00xykademiqz--Glad to hear that your novel is all bu...xykademiqz--Glad to hear that your novel is all but set--good luck!<br /><br />I'm with you on the blog vs substack debate and will be interested to see how your newsletter idea works. Honestly, there's little that I write about here that's compelling enough to charge people for, and if I did, I'd have to be a whole lot more entertaining. As it stands, if I amuse myself & a few readers with this blog, that's all I really want. But like you I miss the interactions circa 2010, when there was more of a blog conversation. undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-89305260176221586042023-02-07T13:32:20.816-08:002023-02-07T13:32:20.816-08:00Re blogs vs substack, I'm not paying for $hit....Re blogs vs substack, I'm not paying for $hit. Most people whose writing I appreciate have free-to-read blogs or free newsletters (I do subscribe to those and am thinking of adding a free newsletter to my blog). I hate the idea that everything has to extract money from people. <br /><br />I definitely like the interaction on blogs, as dwindling as it has become. Ah, the good old days of blogging in the early 2010s LOL. <br /><br />Re writing, book is done and with beta-readers. I have a paper I have to write next week and when that's done, I will be doing the final edits and start querying, which is downright terrifying but I am as prepared as I will ever be. I think I have a good feeling for what a query letter and synopsis are supposed to look like. I still need to polish my first 10 pages or so to high sheen, as most agents read only those, but I think the novel is close to what it was meant to be. I'm pretty happy with the narrative arc and characterization, and betas say it's engrossing and well paced, so really that's all I can hope for as a debut author. Wish me luck!<br /><br />xykademiqzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18306861394466282929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-28656673527306469482023-02-02T08:44:37.126-08:002023-02-02T08:44:37.126-08:00gwinne--what a great distinction! Yes, blogs invit...gwinne--what a great distinction! Yes, blogs invite conversation, whereas substacks newsletters into the void, and newsletters are more like . . . a lecture that you sign up and pay for. I'm chalking it up to one more thing that I just don't get the point of but don't have to worry about.<br /><br />undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-49946310085194919822023-02-01T16:59:51.183-08:002023-02-01T16:59:51.183-08:00My thoughts exactly on blogs vs. substacks. It al...My thoughts exactly on blogs vs. substacks. It also seems to me that blogs invite conversation whereas substacks are newsletters into the void? But perhaps not. In any case, neither my pseudonymous nor my real self has one of her own....nor do I read them as a general rule.<br /><br />Hooray for writing! I am...not, at least not in a systematic way. But I'll get back into it this month, I think.gwinnehttp://something-remarkable.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com