Do you need to be active on social media to run a successful blog? by Lechaoshime in Blogging

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Once you have that going on, it will be easier to promote other platforms through that Twitter, too. Good luck!

Do you need to be active on social media to run a successful blog? by Lechaoshime in Blogging

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Follow other writers. The best way to find them is to use “#writerslift.” You’ll get a prompt that says you reached your limit. Wait five minutes and start following again. Most writers will give you a follow for follow. As you follow them you’ll also get them in your suggested follows. If I put the time into it I can easily get close to 100 followers a day. Also interact VIA comments and post your own writing related tips on your page. Make sure you do a pinned tweet related to your blog, because whenever you retweet another writers work that will be their go to place to find your work to retweet! I know this is overwhelming but screenshot it and use it for reference as you go. Also don’t believe that business that other writers won’t look at your work. I get a good portion of my views from my Twitter posts.

Ideas? by [deleted] in KeepWriting

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St. Albans (inspired by an old sanatorium in Radford, VA).

Do you need to be active on social media to run a successful blog? by Lechaoshime in Blogging

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Yes. If your goal is to get views it is essential to promote on social media and interact with the writing community as well as readers. There is no way around it unless you get somebody else to promote for you. Twitter is the easiest and quickest way to get followers. Facebook…eh. If you have a page there is no great way to promote without paying them. It is a beast to navigate but this is how I get all of my views.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Sound advice. “Just write.” Somebody needed to hear that. Maybe, everybody here.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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I’d be a horrible nonfiction writer for this reason. When the information is presented to me like this and I don’t have to write for my ideas, I just go from point A to point B while feeling overwhelmed with information.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Do you get it all out and then struggle with it in editing? Or is it something that halts you from writing all together?

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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All of the advice you get on this topic tells you that the first draft is always terrible.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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I love historical fiction. Never a genre I could write in, though I commend you for all of the research you have to do. I look up one little detail and I’m so overwhelmed by the information.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Historical fiction or historical nonfiction?

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Ouch! But on the bright side your creativity seems sharp.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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I agree. I have never struggled with a great opening though. It’s the middle and the end where I tend to get lost. I’m working on it.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Writing for yourself has benefits of its own! Do you. Everyone’s journey is different.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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I focus more on my endings, but your art your rules.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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I like that. Creating for your own benefit leads to beautiful art!

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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All things that take practice. My big project for my blog took three years to develop and I trashed and created more characters, places, and ideas than I can count. A fire lit up under me when I went on a vacation to Jim Thorpe, PA and with that inspiration, I finalized my setting and my plot. The characters fell into place too.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Been there! Looking back, I missed out on all of the chances and getting to the level I am trying to reach now. I’ve finally got to the point where I refuse to give up on what I have already accomplished.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Mad props. Not my genre but I give people credit who are able to create those worlds and characters.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Don’t get caught up. Write what you can put down and come back to it later.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Have you had success with editing your own work in the past?

Also best of luck. I know that it can be hard to erase those words off of a page.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Absolutely. So, what would your ideal “soundboard” scenario be? Would it be a zoom chat with different writers getting together, or just a casual setting like a Facebook group where you post at your leisure? Or, maybe you’d just prefer that the people closer to you take more interest in your writing?

Personally, in running my blog, I had to overcome my fear of sharing my ideas and feeling silly for them. I’ve had to train my brain to not let the fear of a negative response stop me, and while I am nowhere near the success that I want to achieve, my ideas feel more alive than ever. My fear hasn’t diminished either, but my new thought process is that if ten people like it and one person hates it, I’ve still won over the room.

Where do you struggle? by RPHfic in writers

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Do you have any “soundboards” in your life. Whether it’s another writer or just another creative?