Comments on: Blogging Part 6–Maintaining Your Sanity and Your Blog https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Thu, 19 May 2011 15:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 By: Blogging 101, Part 2 | Amanda Bozeman https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2930 Thu, 19 May 2011 15:53:03 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2930 […] Blogging Part 6 – Maintaining Your Sanity and Your Blog –  Kristen Lamb, Kristen Lamb’s Blog. Yes, it is weird that I’m giving you a link to the 6th post in a series… except that this post links back to the previous ones. […]

]]> By: Signing Off For Now…. « More Than Fairies and Pixie Dust https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2929 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:54:58 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2929 […] do the proper planning that I needed to do (especially after reading the advice of Kristen Lamb on her series on blogging!) and two, I’m managing two other blogs, making my time and efforts severly […]

]]> By: Writing Blog of the Week: Kristen Lamb’s Blog « Karri Justina Shea https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2928 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:06:23 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2928 […] Blogging Part 6: Maintaining Your Sanity and Your Blog – the latest in a very useful series on being a blogging writer […]

]]> By: Joanna Aislinn https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2927 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:44:28 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2927 Loving this blog, Kristen. Getting so much out of your posts, I need to read each at least twice to digest all the wonderfully relevant articles. Love the humor, too. Wish I were half as witty.

Joanna Aislinn
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]]> By: laradunning https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2926 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:44:00 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2926 Another very informative blog. I am so putting my name in my tags, I never even thought of doing that before. Der. I agree having a handful of blog posts to choose from makes maintaining a blog that much eaiser. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: G.H. Edwards https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2925 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:20:51 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2925 Is it right that I haven’t posted on my blog since December 30 because I am so busy reading your book!? Kristen, the information in “We Are Not Alone” is going to be tremendously helpful as I develop and refine my blog. I got off to a bit of a wrong start, but I only began 2 months ago so it’s not too late to go back and change some things based on your advice. Now I need to start building up my queue! Thanks for sharing your experience and expertise!

]]> By: Tamara LeBlanc https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2924 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:34:02 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2924 You’re right Kristen, your blogs ARE way funnier.
Excellent info as always. I’ll have to check out those blogs you listed.
Gotta go now…need to tweak those tags:)
Have a great evening!!

]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2923 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:27:53 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2923 In reply to Training4now.

You need to have the name that will be on the front of your books. Blogging is the best way to build your author brand. And think of it this way, your name will be out there eventually when you publish a book, so a blog is a nice baby step :D. Many agents now are googling an author and looking at their blog to see what kind of presence they have. If your name isn’t searchable, that’s bad juju.

]]> By: Mindi Anderson https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2922 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:15:16 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2922 Kristen – I feel like a “tag-a-holic” with my tags…good thing the blogging police are not on duty. 🙂

Thanks for your list of recommended blogs. That saves me time in my search for relevance + quality.

I am in my 2nd week of blogging, and I already received 5 comments – woohoo! I was celebrating last evening with a midnight treat while reading them. Here’s the link of which I am so proud: http://wp.me/p1gAw0-L

]]> By: knotrune https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/01/blogging-part-6-maintaining-your-sanity-and-your-blog/#comment-2921 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:47:24 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=2111#comment-2921 As a blog reader as well as newbie blog writer, I reckon post length is hugely dependent on content and to some extent on style.

For a really useful, informative and entertaining blog like yours, I thing you have the length about right. In fact, I would be disappointed if you made them shorter!

I find I can’t be bothered with overly short posts either. If I’m browsing on WordPress and see a blog with an interesting title and first few lines, then click in it only to find that’s all there was, I am slightly irked and leave in search of something that can entertain me for longer.

But some posts are too long and waffly. If there is no focus to the post and it is neither informing nor entertaining enough, I will also leave.

I find readers of my cat’s blog prefer short amusing posts, preferably with pictures, while my new personal blog I go for between 300 and 500 and it seems to be working OK.

As for what has helped me, aside from your own advice, with the start of the new year, WordPress have launched PostADay which has encouraged loads of newbie bloggers and restarters to post frequently. I jumped in, as I enjoy a challenge with a sense of community. Participating blogs are tagged postaday, so we can easily find each other’s blogs. I have read and commented on some, and people have found mine that way, as well as my following back from my comments on theirs.

I’m working on focussing the blog right now, although some readers have said they don’t mind a blurry blog! I find it harder to write though… I might take your advice and write a load in a day, if I can find a day I have time to write so much that is not my thesis…

With it being a new postaday blog and that having so many fellow newbies, it feels just fine to be blogging at the same time as refining the blog, and even posting about doing that. Especially if my efforts help others do the same.

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