Comments on: Platform: What IS It? Why Do Writers Need One? https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/04/platform/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: robintvale (Jessica) https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/04/platform/#comment-110586 Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:34:09 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=24448#comment-110586 I have no idea just how to go about buying my own blog domain? Do you just buy your own domain or do you go to a website hosting and buy the domain there and then put your own coding in and make it a blog? I only know HTML and little CSS. I have no idea how to make forums and such for like comment areas.

]]> By: robintvale (Jessica) https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/04/platform/#comment-110585 Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:28:41 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=24448#comment-110585 In reply to Kristen Lamb.

I’m awful at replying, forgive me. I plan on ditching Wattpad once this first book is done. I really like the editor they have to write in and am looking for something else. Wattpad is offering this weird coin thing were readers can pay to read certain stories that the wattpad CEOs have chosen. *screams* Hum, no still not good enough. Ugg. I’m going to go check out my WordPress account again and see how much it costs to upgrade, as free stinks. At least I’m still unknown and upgrading won’t mess up my nonexistent platform.

I’m going to keep reading the rest of the articles here, maybe an idea for what to blog about will come to me. Maybe Warcraft? I played that online game for eight years. I also played Final Fantasy from the very first one to #10. Maybe old school video games? Wonder if people would be interested in that? Or how about how fantasy books have changed over the years and such.

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]]> By: Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/04/platform/#comment-92023 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:37:07 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=24448#comment-92023 In reply to Robin T. Vale.

Wattpad is making people (writers) ad mules. Free is never free and actually is very costly. I’d ditch that asap. She could have been offering free books other places that helped her SEO and drove sales though I am not a fan of free with no strategy.

]]> By: Robin T. Vale https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/04/platform/#comment-92016 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:02:27 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=24448#comment-92016 I have a WordPress blog, but no idea what to post on it, this will give me some focus thank you! This also goes with a nagging worry I’ve been having about Wattpad lately, it’s been getting very advertisement happy this year, and offering a ‘premium” account to get rid of them as members have asked for this. Feels fishy to me. All I know is once a website starts offering premium anything what follows next is a separation of the free members from the paying ones. Gaiaonline is a real and extreme example, look for them in rip off report.com

I’ve seen this happen on sever other websites, if it gets bad enough people get banned for no reason, locked out, along with members stat fighting with each other more, more trolls come out of the worlds and start pushing the rift farther apart.

I was having a conversation with a friend on Wattpad, trying to get her to see why it’s a bad idea to offer all of her books for free on there, and expecting people to go buy the full book on Amazon. I’m sure some will but I think most won’t bother as they are already getting it for free. After this first book of mine is done I’m going to post a few chapters of any others I make as a sample and send them to my blog. Your posting has definitely helped with this decision, thank you.

I just hope my friend has backed up her books and sent them to herself by email, as you never know when a site will be down for months on end due to a server attack, bad weather, company going broke, stuff like that.

As I like Fantasy I’m going to have fun looking for blog topics. <3

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