Setting up a new blog can be a daunting task. Especially if you’re a blossoming writer hoping to use the platform as a means to find your audience. What do you write about? Is it too soon to start if you haven’t published anything?
K.M.Allen offers wonderful tips and advice which are motivating and inspiring… a must read for anyone wondering what to blog about.
While June might remind us were already halfway through another year, it is also this blog’s blogiversary month!
I published my first post in June 2017. That kicked off the 117 posts I’ve published since.
I launched my blog to extend my writer platform. I’d already begun querying agents and publishers and had been rejected, but was still two years away from signing the small press contract I was offered in January 2019. I wasn’t published anywhere and didn’t have a book out to plug.
So what does a writer who isn’t published write about?
Writing, of course! My first post was titled Just Start, which was, and still is, a life motto of mine.
While I’m still another 6 months away from being officially published (the first book in my YA series, Blackbirch, is coming early 2020), I’ll continue to practice what I preach and blog about…
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Sounds a lot like what I did when I started.
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Me too! ☺️
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It’s been almost four years since then, but all the trial and error helped me learn a lot.
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