Writers' Blogs: What Works (& What Doesn't): The Publishing Insider Column for ForeWord Magazine by C.M. Mayo

Writers's Blogs: What Works (& What Doesn't)
This is the last of my four March columns for ForeWord Magazine's online "Publishing Insider". The previous three columns:

Ten Tools for Organizing the Novel-in-Progress

For the Novelist's Bookshelf: One Dozen Books on Craft & Creating

Use an Egg-Timer If You Must: The 5 Minute Cure for Writer's Block

This Blog is Not a Log or a Diary of My Life; Neither is it Forum or a Community Bulletin Board

It is a filter. You want to know what blogs to read? Come see what I recommend here and here and here. Want to find out about some extraordinary books? Try this 1,000-year-old apparently true adventure that almost defies belief and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and all 10 of these. And how about this mind-blowing (literally) video, this Icelandic movie and this sleep-inducing CD and the magic Baby Muse... I blog about my books, events and workshops (yeah, I'm flogging) but also, generally, my interests, my tastes, what I want to share (e.g., "All Hail E.T., Minister of Information!") and celebrate (e.g., Mexico's beloved English eccentric's masterwork, "Las Pozas"). If you don't like it, fine, there is an ocean of blogs out there, wade in. Why not start your own?

Excerpted from "On the Occasion of Madam Mayo's 2nd Anniversary: 5 Lessons Learned (So Far) About Blogging"

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