Blogs For Writers

Everyone who writes a book about anything wants to be paid for their efforts. I am certainly not any exception. I like to write and encourage anyone out there who likes to write about whatever they want but we have to look at reality here. We all want to be able to earn money from our work. I earn a few dollars here and there from advertising that I have on my websites and blogs. Granted, the money is pretty slim but it does encourage me to go forth and write more articles on each of my sites. I haven’t delved into the fiction arena yet and I don’t write poetry but I do enjoy a good limerick now and then. For those of you who do write fiction and/or poetry there is a great resource that I read every week called Funds for Writers. This is a tremendous resource for those of us who would like to write for a living. The author of the website/blog has a FREE newsletter that you can sign up for and start receiving every Friday night.

The Funds for Writers website has other resources for writers about contests, grants, submission requirements and little booklets for sale for the low price of $1.99 that concentrates on one particular area of writing. For instance, if you like to write romance novels there is a “TweetBook” about which publishers specialize in that particular genre and their contact information. The newsletter also covers tips for the writers on a variety of subjects that interest us as well as encouragement from her and other writers as well. The paid subscription is offered with twice the information as the FREE newsletter and is well worth the price of $15 a year. She is branching out with newsletters for Small Market Writers and Kids Writers as well (For younger writers and those who write for them). Hope Clark is the Editor and Writer for this tremendous resource and is having her own Writing Contest with the top prize being $300:

If you are a beginning writer or just thinking that you would like to be you might want to read up on the subject before you begin. There are lots of different websites out there with all kinds of information available for aspiring writers that is FREE to read. Depending on your learning style you can either read these websites, get a book on the subject or even attend some classes at the community learning center. One article I was reading has the Top Ten Tips for New Writers. In it they stress Learning the Rules of Punctuation, Grammar and Spelling as well as doing research on your subject, writing about what you know and being interested in your subject. You can even get tips from other writers as well. So check your favorite author’s websites to see if they post writing tips or FAQ section that has writing advice.

Another article I was reading had 12 Fiction Writing Tips that are quotes from other authors and publishers. Some of these include: show don’t tell your readers; make your fiction make sense; writers write wannabees talk about it; start with the truth and twist it around your imagination; and know your audience!

There are lots of different things that you can blog about. What you blog about is entirely up to you. Some suggestions you might want to consider from an avid reader might be some of the following: Readers love to read about upcoming books, readers like to hear stories about their favorite authors, readers like to hear about how you came up with your characters and story-lines and mostly readers want to know if and when you will be available in their area for autographs and/or personal appearances.

You want to make sure you set aside some time each and every week or at the very least once a month to post an article for your subscribers and fans. Our service includes a subscriber database function so that your subscribers can create a user id and password then they will automatically get your updates when they happen. Keep to the schedule as best you can and your fans will come back often just to see what you are doing. We can also include a Guestbook page so that those fans who do not wish to subscribe but would like to post something to your site can do that. Remember that only subscribers should be able to post comments to your blog posts. That will keep down on the spammers. You will have the ability to delete any comment or Guestbook entry that does not relate to your website specifically

Your computer is part of your trade. Now-a-days every single writer should have a personal computer or laptop. If you are just beginning price will determine what kind of computer your get. We deal mostly with Windows Based systems so if you have a Apple or Linux Computer you will have to look elsewhere for computing advice. (Our service here does not depend on what kind of computer you have.) Once you get your computer you will have to do a few things to maintain it and keep it safe.

On a regular basis you should do the following:
1. Run the Clean-Up Program once a week (This is included in Windows)
2. Run the Defrag Program after that (This does not pertain to Windows Vista or Windows 7)
3. When given the options to have Windows Update Automatically choose that option. However, once a month you will have to run Windows Update manually and choose the Custom rather than the Express Scan. This will give your hardware as well as optional updates not included with the Critical Windows Updates)
4. Once a Week Update Your Virus Scanning Program. And once a month run a FULL SCAN (this will take a little bit of time so be patient)
5. Delete your internet browser history, cookies and temporary files at least once a week.

And finally, this is not a tip but a MUST DO. As soon as you can go out and buy yourself an external Hard drive. The easiest to use has a USB plug-in. The prices of the external hard drives are coming down every day. To begin with you just need one as big as your current hard drive on your personal computer or laptop. Make sure you COPY your data files, music and pictures to the external hard drive at least once a week. When you get a lot of files this may take time so be patient with this as well.

Being a writer you probably already know or have heard of a Blog. Simply, put it is a web log or an page that is updated on a regular basis. For our purposes here your choice of either a BLOG or a regular website is really irrelevant. The process is basically the same for both only a website is generally only updated only a couple times a year whereas a Blog allows the writer to keep it’s readers updated on what the author is working on, which books are coming out soon and what, if anything, may be available for FREE, as well as upcoming book signings. Keeping your readers informed about what you are doing is very important to keeping them coming back. Most fans look for a BLOG on the website first. With our service we put the BLOG as the first or Home page whereas the regular website a BLOG page can be added somewhere else on your site.

Welcome to the Blogs For Writers website.  Us along with our sister website at www.websforwriters.com will be giving our subscribers and or customers a fast and inexpensive solution for you to communicate with your readers.  We know that you want a professional website and or blog that doesn’t cost an arm-and-a-leg.  And you would like to be able to communicate efficiently with your readers however starting a website takes time and patience.  It requires that you keep it updated regularly.  We can do as much or as little as you need us to do.  We utilize the Invoice System and will not do any work until your payment is processed through the SECURE SERVERS AT PAYPAL. We will NOT post to your blogs.  That and any links or pages you need to fill out and any emails that you get will have to be answered by you or your representative.

This website concentrates on Blogs. The Blog format is the similar to a regular website EXCEPT there is an interactive component built into the site. Blogs generally have their postings as their homepage but that is not necessary. You can have a static page as your homepage with the blog posting pages on another part of the site. We utilize the WordPress Content Management System and can create different themes for your blog that you can change back and forth as many times as you want. Whereas, a website has to be manually changed through the use of coding.

The posts will be information for our subscribers on anything we come across that will help our customers with their websites, their computers and informative writing resources so subscribe and stayed tuned.