Websites, blogs etc

Alaric · Post by **Alaric** » Wed September 10th, 2008, 8:24 am

Oh, what the hell:

http://stuffiread.wordpress.com/

I just set this up for something to do.

I probably won't update it as often as some of you do yours, but oh well. I'll probably end up posting all the reviews on here too.

diamondlil · Post by **diamondlil** » Wed September 10th, 2008, 8:46 am

Welcome to blogging!

chuck · Post by **chuck** » Tue November 18th, 2008, 6:25 pm

No...I don't have a website or blog....but enjoy visiting every body's mentioned website/blog....I came across a very interesting site at http:lostfortblogspot.com/ or just google the lost fort....great photos, Roman and Medieval archaeology emphasis.....author Gabriele Campbell has mentioned a number of our authors in her links....she also is a writer....all around a very interesting site....

annis · Post by **annis** » Tue November 18th, 2008, 9:11 pm

What I want to know is - how do you guys find time to blog?!

xiaotien · Post by **xiaotien** » Tue November 18th, 2008, 9:19 pm

oh, i def make time.
it helps me unravel my thoughts and
feelings and i love the community!
they really helped and cheered me on through
the entire road to publishing journey.

besides, i've been online journaling for
a decade or more now. def a habit by now.

Rowan · Post by **Rowan** » Tue November 18th, 2008, 10:23 pm

[quote=""annis""]What I want to know is - how do you guys find time to blog?![/quote]

I do very little at work....

donroc · Post by **donroc** » Tue November 18th, 2008, 10:51 pm

No blog, but:

http://www.donaldmichaelplatt.com

http://www.myspace.com/donaldmichaelplatt

diamondlil · Post by **diamondlil** » Wed November 19th, 2008, 8:18 am

[quote=""annis""]What I want to know is - how do you guys find time to blog?![/quote]

It's how I choose to spend my spare time. I don't read at home anymore. I spend my time talking about reading instead, but I still have at least 3 hours a day of reading time, so it's not really to the detriment of reading!

You also become part of the community and therefore you start to feel that you are missing out on something if you don't update your own blog, and visit others!

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Wed November 19th, 2008, 11:13 am

I don't watch a lot of TV and I treat working on my blogs as a wind-down activity once the day job is done. This is the way I treat making movies of the novels and soundtracks too. If you imagine your life as a large glass bowl. Into this bowl you have to put several large stones and a load of smaller stones and gravel. For me, stuff like blogging, cross stitching, movie-making are the smaller stones and gravel. The big stones are family, day job and another stone called sundry unavoidables. If you put the small stones and gravel in first then there will be no room for the big stones, but if you put the big stones in first, you can trickle all the small stuff around them fill all the air pockets and little spaces - as I'm doing now by checking the forum while I have a mug of tea!

cw gortner · Post by **cw gortner** » Wed November 19th, 2008, 11:16 pm

[quote=""annis""]What I want to know is - how do you guys find time to blog?![/quote]

I invite authors to guest post, do interviews and try to write about stuff I think is important. I don't update my blog daily, like many people do, but that's less about time - blog entries don't take all that much time for me to write - than lack of inspiration. I also don't want my blog to turn into a Look-at-Me Zone.

I didn't set out to do a blog specifically about me, but rather about the broader aspects of reading and writing historical fiction. Like EC, I often blog as a wind-down activity. I'm not a big TV watcher, either, though I am hooked on Ugly Betty and HBO's vampire series, True Blood.