Why Blog

Posted on 27 October 2009

Yes, I’m meta-blogging about meta-writing!  Also gives me something short and easy to write about today, as I’m headed down to Charleston here shortly to hang out with Team Jordan then go to The Gathering Storm, Wheel of Time Book 12 launch and signing.  Woo!  So, I’m now going to re-examine why I’m blogging in the first place.

Well, first and foremost, I’ll admit, I’m blogging because it’s the hip thing to do, especially when you have your own website layout and URL to throw it on.  Second, it is something to fill up the site between posting the short fiction, which was really what the site was about from the get go.  It also fleshes out my web presence, which apparently is a big thing for writers to do now-a-days.

But even then, I could blog about anything, be it baseball or gardening.  No reason I have to hammer at the old “what is it to write” stuff.  I mean, I hardly doubt I have said a single original thing in this blog, even to me.  A lot of the topics I’ve thus covered were things I already kind of knew or felt, and I’ve just been blogging to blog.  Part of the reason for that, though, is the snail’s pace that writing and publishing are.  I mean, if I was blogging about my quest to become a published author, I would put up a post every couple months along the lines of “Got a rejection” or “sent out another manuscript.”  I feel like I should post up more than that, and something at least marginally more entertaining to both you the reader and myself.

Thus, meta-writing.  Do I even really care if anyone is reading this blog?  Not overly, truth told.  I mean, if an editor reads it and likes it, woo!  But on the average, this, I am coming to feel, is more for me.  Not a diary, per se, but a place to just air the laundry.  The Internet is the world’s soapbox, so I’m taking my turn, and all that.

Anyway, Friday’s blog is going to be about what a book signing/launch party are like.  Oddly, I’ve never really attended one for SFF that was just that.  Anytime I see an author signing books is usually at a convention or some such.  So, new experience for me!  Yay!  See “all y’all” then.