{"id":6674,"date":"2018-02-05T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T02:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2021-02-02T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:12:17","slug":"my-top-3-tips-from-9-years-of-author-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2018\/02\/my-top-3-tips-from-9-years-of-author-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"My top 3 tips from 9 years of author blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"My<\/a>To celebrate entering my 10th year of author blogging – which makes me pretty much a centenarian in blog years – I thought I’d rustle up my top three tips specifically for author bloggers.<\/p>\n

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Author blog tip #1: Work out why you’re blogging<\/strong><\/h5>\n

It took me about five years to get to the bottom of this.<\/p>\n

I started out with the blog because a wise friend suggested I should. I blogged daily because a) I liked it and b) that’s what all the blogging experts said you should do to build a blog.<\/p>\n

One day, I realised that I’d written 350,000 words on my blog in one year<\/strong> and cut back to three times a week because \u2013 well, 350,000 words is about three adult fiction manuscripts.<\/p>\n

Lots and lots of people visited my blog. People approached me about taking advertising, raising the word ‘monetise’. I said no*.<\/p>\n

Everything changed the day I put up a chicken soup recipe (in my defence, it’s a really good one).<\/p>\n

My dear friend Kerri Sackville<\/a> emailed to ask, politely, WTF I thought I was doing.<\/p>\n

“You are not a food blogger,” she said. “You are an author.”<\/p>\n

She was right. I looked at all the things I was doing on my blog. I mean, really looked at it<\/em> for the first time in five years. And I made some changes.<\/p>\n

This is why I blog<\/h5>\n

I blog to share my thoughts, an insight into my author life, and news about my books.<\/p>\n

I try to share useful information and insights about writing and publishing because I know that’s what my community wants (how do I know? I asked<\/em> them).<\/p>\n

I offer space on my blog to other authors because I strongly believe in sharing the love and the insight, and I keep lists of recommended children’s books because I know, as a parent, how difficult it can be to keep kids reading.<\/p>\n

This blog is not about traffic, it’s about community.<\/p>\n

As I wrote in my fifth year of blogging, I blog because it’s worth it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, ask yourself: Why do you blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Author blog tip #2: Don’t overthink it<\/strong><\/h5>\n

There’s an awful lot of information out there about blogging \u2013 from optimal word lengths for posts to how many sub-heads you should have to which latest tech improvement you should be making the most of.<\/p>\n

My advice for author bloggers? Don’t overthink it.<\/p>\n

You are an author. You are a writer. So, write things.<\/p>\n

When I’m wondering what to blog about, as I wrote in this post last year<\/a>, I ask myself three questions:<\/p>\n

\u2022 what am I thinking about?<\/p>\n

\u2022 what am I feeling?<\/p>\n

\u2022 what can I do that\u2019s useful?<\/p>\n

And then I write about one of those things.<\/p>\n

I don’t ignore SEO, but neither do I obsess over it. I try to think about what I would search to find that particular post and I go with that.<\/p>\n

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Author blog tip #3: Blogging is more than platform building<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Every year when I write my annual ‘what I’ve learnt in X years of blogging’ post I come back to one thing: blogging has been so very good for my writing.<\/p>\n

When I began the blog, I was a fulltime freelance journalist (or as fulltime as one could be with a three year old in tow) and I had been writing for magazines and newspapers for nearly two decades. I had a very well-defined, most excellent broadcast<\/em> voice.<\/p>\n

An outside voice, if you like.<\/p>\n

What blogging every day gave me was my own voice.<\/p>\n

My inside voice.<\/p>\n

Good blogging requires you to look closely, to reveal what you think, how you feel.<\/p>\n

It shows you that a whole story can be found in a tiny moment in your day.<\/p>\n

Blogging was a great tool for helping me to find my voice as an author.<\/p>\n

Obviously, you don’t need to go public on a blog to do this, but if you’re struggling to really find ‘you’ in your writing, look at a daily journal of some kind. But there is something about ‘putting it out there’ that helps to focus the mind \u2013 and, of course, bring readers to your website.<\/p>\n

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You’ll find more thoughts on authors and blogging here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blogging: Inviting Readers Home<\/a><\/p>\n

Social Media For Writers #1: Blogging (featuring Jane Friedman)<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s talk about blogging and authors<\/a><\/p>\n

Why blogging is not writing<\/a><\/p>\n

My #1 tip for bloggers<\/a><\/p>\n

How to write a better blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Or take a look at my online course at the Australian Writers’ Centre on How To Build Your Author Platform.<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Are you new here? Welcome to my blog! I\u2019m Allison Tait, aka A.L. Tait, and I\u2019m the author of two epic middle-grade adventure series, The Mapmaker Chronicles and The Ateban Cipher, and a new \u2018almost history\u2019 detective series called the Maven & Reeve Mysteries (you\u2019ll find <\/em><\/strong>book #1 THE FIRE STAR here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>You can find out <\/em><\/strong>more about me here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, and <\/em><\/strong>more about my books here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

*For the record, I did introduce bookseller affiliate links on the blog around 18 months ago, as per the disclosure here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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