• beginners,  Blogging,  Blogging Tips,  choice,  Flock,  theme

    Blogging for Beginners: What Slice of the Pie Do You Want?

    So you’ve decided to start blogging and — as I suggested last week — you downloaded and installed a copy of Flock. Now what? Well before we start playing with the new toy we have a decision to make. It’s the most important decision you make as a blogger.  What slice of the pie do you want? If you look at any popular blog site you know which slice of the audience pie they are after, which theme their blog posts revolve around. Pick any of your favorite blogs and see if I’m not right. Let me pick one for you — Over at the Otherworld Diner they deliver their…

  • beginners,  blgtool,  Blogging,  Blogging Tips,  bloggingtips,  Flock,  writers

    Blogging Tips for Beginners: A Web Browser for Busy Authors #writetip

    Flock Browser – Flock Art To be an author is to be a blogger. Not all writers are as enthusiastic about that new aspect of our profession as I am. I love geek stuff. I love playing with new ways to express myself, and I really love the possibilities blogging can bring to stories. So why isn’t every writer enthusiastic about blogging? I think the biggest barrier is a technological hurdle. So, that’s the blogging issue I’m going to address first. You need more than a web browser to get this job done right. If you are trying to muddle along with Internet Explorer or Firefox, with no enhancements for…

  • Alice Gray,  Beginning BLogging,  Bogging,  Elle AMery,  Fiction,  Flock,  Other World Diner,  Theme Blogging,  writing

    Blogging Tips for Beginners: Which slice of the pie do you want?

    It’s the most important decision you make as a blogger. It should be the first decision you make. If you look at any popular blog site you know which slice of the audience pie they are after, which theme their blog posts revolve around. Over at the Otherworld Diner they deliver their goal as bloggers on page one: Our staff is a collection of paranormal romance authors with one thing in common (besides a love for pie) — we dish up our paranormal with a sprinkle, a splash, or a heaping helpin’ of humor and wit. Come in and have a seat. The coffee’s hot and the blue plate special…