Blogging has been cool for writers ever since Neil Gaiman had an online journal around the birth of American Gods. Then there’s Warren Ellis and his various forums, John Scalzi’s Whatever, Elizabeth Bear’s they must need bears …. as well as all the reasons for having at least a website that Rachel Vater mentions.

(Rachel is Lit Agent X, by the way. Better add her to your bookmarks or your feed reader.)

But blogging is a new thing for a lot of writers, oddly enough. If you’ve never worked in various mediums before, blogging will be a rather different experience. And even if you have, blogging still merits a different approach than anything else out there.

So I’m starting a weekly series on blogging advice for writers.

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