Blogging Picture

Bill wants us to write another post, and likely have links back. Like Bill Belew Blogging Workshop. And you should open in a new window so people do NOT leave your website! I guess I should write a little more.

Here is an internal link to my previous post.

This opening-weblink-in-new-window is an HTML question that some companies will ask in phone interviews, by the way. I know, because I have been asked.

Bill says it is a good idea to get about 150 words per blog post. So that will be my target. Better than 140 Twitter characters. Really, the only use I have gotten out of Twitter is to say that I am doing an open mic reading. It takes me more than 140 characters to produce real content. Maybe I can tweet short expressions of some type, relating to my book.

Bill had us insert an image.

I intend to use a WordPress blog/website to promote my novel. So I am in Bill Belew’s blogging workshop. He has run through the beginnings of creating a WordPress blog.

Not Elvis Presley’s Bill Belew, but the blogging Bill Belew. This Bill does blogs on several topics: Christianity, China, cricket, and other Bill stuff. He pays his mortgage with the money he makes blogging.

I would like to make money also, but I would need topics to write about that people would want to read. Have to relate that to my novel. I might continue to use this blog, or I might choose a URL that is targeted more directly to my book.

Now, why haven’t I done this sooner? I hope we get to the making money part today (well, we still got a lot of time).

I am curious about how this compares to Facebook and the like. Well, unlike Facebook, I assume I do not have to keep inviting friends into the blog.

Anyhow, I want to make money like Bill does. Except he posts about 15 times a day! I will have to think about THAT! Just how often do I want to post!

OK, I put in a picture of my reading from my novel at a South Bay Writer’s Club Open Mic. Impressive, huh?

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