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Prompt: What do you think is necessary to turn your blog into a published book? Do you need to base your blog on one topic or theme? Or have random entries like we do with here in the group? Do you think we will see blogs published as books in the future?

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Publishing a blog was never my intention. With my first blog, I was keeping to the topic of writing and literature in general. When I began blogging with Blog City, that idea went down the drain, since the themes and the focus of the prompts were all over the place. So I put up this second blog item for from-prompt-blogging.

Truth is, I love the prompts. Because of them I am writing every day and finding this practice very easy because writing in my blog takes fifteen minutes, more or less. Sometimes, I edit a comma, a double-written word, or something like that, but that’s all. This is the ideal writing regimen for me, since I absolutely hate revisions, and I can even write into the blog in between the other real-life things I am doing.

As to blogs getting published as books, it is already being done all over the net. Some people write their novels in blogs. If I were to have a goal or vocation oriented blog outside of WdC, chances are I would stick to one subject. That is the advice given for establishing and keeping followers.

Yet, my blogs are for me, for WdC, and whoever wishes to look at them from the outside, and I am quite happy with the status quo because I can experiment with my voice and subject matter as much as I like. I think, blogging this way is the ideal form of keeping up with my writing no matter what else happens in my other real or writing life, and I suspect this also works for other bloggers here in Blog City.