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Thank you for welcoming me into your virtual home as the guest host of this week’s WDC For Authors Newsletter.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad,
but it's the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner
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Greetings, fellow authors!
Once upon a time, not very long ago in the world of computing, a weblog ("blog") was a venue for communicating with family and friends, the nascent form of social media. Today, blogs have become more a vehicle for creative self-expression and communication with a community, be it technical, social, educational, professional. Note the operative word, creative. 
As authors today, we are expected to be active participants in the marketing of any published work, not just self-published, but work accepted by a publisher and/or agent, even before a book is finalized an submitted. It's a way for an author to make herself/himself known to publishers, fellow writers, as well as - key thought here - potential readers 
But you don't have to go to Wordpress or pay for a website. Our Community offers the option to create one or more blogs onsite. We also have the ability to offer a link to our Writing.Com blog from offsite, as part of our signature on email (Outlook, Yahoo, etc.) Remember, however, that for non-residents of our Community to see your blog, it needs to be public, viewable by all.
So, we accept that it's likely a necessity if one seeks publication to have a blog for potential publishers, but that seems like more work, to take time from our 'real' writing. I say that's not the case; that blogging is a creative tool for our writer's toolbox. Let's consider the how and why of blogging for us, as authors, of prose and verse. Remember, it's a creative exercise.
 It makes of us more skilled writers. Sitting down and writing, the act of writing, be it verse, prose, opinion, news offers us practice in writing technique and creative expression.
 If you choose to interact and communicate with others via your blog, it helps to focus, to tighten your prose writing skills; also I think it helps strengthen the ability to effectively review and critique both your own, and others' writing.
It's a learning experience. To craft effective posts for a blog, we read, we digest what we've read, and we interpret, and create
A blog puts a writer out there, makes us visible and searchable. Fellow writers, potential publishers, and potential future readers, as well as friends, can find us, read our words, and get to know who we are.
Blogging is networking, getting to know fellow authors, help each other, share successes and commiserate about challenges and setbacks. The act of writing is solo, alone, but need not be a lonely experience.
Blogging challenges the brain through writing and learning and creating; keeps the old brain young(er)  Creativity in other venues, I think, is a side benefit of blogging.
Blogging is self-expression. However on approaches a blog, be it as social media, personal expression, skillset expansion - here I think of blogging to prompts - WDC has several great forums I'll cite to later.
Blogging is, last but not least, fun 
Enjoy the experience, and
Write On 
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
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I invite you now to check out some of the weblogs created and maintained by several of our members, as well as a few blogging groups in our Community, each of which welcomes fellow authors as members. Visit, comment, perhaps offer a review.{/I
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Thank you for welcoming me to your virtual author's den. As your guest host, I have no formal ask and answer, but I hope I've answered here some questions or concerns you've had about the value of creative blogging in your writer's toolbox.
Until we next meet,
Happy Blogging
Write On
Kate
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