If you’ve considered blogging for buzz, then decided that it’s not for novelists, think again. You can and should be blogging to build a platform while you’re writing.

This article gives you some great ideas, 13 Blog Post Ideas for Novelists | Michael Hyatt. Consider blogging:

“Excerpts from Your Novel. This is probably the easiest. It has the added advantage of allowing us, your potential readers, to “sample the brew.” Just write a paragraph to set up the excerpt. Oh, and be sure to link to your book, so we can buy it (duh).”

This is a great idea. Remember to blog regularly. It will inspire your writing. You always write more when you know that you have readers.

Alexandra Penney began blogging The Bag Lady Papers, a blog about losing all her money at the Daily Beast.

Now Memoirs of a Hermès bag lady | The Guardian reports:

“A year on, Penney has turned The Bag Lady Papers into a book, published in the US next week. When I called her in Manhattan on Thursday, she started by sounding upbeat: ‘In very many ways, it was a fantastic year. I got to travel – a magazine hired me to go to Africa which I would never have done in my previous life – and that was a big thing for me as I thought I would not be able to travel anymore.’”

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After several years of trial and error, these days I create blogs which I know will make money: I’ve cracked the code. Not only do my blogs make money almost immediately, they’ll also keep on making money for years to come.

If you wish, you can join me on the blogging journey. I hope you do. As the Internet grows ever larger, there are endless opportunities which can turn you into a lazy, rich blogger.

Want to write a book and get published? As I’ve been telling you for a while, it’s simple… start a blog.

An author interviewed in this article, From Blog to Book Deal: How 6 Authors Did It, reports:

“How did the book deal come about?: ‘Both agents and book publishers approached me once the site hit it big. I signed with an agent the next month, and had a book deal within weeks after that, so it all moved very fast.’”

No one reads unpublished authors, except their mothers, and then only under protest. But if you’ve got a reasonable idea for a book, and blog it, you will get publisher’s interest once you get readers.

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Yes, you can write more and become an expert writer – even if you’re a world-class procrastinator.

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Want to write a book? Start a blog.

That’s been the theme on THIS blog for quite a while. With blogging, you no longer have to pursue the horrid never-ending hassle of sending out query letters and proposals — you wait for publishers to come to you.

(I say “horrid” because it is: YOU don’t want to send out queries etc, and publishers and agents don’t want them either — they know they have a better chance of hitting the lottery than of finding anything of value in the slush pile.)

From Blog to Print, Laughing All the Way to the Bank – NYTimes.com reports:

“Mr. Birmingham started Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves in early January, uploaded the first entry and asked readers to contribute. Within days, visitors were supplying him with snapshots of bulldogs in bunny costumes and cats wearing wigs. The blogosphere noticed — and so did the publishing world. Within a week, he was contacted by editors and literary agents. By the second month, he said, he had sold a book based on the photos to Three Rivers Press, an imprint at Crown Publishing Group, for ‘enough money to buy a Lincoln Town Car’ — with change left over. “

Here’s the big benefit of blogging: if it’s a great book idea, people (readers and publishers) notice. If the idea stinks, it’s better you should find out now, and not after you’ve wasted three years of your life on it.

So, if you want to write a book, do it on a blog.

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Want to blog your book? It’s the fast and easy way to write your book. Who knows — you may even get a publisher before you finish writing.

Write a Book « Support « WordPress.com reports:

“We’ll show you a way to write something that is chapter-based using your WordPress.com blog. A blog is, essentially, a reverse chronological publishing tool. That’s what it is, and to make it behave differently you will need to do some work yourself. You will also need your readers to exercise some self-discipline (if at all possible, of course).”

Here’s more on why a blog helps you to write and get published.

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