Blogging Again

I have friends who are magnificent bloggers. (Russell Davies, Steve Bowbrick, take a bow). They know how to work in the blogging format. They may work very hard at it behind the scenes, but on the screen, it is very natural, affable, engaging.

I’m not like that. I’d describe myself as a novelist these days, and I don’t know of many or any novelists who are natural bloggers. I can think of three or four novelists (I won’t say who they are, this is not about naming and shaming), where the tab on their website for their blog is usually empty or paltry. We don’t think in a manner that works on a blog. We’re too long form.

Still, there are various bits and pieces I want to keep ticking over that don’t fit anywhere else, and a blog is a useful device for dropping links to my published pieces, etc. So I’m going to give it a go again, and see if I stick to it. And if I do, I’ll upgrade from WordPress to something more serious.

But in the meantime: howdy, my pals who still use feed readers, and have stood by the format while everyone else got distracted.