Hey folks, just taking a little break from Children’s Writing Month to make some important updates
Guest post at LongShort Stories
My good friend Wayne Long is celebrating the 2 year anniversary of his site, LongShort Stories. It’s a great site that includes a lot of great short stories that folks can subscribe to. Wayne has got a great writing style and his stories are a fun read.
Wayne asked me to write a guest post to help celebrate and he posted it today.
Do me a favor and go check out Wayne’s site to help him celebrate his 2 year anniversary.
Flashy Fiction e-book
There’s just one more week left to promote the Flash Fiction e-book that includes your submissions from last month. If you contributed, make an extra effort to promote the book this week. Remember, the more the book sells, the greater the contest prize.
Feedback on Children’s Writing Month
Since I announced that June is Children’s Writing Month, traffic and comments have dropped to record low levels. I’m curious how folks feel about writing for children. Is this a second best kind of writing? Is there just no interest in he genre? Like I said, I’m very curious to know.
Community Expansion Challenge
Last month I posted a community expansion challenge, whereby I would select a writing blog that was not part of my normal rounds and then reach out to all of the commentors on a particular post. I chose to go to Renegade Writer. I posted a comment on a post with 23 commentors and then reached out to those commentors, visiting their sites and commenting or subscribing to their feeds. Here are the results:
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Damon Brown – http://damonbrown.net/category/blog/ journalism and such
Jill U Adams – http://www.jilluadams.blogspot.com/ writing portfolio
Mimi – http://www.whatmimiread.blogspot.com/ A new England Journalist
Elaine Appleton – http://www.appletongrant.com/Elaine_Appleton_Grant/Blog/Blog.html Writer/journalist
Andrew Mcmillen – http://andrewmcmillen.com/ This guy is awesome!
Kat – http://katarzynaradzka.today.com/2009/05/31/may-overview/ Writer blog
So far, only one has contacted me back in any form. It will be interesting to see what happens as the month progresses
Thanks for indulging this list of updates. As always, thanks for stopping by.
Seriously. It’s safe now. I was going to do one more post on quantum mechanics/physics and writing but I’ll do that another time. I’m serious.
