I guess you could also already have notoriety of some sort and then translate it into being a successful blogger (being regular and interesting, funny etc.) like Wil Wheaton: we already knew him as a kid from STNG and so reading his blog and then reading his books makes sense.
Now Neil Gaiman was already a famous writer before he had a blog (at least the Sandman novels ought to be older than the blog) and recently I read that he is feeling that in the ten years he's been doing the blog he's said everything he wanted to say and might stop: it's interesting to note that one of his publishers runs the backstage machinery for him and he just blogs.
All of the successful writer blogs (or any blogs) must first be interesting, before enough readers are there to make a difference in purchasing new books. That means the writer has to enjoy blogging. If they only do it for a special book promotion it falls asleep very soon.
I've realised that I only want to blog occasionally myself (I'm not a writer at all), what I really want to do is comment when a post interests or amuses me.
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Date: 2008-02-23 09:35 am (UTC)Now Neil Gaiman was already a famous writer before he had a blog (at least the Sandman novels ought to be older than the blog) and recently I read that he is feeling that in the ten years he's been doing the blog he's said everything he wanted to say and might stop: it's interesting to note that one of his publishers runs the backstage machinery for him and he just blogs.
All of the successful writer blogs (or any blogs) must first be interesting, before enough readers are there to make a difference in purchasing new books. That means the writer has to enjoy blogging. If they only do it for a special book promotion it falls asleep very soon.
I've realised that I only want to blog occasionally myself (I'm not a writer at all), what I really want to do is comment when a post interests or amuses me.
All this to say: I agree with you.