It’s been a while since I asked anyone to nominate me for a blogging competition.
I don’t want to be greedy. I’m already asking everyone I know to purchase a copy of my new book, The Writer’s Workout. (And yes, I’m asking you too. Please order soon!)
But what the heck, I have been blogging steadily and multiply since January 2007.
If you would like to nominate me for as one of the Top Ten Blogs for Writers, please do!
I’m going to be blogging more often than ever this year, since I’ll be promoting my new book all year, and responding to all of the questions and concerns that writers bring up while I’m around and about.
So let’s see if we can still get me in the game. What do you say?
If we are going to do this thing, we’d better hurry, the nominations end by December 10th (so I think that means by the end of the day on the 9th, I’m not sure, let’s go with that).
Here’s the rules (taken from this post):
How to Nominate Your Favorite Writing Blog:
→ Nominate your favorite blog in the comment section.
→ You have only one vote (only your first will be counted).
→ Please include the web address of the blog.
→ Explain why you think the blog is worthy of winning this year’s award.
To make the cut, a blog must be nominated more than once.
Need ideas? Here’s the 411 on me as a blogger over the past four years:
I’ve been blogging continuously since January 2007.
I started blogging my The Writer Mama Riffs blog and my Writers On The Rise blog.
I ran each of those blogs for two years, not only blogging regularly myself but also featuring many co-contributors such as Kelly James Enger, C. Hope Clark, and many more.
While I was already running those two blogs, I started my Get Known Before the Book Deal blog in January 2008 and ran it for two years with more great contributors such as Meryl K. Evans and Cindy Hudson, and many more.
Eventually running all of these overlapping blogs proved to be too much time and creative energy away from my paying work, so in November 2009, I built THIS blog and started phasing out my old blogs and pouring everything into this one.
I’m not sure that I have been the most perfect blogger in the extended writing community (if there is any such thing), but I have definitely experimented a lot, been pretty darn consistent for FIVE years, and I have learned a ton.
Along the way, I have helped to expand the reach of many writers, who have worked with me. Quite a few of them have gone on to get book deals and ramp up substantial platforms as experts. At some point I realized that I needed to either focus on expanding my classes and taking good care of my students or being the most popular blogger on the block.
But you know what? When I let go of being the most popular blogger on the block, that’s when I feel like I found my blogging legs.
When I stopped focusing on pointing the spotlight on others and just started standing in the spotlight myself and taking the mic and letting whatever I wanted to say come out, that’s when things got cool.
I hate to see blogging become something with too much peer pressure and parameters and unspoken rules.
I think the highest path for a blog is for it become what it wants to become according to what makes the most sense for the blogger, the audience and the topic.
That’s what I teach my students anyway. Because I don’t want them to have to spend years blogging “right” before they finally start blogging real.
My blog is a work in progress. I change the name as often as I change my hairstyle. I don’t blog only about writing because I don’t like that rule. In addition to blogging, I also write books, ebooks, curricula, articles, and things in forms that don’t even have names yet.
I blog because I want to blog. Because I love to blog. Because it’s a natural extension of who I am and what I do.
If you think any or all of this is worth a vote, then thanks for voting for me.
Hop on over to WriteToDone, Unmissable Articles On Writing and nominate me accordingly.
I always appreciate your support. Thank you for reading.