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Visiting Writer Blogs #IWSG

Jennifer Lane
Join us for monthly blog posts at The Insecure Writers Support Group, created by Ninja Captain Alex.

Thank you to this month’s co-hosts! Janet Alcorn, SE White, Victoria Marie Lees, and Cathrina Constantine.

February 7 question: What turns you off when visiting an author’s website/blog? Lack of information? A drone of negativity? Little mention of author’s books? Constant mention of books?

One aspect I enjoy most about IWSG is the opportunity to check out different writer blogs. It’s fun seeing how creative minds design their blog or answer the question of the month so uniquely. I like to see published authors’ book covers, and attempts at humor endear me to the writer.

I do find it frustrating when I have trouble locating the blog URL or IWSG post for that month. I’m even more frustrated when Blogger won’t let me comment from my MacBook. I also prefer to avoid reading political commentary, which seems to polarize and infect almost every aspect of life.

How is your writing coming along?

Image by Markus Winkler from Pixabay

I haven’t made much progress on my new novel, but a recent swim vacation to Belize inspired my thinking about plot and characters. This school of blue tang mesmerized me.

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Published by Jennifer Lane

I write sports romance and suspense with a psychological twist.

17 thoughts on “Visiting Writer Blogs #IWSG”

  1. Hi,

    The blue tang ? Amazing –

    Political commentary ? In the UK, time to delete almost. Blogger ? Frustrating ?I live in a deadzone,no signal, barely there broadband, and even the birds can’t tweet. ( ravens, buzzards, peregrines) Perhaps Google can’t believe this ? Sign in security fails, or Blogger thinks I’m a fraudster, on a strange device, meaning a place where everything works…

    This was going to be the year of a real website – not just a blog, And trying maybe, to promote a book, any book. .

     

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  5. I use a PC but still find Blogger frustrating. I have multiple Google accounts, and when I go to leave a comment, Blogger should let me choose which one I want to use. But most of the time, that doesn’t work, so I have to use a different browser (in which I’m signed in to only my author Google account) to leave comments.

    I hear you about the political commentary. I don’t mind that people are upfront about their politics (you can probably figure out mine if you read my posts closely enough), but I don’t want to read about it in detail all the time. I have other places I can go to read about political stuff.

    My writing is going… OK. I’m having trouble sleeping, so I’m not getting up consistently early enough to allow for morning writing time.

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  8. Admittedly, I really haven’t written anything for the last two months because of my upcoming book release, but I’m itching to get back to it. Soon! I also find it really frustrating if I have to look for the blog post for IWSG or whatever other hop I might be participating in.

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