2018 WRITE: Writing: Create a collaborative blog to market your writing

Create a collaborative blog 
to market your writing

Suggestions on how to use a collaborative blog to market fiction.  Use it as an online writer's colony.  Cooperate on promoting you fiction and building an audience for the blog.  Suggestions for starting a blog, finding collaborators, creating content, promotion, monetizing, and meeting on the web.  #web-world  #socialmedia  #virtualworld  #MUVE  

• Collaborative blog: Multiple authors publishing on the same theme.
• Online writer's colony: Writers collaborating online.

Starting

• Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary
• The whys and hows of blogging
• Blogging for beginners, the virtual world advantage
• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote. Summary

Contents

• How can I find other writers online?
• Why collaborative?
• Suggestions for content
• Promotion
• Can we make money on the blog?
• Will Selby create a collaborative writer's blog?
• Meeting on the web

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• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 12/10/2018

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How can I find other writers online?

• Writing groups (Google search)
• The writing communities of the virtual worlds. What do they offer to writers?

Why collaborative?

• A successful blog needs to publish frequently.
• How often should a blog post?
• If you are busy writing a novel, will you have time to meet the desired schedule?
• For several writers working together, the schedule should be a piece of cake.
• A blog with several writers can have the variety of a magazine.  
• Collaborative fiction blogging in a virtual world. Writing need not be lonely
• Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds
• A Virtual World Magazine could also be a blog

Suggestions for content

• Have a theme or genre.  Stick to it.
• Announce book publications.
• Review published books.
• Copy a scene from your book; explain why and how you wrote it.
• Write an article as one of your characters.  Talk about a scene in the book.
• Write a scene between two of your characters. 
• Work with another writer to create a scene sharing characters from two books,
• Publish a serialized short story as illustrated here:
• My Name Is Jane. Plain Jane. Part 1
• Invite readers to post questions about writing.  Answer those questions.
• If you want people to talk about your blog, don't lock them out
• Use what you know about the hook:
• Give your blog article a search description, teaser, or other short promotion
• Steer traffic to previous articles.
• Promote your evergreen content
• This blog is curated: How to use search to find things. Digital smarts
• A curated blog, what, why, and how. View counts for my top curating pages

Promotion

• Invite academics to post guest articles.
• Set up a blogroll linking to other literary blogs, suggest that they reciprocate.
• The following article has content that is useful beyond virtual worlds:
• Promotion from Virtual Worlds. Summary
• And you can use web-worlds, to promote your blog and products.
• Pay attention to search engine optimization:
• SEO tips for promoting your virtual community (Not how to cheat with SEO)
• Talk show, presentation facilities available on the web
• Invited articles and press releases for this blog
• Invited articles and press releases
• Hypergrid communication quest, What we can get from MeWe?
• How do we replace Google Plus? Preliminary ideas
• Social Media: YouTube cannot replace G+. But it can do outreach better
• Top five Social Media sites to promote your virtual world projects
• Promotional videos made in Second Life
• Promotional videos made in Virtual Worlds
• Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds
• A dozen+ tips for building your blog about virtual worlds
• Web-worlds for promotion: Come to my web-world, promote your project
• A curated blog, what, why, and how. View counts for my top curating pages

Can we make money on the blog?

• You can sell ads on your blog.   
• See this:  Sell ads on your blog (Google search)
• Don't expect to make much money unless you get a big audience.
• (Yes, just like with a novel.)

Will Selby create a collaborative writer's blog?

• No.  Sorry, but I have my hands full with this reasonably successful blog.
• I will consider press releases and short stories for publication. 
• The author would be identified as an invited author.
• To contact me about this or any other matter, put a comment on my blog or--
• Drop by Cybalounge at my office hours if you would like to talk with me about it.

Meeting on the web

• Drop by my web office Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
• Cybalounge, entry place.  #web-world
• We can also visit 3DWebWorldz, a professionally-built MUVE. 
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  
• If you see no one, click the pointed push-pin (bottom line) to find me.
• Look on the Public tab for places that have people in them
• I am Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Web-worlds are small and run in a browser with nothing else to install.
• The Metaverse Coming to a Web Page Near you!

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