[LMB] (chat) Amazon UK musing

[Martin Gill]

I suppose it depends how much and what you write about.

If you document everything you do from what you had for breakfast etc
then I suspect you're right and nothing will ever get done anymore.

One blog (actually really the only one) that I regularly read is
Random Acts of Reality, about an ambulance driver in North East
London. Really interesting stuff, and makes you really appreciate what
those guys (and gals) have to go through, and just how much time is
wasted by idiots that dial 999 (911 for you USians, 112 for Europeans
etc...) because their child has a headache, or a tiny scratch.

He's received quite a lot of (mainstream)media attention recently
because he's just released a book (basically a slightly edited version
of selected blog posts). The books doing rather well it seems.

The site is here: http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog

The book is available under a Creative Commons license so you can
download it from here:
http://www.thefridayproject.co.uk/books/bst/cc.php

or of course you can buy it at amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1905548230?tag=randomactsofr-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1905548230&adid=0D1TW9DM5R8GWBDRZADV&

Anyway.. might give you some ideas on what to write.

If you're in any doubt, I'd love to read a blog by you Lois. I suspect
most people here would as well.

I suspect what you'd need is an angle (or a plot :P ). Maybe life of
an author, things like writers block, publishing, editing, the whole
process etc. Might mean that there won't be that many posts while your
really busy writing, but lots while you are promoting, and commenting
on signings and conventions and stuff.

No idea what the difference between a blog and a live journal is. I
always thought they were the same. Maybe it's a trademark issue.

On 01/11/06, Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:
> [LMB] (chat) Amazon UK musing
> Martin Gill martinsgill at gmail.com
> Wed Nov 1 13:19:50 GMT 2006
>
>
> Hmm.. think I need to go read the FAQ again. Are we using new tags?
> e.g. (Chat) and [NOT] (is that "Not OT"?)
>
>
> *** I have a kludgy sort of home-made blog going on the Dendarii
> website, whereby I have Mike Bernardi copy selected of my posts to the
> chat list to a separate file, where folks who don't want to sort through
> the whole list may more readily find them.  I'm not sure how well it
> works for PR, since I don't think very many people know it's there.  But
> anyway, I mark such posts (news) or (chat) or sometimes both, so Mike
> will know to pull them from the stream.
>
> http://www.dendarii.com/news.html
>
> I think the [NOT] on that other post was some sort of editorial
> comment.  OT: I'll let someone else explain, and I'm not quite sure
> where the [LMB] comes from.
>
> If, by the way, anyone has suggestions for improving the indexing on the
> main site page, do trot them out.  I can't always find things I'm
> looking for myself, but I don't know what is or isn't intuitive to folks
> generally.
>
> I'm occasionally tempted by the idea of setting up a blog or live
> journal (what, by the way, is the difference?) except for a suspicon
> that I'd never get another novel written after that.
>
> Ta, L.
>
>
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