Hey everyone! It’s Clara Kensie, back with a new Question of the Week! Pretty much the only thing writers love as much as writing is talking about writing. So each week here at Adventures in YA Publishing, I post a question for you to answer. The questions cover all topics important to writers: craft, career, writers’ life, reading and books. Together we’ll become better writers by sharing tips and discussing our habits and practices.
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MY ANSWER: I used to subscribe to dozens of blogs, mostly author, industry, and writing-tip blogs (I also used to do a writing-tip roundup for Adventures in YA Publishing). I couldn’t keep up with them all and my Google Reader (now defunct) contained hundreds of unread posts. I learned so much, but eventually I realized that I was spending more time reading blogs about HOW to write than I was actually writing. Now, I subscribe to only a handful of blogs. Most of them are YA book review blogs—and Adventures in YA Publishing, of course. Instead of subscribing via RSS feed, I subscribe via email so I’m sure to read each post. I don’t comment very often—a habit I want to change. I still read author, industry, and writing-tip blogs, but usually I discover those posts through links on Twitter and Tumblr.
YOUR TURN: How many blogs do you subscribe to? What kind of blogs? How much time per day/week do you spend reading blogs? Do you subscribe via RSS or email? Do you read them all every day? What motivates you to comment?
