Blogging offers a cheap and flexible way for writers to create a professional web presence.
The course will explain what a blog is and show you different ways in which you can use one to enhance your professional image as a writer. It will help you take decisions about which software to choose and how to focus your blog, as well as guiding you from the planning stage through to set up.
Course Outline:
What is a blog? History and background
Types of blog By context (personal blogs, business blogs, educational blogs...)
By content/ platform
Characteristics of a blog What makes a blog different from a traditional website
As well as providing a platform to display your creative skills, a blog can help you building a loyal readership and test market interest in your writing projects. This makes the blogoshpere the perfect place to demonstrate your sales potential to agents and editors.
Mentor
Gwyneth Box writes poetry and non-fiction in both Spanish and English and is an experienced commercial and literary translator. She has had photo-reports and articles published in international magazines and has won a number of UK poetry awards. As well as translations for web, screen and stage, she has translated ten children's books for the independent Spanish publisher, Topka, who have recently published her own bilingual children's picture-poem book Bubbles / Pompas. She is a qualified teacher, a Swanwick Writers' Summer School tutor, and a member of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists. Her personal blog can be read at dontconfusethenarrator.com
