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Blogs by Jean Sheldon
A Sense of Community
5/16/2007 6:19:36 AM
In my previous blog, I talked, well, whined about marketing a self-published book. Since then I’ve heard from friends and strangers with good advice and good wishes. That is reassuring, because it’s rare to feel a sense of community in this frantic world.
I am as new to blogs as I am to the above-mentioned experience, but I’m beginning to see the value in both. As I read the blogs of other members of AuthorsDen.com I realize I am far from alone. My thoughts, fears, joys, and sorrows are not unique to me. I don’t know why there’s such comfort in that, but there is.
I was fifty-three when I started writing and fifty-six when I decided it was time to publish. I chose to self-publish because it seemed silly to wait to find agents or publishers. It is impossible to know if that was a good choice or not, but I’ve always been a ‘let’s do it’ kind of person.
If the value of blogging was to my soul, then the value of self-promoting was to my intellect. I could not help but learn more about being a good writer traveling around cyber space looking for ways to market.
The experience may be frustrating at times. It may take me away from my new lover (writing), but the lessons are many. They are the kind I can only learn from diving head first into the depths of my fear and my ignorance. They are the kind that will bring me back to the surface, safe and eager to go in again.
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• An Uncommon Magpie born on the Common - Thursday, July 26, 2007
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• Reality Check - Sunday, July 22, 2007
• Priorities - Thursday, July 19, 2007
• Selling Yourself—Selling Your Books - Monday, July 16, 2007
• Okay, call me a Hypocrite - Sunday, July 15, 2007
• You Find Life When You Live It - Saturday, July 14, 2007
• Make some Room for the Rest of Us - Thursday, July 12, 2007
• Ego - Wednesday, July 11, 2007
• How do you Stay Calm in the Chaos? - Monday, July 09, 2007
• Twilight Zoned - Sunday, July 08, 2007
• Take Two Books and Call me in the Morning - Thursday, July 05, 2007
• Survival of the Considerate - Monday, July 02, 2007
• Listless on the DorothyL Listserve - Thursday, June 28, 2007
• Which way do you think our feet are facing? - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
• Always - Monday, June 25, 2007
• Upstaged by a Pigeon - Saturday, June 23, 2007
• Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Friday, June 22, 2007
• The Boundaries we call Safe - Monday, June 18, 2007
• Only You Know What you Want to Achieve - Friday, June 15, 2007
• Buy my book—too subtle? - Monday, June 11, 2007
• The Great Albuquerque Mouse Tragedy - Sunday, June 10, 2007
• When are you the Most Creative? - Thursday, June 07, 2007
• I Love My Socks - Thursday, June 07, 2007
• One Man’s Peace is Another Man’s War - Tuesday, June 05, 2007
• Writer’s Block—you have the right to remain silent - Saturday, June 02, 2007
• Creating can be Scary - Wednesday, May 30, 2007
• If you can’t say something nice…say something - Monday, May 28, 2007
• How far do you go? - Thursday, May 24, 2007
• Sociably Shy - Wednesday, May 23, 2007
• Grist for the idea mill - Monday, May 21, 2007
• A Sense of Community - Wednesday, May 16, 2007
• Some Thoughts on Self-publishing - Monday, May 14, 2007
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