{"id":227,"date":"2013-04-16T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2013-04-17T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:17:51","slug":"amwriting-three-goals-for-my-new-blog-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"AmWriting: Three goals for my new blog series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/images\/uc_20130416_w300.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" \/>My goal is to write a post each week about my experiences writing my current work-in-progress, the third book in my MUSES OF ROMA sci-fi\/alt-history epic. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m going to call this series &#8220;AmWriting,&#8221; after the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23amwriting&amp;src=tyah\">popular Twitter hashtag<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>What do I hope to accomplish with these posts?  Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 1.25em bold Georgia; color: #000;\">Goal #1: I need content!<\/p>\n<p>Coming up with blog ideas is hard, folks, so I need <em>something<\/em> to write about each week. I may detail my writing process, provide an interesting gem I learned from my Roman\/scientific\/etc. research, talk about marketing\/social media ideas for authors, or simply whine about how hard writing is, and that I should just give up now, and that I feel like one of those <em>American Idol<\/em> contestants who don&#8217;t know how bad they are&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Whoa. I&#8217;ll save that for a future post.<\/p>\n<h3>Goal #2: Paying it forward<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been studying the fiction craft for over ten years. I&#8217;ve learned a few things here and there. If any of my posts inspire one budding writer to start the first sentence of her first novel, then I&#8217;d consider goal #2 accomplished.<\/p>\n<h3>Goal #3: Buzzzzz&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>I got the idea for this series from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/en\/community\/community\/resources\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/building-buzz-before-you-publish\">CreateSpace Community blog<\/a>, which suggested that writing about your experiences while writing a book is a good way to generate buzz about said book before it&#8217;s published. Whether I go traditional or indie with my MUSES OF ROMA series, any pre-publication buzz, such as it is, will come in handy.<\/p>\n<p>So. I can&#8217;t guarantee every post will be helpful, but I&#8217;ll sure try to make it interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goal is to write a post each week about my experiences writing my current work-in-progress, the third book in my MUSES OF ROMA sci-fi\/alt-history epic. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m going to call this series &#8220;AmWriting,&#8221; after the popular Twitter hashtag of the same name. What do I hope to accomplish with these posts? Well&#8230; Goal #1: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,28,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amwriting","category-novels","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}