Comments on: Are you a Proactive Writer?

By: Lucy Coats

Lucy Coats — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:05:46 +0000

Gary–You can see the product of my cogitations on being proactive now at http://scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com/2009/11/writing-101-production-part-1-overview.html (and I’ve credited @BubbleCow + link to this post).

By: Gary Smailes

Gary Smailes — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:15:45 +0000

Marisa – I think the key in the early stages is to be effective on one platform at a time. I am only now considering branching into Facebook for BubbleCow. This is only after I feel we have developed a voice on twitter and the blog. Yet the fact you are thinking about promoting yourself as a writer in the first step.

By: Marisa Birns

Marisa Birns — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:07:27 +0000

Thanks for this post. It’s very scary this proactive writer business! I remember being brought to Twitter kicking and screaming, but I am glad I ended up here. There’s so much wonderful information to read. Yes, the times…they are a-changing.

Just as many do, I also have a blog. Mine, however, does not give advice or secrets for writers. It’s stories.

I hope, one day, to be among those writers you mention in your last sentence to Lucy.
http://bit.ly/HuAv7

By: Gary Smailes

Gary Smailes — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:31:22 +0000

Ohh Lucy very slick. I even clicked onto your blog!

I want to try and explain that the next wave of big writers are going to be those that build their own careers. Yes they will need a publisher but this will be a partnership, a method to sell books. In the background writers will be building their own brand. Writers we all now see in the blogs and twitter will grow into superstars.

By: Lucy Coats

Lucy Coats — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:23:48 +0000

This is what a modern author’s life has to be. We need to jump aboard this new technology train or we will get left behind. For me, Twitter has become by far the most useful interactive platform for getting my author profile out there–and I think it will keep on growing. I shall be blogging about this and other aspects of writing life in the coming weeks at http://www.scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com – starting today. See what I did there?! All part of the proactive New Deal.