{"id":570,"date":"2008-04-25T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T19:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/tips-for-writers-who-blog\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T19:24:09","slug":"tips-for-writers-who-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/outreach\/blogging\/tips-for-writers-who-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for writers who blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resourceful C.M. Mayo &#8212; a Flannery O&#8217;Connor Award for Short Fiction winner, the author or editor of several books, and founding editor of the bilingual chapbook series  <em>Tameme <\/em>&#8212; is preparing a panel on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmmayo.com\/events.html\">&#8220;Writers&#8217;s Blogs: Best (&amp; Worst) Practices&#8221; <\/a>for the Maryland Writers Association Conference. In preparation for the conference, she asked me to list three do&#8217;s and dont&#8217;s for writers&#8217; blogs. My answer in brief: Don&#8217;t be too self-referential, Do have a consistent focus, Do create useful and original content, Don&#8217;t confuse press releases and publicity materials with blog posts, Don&#8217;t blog in a vacuum, and Do be generous. To learn more you&#8217;ll have to head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/madammayo.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/guest-blogger-tom-christensen-right_25.html\" title=\"tom christensen guest blog at madam mayo\" target=\"_blank\">Madam Mayo&#8217;s place<\/a> and read the full post.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resourceful C.M. Mayo &#8212; a Flannery O&#8217;Connor Award for Short Fiction winner, the author or editor of several books, and founding editor of the bilingual chapbook series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}