Blog: Why Aren’t We Chatting?

Tonight I logged onto Writers Chatroom tonight to discuss 25 tips for gaining blog traffic with other writers. Audrey Shaffer, the moderator of Writers Chatroom, does an excellent job of providing content and discussion for writers of all experience levels. Though her mailing list is apparently 2200, she doesn’t get more then a couple of dozen people in her bi-weekly chats.

Why is that?

There is a resource here, free of charge, where writers can spend just a little time once or twice a week, discussing things that are important to writers AND do networking as well. I logged in tonight not just to pimp my own books but to look for authors that had finished novels that they might want to submit for publication. But hardly anyone showed, which disappointed me.

Writers don’t just get published because of sheer talent. Persistence is part of it, and networking is a huge part of the industry. Most of my publishing gigs I received because I knew people and proved to them I could turn around a deadline. Writing is the first part of getting published. Networking is the first part of selling your work.

So what are you doing on your Sunday and Wednesday nights? Why aren’t we chatting? Because we should be. And I would love to hear from you.