I think the best thing one can do is provide interesting content for the target audience, about any subject. A good writer should be able to make writing a fascinating topic, if done well. Some writers don’t approach blogging like they do their fiction, however, where being boring is the kiss of death.

I used to watch Brian Lamb’s interviews with writers, and he usually asked how they write. Long hand, typewriter, or computer? Do you write and then edit, or do you edit as you write? Do you set a daily word limit or do you write when the muse dictates? I find these personal tidbits of writers fascinating.

I love the lit blogs. They tend to inject bits of news about their lives and families. That’s fine. However, I’m totally turned off when they swerve into politics. It’s their blog; they can do as they please. But when they get political, I leave and rarely return.

But that’s just me.

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I love your website btw. Can’t decide which is my favourite page – the chicken sweaters, the binary hat… probably the voodoo swatches win. I’ll convert them for crochet!

@Dan Beeston – Twitter of course takes far less digesting than the average blog post, and one author’s whinge is diluted by everyone else’s tweets too. ‘Certain kind of madness’ – wot, us lot who scribble? ;0)

If you can write something of real value, then you absolutely should. I’ve been enjoying your recent writing posts because they contain actual content. Keep it up.

Just don’t post your word count…