On Friday, I led a workshop called, Blogging for Writers. Here’s how it was described in the conference catalog. I think I wrote this description:

Blogging has become an essential tool for authors when promoting a
book. It’s also a great outlet for writers and journalists who want to
get their writing out into the world and command an audience of
thousands. Whether you want to create an author’s blog, a news blog, a
personal blog, a place blog, or a special topic blog, this workshop
will get you started. You don’t need to be a computer geek to be a
blogger, but you do need to understand some blogging basics. In this
workshop, you will learn how tot start a blog, as well as everything
else you need to know. Most importantly, you will learn how to attract
a large audience of readers.

Whoa, I can see why the participants, a great group of writers, poets, bloggers and would-be bloggers mostly from Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia, had loads of questions. That was a tall order to deliver in two hours People had questions galore and I did my best.

I tried to give the group a sense of my own journey as a blogger from 2004 until now. I tried to offer my Blogging 101 basics, and some clues as to how to get readers.

At the end of the class, we actually started a blogger blog. It’s not up and running just yet, but it was a great way to show new-bloggers just how easy it is to set things up.