This Week In The Blogverse - Writing With Shelly and Chad

            A little later than I expected, but well worth the wait, here is a look at the blog written by Shelly and Chad. Shelly does a wonderful job promoting the blog and Chad has some chops in the industry due to work writing sketch comedy.

            They do a feature called Teach and Talk Tuesdays that caught my attention. The basic premise is that they invite a guest blogger submit a post about writing. This week that author happened to be me.
            You got to love that Shelly and Chad have found a way to get their blog written by someone else. As my fellow bloggers already know, it can be a challenge to produce content for a blog every week. But this doesn’t work unless you are good a promoting your blog or networking with other authors. I see this as a testament to their skills in this area that they are able to pull this off successfully.
            As for the readers, this is a nice feature. It introduces them to a variety of authors who give their own unique voice to whatever topic is being discussed that week. Not only does that allow for a fresh perspective on the writing craft it gives a chance for their followers to discover a new and interesting voice.
            Obviously, authors and perspective authors have a chance to learn something new. Because the posts tend to be bite-sized nuggets of wisdom they can check it out with a minimal amount of time invested. You can gain the distilled essence of a writing concept without having to read an entire book to get it.
            This is great for the guest bloggers as well. It gives them exposure to a new audience and may result in picking up a few followers. At the very least, appearing on multiple blogs helps to get the word out about the visiting author.
            The aspect I like best about this feature is that it gave me an opportunity to work with a couple of great people in the writing community. Networking is in every industry. The more you reach out to the other authors that you meet the more opportunities are going to come your way.
            Go ahead and cruise on over to Shelly’s and Chad’s place. Check out some of the Teach and Talk posts that have been submitted over the last few weeks; you may learn a thing or two. Feel free to see what they do the rest of the week as well.

            And I would be happy to do more guest blog posts on writing tips I’ve picked up from Hollywood (or any other topic). If that interests you just drop me a line.