Where Do Writers Discuss Their Craft Here?
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I’m very new to WordPress and have just got a few likes, but no comments on the several posts I have put up during the last two weeks. In one instance, my stats isn’t even acknowledging that one of my pieces if published, even though my dashboard acknowledges it as Published. Apart from writers I bring in from outside to review my pieces, I am getting no feedback on my writing. Where do writers who use WordPress discuss their craft, how to find an agent, etc.? Thanks.
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If you mean, “where do bloggers go to talk about the process of blogging on WordPress.com”, then here in the ideas forum would be a reasonable place (depending on what type of conversation you were looking for).
If you mean, “where on WordPress.com do writers talk about the craft and process of writing as a hobby/profession”, there isn’t really an answer. Have you looked for other writing bloggers on WordPress.com? Perhaps leave them comments or contact them regarding trading some feedback for feedback.
Aside from that, there are many writers forums on the internet that would probably be a good place to start.
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Thanks for your response. I have sent an email to one person who “Liked” one of my pieces and left her email address. Haven’t heard a peep back from her. I don’t know what’s going on there. How would I located, on Word Press, the blogs of other fiction writers?
If you could mention a few of the better writers forums that you know of on the Internet, that would also be appreciated.
Many thanks :)
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Hi there,
If you are a writer or poet focused on improving your writing, getting published or selling your published work, then you may wish to locate and join smaller social networks specifically for writers and readers. I dedicated some time to researching this topic and have come up with some sites in Promoting Your Writing or Poetry Blog http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/06/26/promoting-your-writing-or-poetry-blog/
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Thanks for the tips on the other writers’ sites. I’m still curious as to why Word Press does not set up a forum for fiction writers? The world isn’t a blog. Thanks
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All bloggers are experiencing the decline in commenting that social networking has led to. raincoaster states it here:
Legitimate discourse about blog posts has moved to social media platforms. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/lurk-like-follow-or-comment-what-do-you-do?replies=22#post-1538121
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The world isn’t a blog.
This is a blogging platform that is ever evolving but I don’t perceive a role for WordPress.com when it comes to setting up forums for each and every Topic (niche) we blog in and I don’t think providing a forum strictly for fiction writers is a good business plan. When we had an Off Topic (discussion) forum and a Showcase (blog promotion) forum in the past both were abused and considerable Staff and Moderator time was spent on policing them.
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Then Word Press is not a writer’s venue. It is a venue for those interested in blogging? There was nothing in the promoti0onal material for Word Press to lead me to understand Word Press was pretty much structured to bring bloggers–not writers–together.
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WordPress.com is a blogging platform not a writing forum. http://en.wordpress.com/about/ WordPress.com provides blogs and free hosting free features and support. There are around 38 million free blogs here that all receive free hosting, free support a wealth of free features. http://en.wordpress.com/features/
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If you need help with increasing blog traffic and encouraging discussion see these for Staff tips:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Blogging is not writing. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
Two ways of attracting like-minded subscribers are (1) commenting meaningfully and frequently on blogs with similar content and (2) being active on social networking sites.
These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-traffic/To provide for blog centered community building see what follows.
You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:
These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.
Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/
You can customize the contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
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Thanks for the tips. Am I correct in understanding that Word Press makes NO claims of any kind on the written material we post on Word Press? I checked out some of these other writing sites, and while they acknowledged the writer retains ownership, they reserved to themselves the right to distribute ,in part of whole, any material posted on their site. Obviously, no oe aware of that is going to go along with it.
Can you clarify Word Presses’ TOS as regards copyright of materials posted on its site(s)? Thanks -
Here is the link to the Terms of service. We own our own content.
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they reserved to themselves the right to distribute ,in part of whole, any material posted on their site.
That also applies here and if it did not then there would be no apps like Publicize that we could use to autopost content to social networking sites. There would be no authority to include excerpts of our posts under the Topics (Tags and Categories) pages http://wordpress.com/tags/ and http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ or in the WordPress.com Reader.
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Good lord! I just read over the TOS, and this time caught the bit about WordPress reserving to itself the right to use my writing as it pleases. Heck with that. I didn’t see that first go-through on reading the TOS. I’ve taken all my material down. Please delete my site. I’ve changed my username and every else in a desperate attempt to delete my site. It was called “Who Are We Now?” My old username was MsTruNorth. Pls delete all remnants of my presence on WordPress. Cripes!
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Nah, that TOS should be specific to those limited uses if posted material if all that claim of rights to posted material is for is as you claim. As I said, I’ve taken all my material down, and I am now asking you to delete all remnants of my account. Had I noticed this in my first read-through of the TOS I never wold have set up a site here. I guess it’s back to having other writers into the home.
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If you would like to delete your WordPress.com site, there are options and instructions for doing so here:
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@fingdelete-
By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog.
This is the mechanism by which WordPress.com is able to send out emails to your followers when you publish a new post, feature you in Freshly Pressed, have your posts appear in the WordPress.com tag/Reader pages, and allow reblogging of your content for promotion purposes and probably a few other places that I can’t remember because I haven’t yet had my morning coffee.
And this is not the first time this topic has come up. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-copyright-issues?replies=18#post-462356
@rootjosh-It would be nice to add back the “you retain all copyrights to your original material” or some such to the TOS, if in fact that is the case. My 2¢ worth.
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@fingdelete- and just to forestall the inevitable, once you delete your site, neither you nor anyone else will ever be able to use that URL in the future. So think it over carefully and perhaps make the site Private instead under Dashboard>Settings>Reading>Privacy.
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When I moved here with my main site I had to read the TOS several times to understand what was going on – without the part Jennifer refers to WordPress.COM would not be able to display your blog to readers anywhere at all – sort of convoluted in some ways – but if my memory is correct in another section there is the part that we retain all rights to our work that we put in a blog here and that WordPress.COM retains no rights to the work after we remove our work from their servers –
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WordPress.COM is also a writers platform – very easy to write and get your work onto the internet
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