Spotlight: Writeminded
A visit to Writeminded is like a lunch out with your friends, a slumber party with the girls, and a drink at the bar at an RWA conference, all rolled together. Writeminded is a group blog. A group blog has multiple authors who each write posts on scheduled days. The authors behind Writeminded are Stephanie Tyler, Amy Knupp, Larissa Ione, Jaci Burton, and Sharon Long/Maya Banks. The benefits of group blogging are tempting–you don’t have to be responsible for keeping the blog active on a daily basis. (Many bloggers participate in both a group blog and their own blog, thereby increasing their visibility and sharing traffic between sites.) There are great group blogs….and not so great group blogs. Unfortunately, some group blogs leave the impression they’ve been thrown together with little investment, either in time or money, and the postings can be erratic both in schedule and tone, leaving visitors not sure what they’re going to get on any given day…..and just as likely to not bother coming back at all.
Writeminded was one of the first group writer blogs, and remains a standard-bearer today. The faces behind Writeminded change periodically, but the blog’s style and downright delicious fun remains. It is, always, like sitting down to one big giant bowl of ice cream.
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