The Bookshelf Battle Blog is sheer perfection, I know. Sheer delight for the eyes of my 3.5 readers.
But I’m looking for advice on making this fine blog even better.
So you write this list in the comments, 3.5 readers. You can be funny if you want but you don’t have to be. This blog rarely is so why start now?
Bookshelf Battle 
one idea – responsive web design
when I’m opening your blog on my phone everything is so tiny and that usually makes me turn it off because I’m too lazy to zoom in all the time
browser look is awesome
Thanks Magini. I’m glad you mentioned that.
I love this WordPress theme because it is so comic bookish looking. It has a nerdy vibe that fits what I am trying to do. But my understanding is to get a better look on phones, you have to pick a theme that comes with a good mobile design all set up – so when you blog it looks good on your computer and then you check your phone all your content is fitted just right for the phone.
I don’t believe this theme has that though someone could correct me if I’m wrong, maybe I just don’t know what I’m doing (I don’t often.)
I’d like to work on that because I understand that Google has made it so that mobile optimized sites get more hits…I’m just not sure how to do it without losing this delightful nerdy theme.
Also, I write a lot of posts and I know I need to organize them so people can read them. I blog. I blog more. Older posts go down the roll never to be seen again unless people dig for them.
I probably need to invest some time in creating different menu categories and posting links under those categories so people who come in because they liked one post can check out more posts.
I hope you’ll manage because your blog is great and it deserves more followers š
It really does. In all modesty, the world deserves my genius.
Finish, edit, and publish your book. LOL
Ugh, I’m so depressed lately about this. Bear with me a moment while I complain about myself.
At the end of last year, my plan was to use this year to go full force with my noir detective stories because I love writing in that voice. I feel like it ends up being more descriptive and while it still needed editing, not as much IMO.
My plan was to write a novel’s worth of posts on a spinoff blog that ties into this one leading up to the detective having to release the adventures of one of his past adventures in a novel…on Amazon.
But then I thought about it. It would take so long to write the posts. The year would be over. I’d have a nice second blog, but it’d be another year gone with no novels on Amazon.
So in January I said, “Hey I know. I’ll write a quick easy zombie story. Cowboys. Zombies. A new spin on the zombie apocalypse genre. Fun stuff. I’ll get it done by March.”
Now it’s April. It’s only half done. And at the end, I will have only really written a skeleton of a novel. I’ll still need to go back and rewrite it to fix everything obviously wrong to me before submitting it to an editor, who will then have to go over it, then Ill have to fix all the edits then I’ll have to figure out how to format an ebook…
….on top of all that it dawns on me as of late that if I write one and I feel like I could get two more stories out of it, I might as well write them all together for continuity, rewrite them all together, have an editor edit all three…
In other words…this year will end without me publishing a book and I won’t even have time to do the detective stories for a while.
If novels were women, I’d be the guy that cheats on the sweet, reliable, trustworthy wife for the hot crazy blonde. Sure, she seems like a good idea at the time but once you get her all she does is party with other dudes on your dime while you’re at home gnawing on a half-frozen microwave dinner like a sucker, wishing your wife would just stop by and pat you on the head.
But I am where I am. I am 50,000 words in. And I have written 5 parts – i.e. this is the first time where I can claim I have written cohesive units of a novel – collections of chapters that tell a part of the story – i.e. the first part where he goes up against Smelly Jack, the second part where he develops his love problems, the third part where there’s a trial and so on…
OK end of rant. I just am sad I won’t get a book out this year. The whole writing thing needs to take off within the next few years or I’ll have to quit. I’m already under tons of pressure to quit.
sigh, why can’t you have a damn contact button so we can continue this conversation in private.
Lol – it’s ok. I just wanted to complain. Technically, I’m a fictional character so I shouldn’t complain so much.
Sorry, I’m a real character. People just assume I’m fictional.
It has taken me awhile but I have had to accept that while working and tending to life needs I only have so much time to write and that’s how it will be.
I would love it if maybe one day this all takes off, I have my own little book company, I can get up in the morning, sit down at a desk, and put in a day of making crap up for a living. That way I probably could get to all my ideas…probably put out three novels a year.
But it’s where I am. And part of me tells me to be grateful that I’m able to do anything.
I wish all this technology existed when I was 20 though.
I will edit your book if you want.
That might be good. I foresee it taking a long time and it just frustrating. So many other ideas I also want to get to. But I have realized that if I keep quitting on half-written novels I’ll never finish one.