Jerry W Stewart

I’ve been trying to think of some gimmicks for the blog. I have a few ideas that I’ve stolen borrowed from other blogs, but I would like your input. I really want this to be a daily blog, but some days, I’m not sure what to write about. I would like to have a reoccurring weekly post on a specific day, and I would like to do a few series post.

Some ideas for a reoccurring post:

• Work in Progress Wednesday (Elena Johnson) – discuss our current works in progress
• A writing prompt once a week followed with short stories or links to ss posted in the comments
• Publishing Tip Tuesday – a weekly tip about getting published

Ideas for a series of posts:

• How to query an Agent
• Do you need an agent?
• Finding the time to write

Those are just a few of my suggestions. I’m open to yours. Please let me know which ideas interest you or any new ideas that you would like to see me write about. Also, let me know what works on my blog and what you think doesn’t work. One thing I’ve already decided to do is to exclude the book reviews from the main page. I’m going to restrict them to the Reviews page only. I would rather my main page be filled with writing advice, publishing tips, and the like.

Thank you in advance for your comments. Any and all constructive comments will be greatly appreciated. Rude comments, as always, will be deleted.

– Jerry Stewart

Artist: Hinder
Album: Extreme Behavior
Song: How Long

This is my first official post and I’m making it on my birthday. It’s a birthday present from me to me. I’ve been wanting to get this blog up and running, so I’m trying to get my first post on here, today. This is the first step to making it live. I’ve spent a lot of time playing with WordPress, WordPress themes, and Windows Live Writer. I think I’ve finally become familiar enough with those applications to start blogging.

I’ve given this blog a lot of thought and I think I’ve finally narrowed down the theme and layout to something I like and hope my readers will find enjoyable, maybe even useful. First of all, I have an about page that tells a little bit about me and my family. Check it often, because I will probably update and change it often. There is also of course the Home/Blog page which will be dedicated to my life, my adventures in writing, my research into writing methods and getting published, and other things about the writing industry that I find interesting. There will also be a section where I intend to write reviews of books I have read or synopses of books I intend to read. If you like any of the books there will be an Amazon link for each one that will have my affiliate information built into the link. If you use my link I’ll receive a small percentage of the profit and use it to help cover the cost of my hosting and domain purchasing. Thank you in advance for helping out. And finally I plan to offer some original short stories under the creative commons license. They should be up there as I write them and find enough bravery to publish them on the site.

I am not a published author, yet, unless you count a poem I wrote when I was 12 years old that got published in one of those buy-your-own-copy companies. I don’t personally count that as being published and I’m not really looking to publish poetry anyway. I’m mostly interested in Urban Fantasy fiction, which tends to cross a few genres (Young Adult/Teen, Romance, Sci-Fi, Horror). I’m mostly interested in the YA genre so a lot of my book reviews and short stories will be YA. Don’t be surprised to find stuff outside the genre, because my interest vary from time to time.

I hope you enjoy my blog. Please check back often and hopefully I’ll get RSS setup real soon…maybe.