Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Writing Today: Facebook, If You’re Trying To Build A Business

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

Writing today, and building a business on Facebook

I know that many writers today build their writing business on Facebook. Why not? It’s easy, right? You don’t need to bend your brain or pay money to set up a blog. Facebook is free.

You can set up a Facebook page, and that operates as your de facto blog. You can create groups to promote your self-publishing efforts. Facebook can be very useful, and again… it’s free.

That’s true, but there are challenges.

I wrote about building your business on someone else’s property in this post on blogging dangerously:

That’s the lesson to take away from all those freebie blogging platforms which seem amazing, but over which you have zero control, and which are — POOF — gone. Your blog is just a single decision away from closing — a decision which is made by someone else.

Am I recommending that you leave Medium, Blogger, WordPress.com and other “free” platforms? No, I’m not. If you don’t have the time to deal with your own web hosting so you can blog using WordPress or Squarespace on your own website, it’s a decision you make.

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