I decided to do a search for writers blogs and was pleasantly surprised that I actually found a few. When I started this site there were very few writers using blogs as a medium for self-expression or on their writing journey. Actually, I really don’t know if that’s true. What I do know is that they were very hard to find if they were out there. I did find a free resource, Blog for Writers and posted about it in 2003. Not much has changed on that site.

But apparently there have been some big changes with writers now blogging about their writing process and their lives. That excites me since I believe in this medium. So, I’ve decided to find one writers blog a month (maybe more often) and give it a critique. No, I’m not going to critique their writing, just their blogs. I haven’t yet decided what the parameters for the critique will be. I thought about critiquing their blogs design and how well it expresses who they are but that may not be a good way to approach it. The content is what will make it worth visiting or not. I’m still working it out in my mind and may just allow a trial and error approach to this little experiment.

My first writers blog critique is Boofany’s Blog

The author’s tag line reads - On writing, life and the efforts of a woman determined to be published.

The tag line peaked my interest right away. The word, determined, says a lot about who the author is as a writer and probably as a person. She doesn’t reveal her name, just refers to herself as Boofany’s Blog. This is where she might loose some credibility as a writer. Why not use your name? She has her photo up, why not claim ownership with a real-life name? I mean, writers usually want exposure, right? I understand that many people have some fear about identity theft but if you are doing business online or writing about your business, you are not as anonymous as you’d like to think you are, regardless of what name you might choose to use.

This writers blog was created in December, 2004 and averages about 2 posts a month. There hasn’t been a post made since June. That’s unfortunate since any readers she may have acquired, will loose interests. I read somewhere that in order to have a successful blog you should average 3 posts a day. I was stunned! 3 posts a day? Who has time for that? But I do think 1 post a day would be good, even though I don’t do that myself. With just one post a week you should be able to keep your readers coming back but more is always better.

The bulk of her posts are on marketing and worth the time it takes to read them. It’s too bad that she hasn’t realized that her blog could be viewed as a marketing tool for her writing. She isn’t using it to further her aspirations in becoming a published author. I’ll give it one star out of five and hope that the author will realize her blogs potential and continues to write about her writing process.