In earlier days, writers wrote. They wrote novels and short stories and plays and waited for the publishers to promote them. With dwindling budgets and the escalating networking advantages of technology, a lot of the promotion has fallen to the writers. And predictably, writers are banding together to support each other. One such effort is by writer Rachel Harrie.
What is the Campaign?
Basically, the Campaign is a way to link those of us in the writing community together with the aim of helping to build our online platforms. The Campaigners are all bloggers in a similar position, who genuinely want to pay it forward, make connections and friends within the writing community, and help build each others’ online platforms while at the same time building theirs.
I originally referred to my Writers’ Platform-Building Campaigns as “Crusades”, but I’ve recently changed that name for reasons including this one. So we’ll be referring to ourselves as Campaigners rather than Crusaders from now on (and I hope you can all get behind the new name as strongly as you did behind the original one).
In 2010 we had 55 people take part, many of whom have become great blogging friends. We saw our followers skyrocket and the comments on our posts increase, and had fun taking part in the Challenges as well (kartofflepuffer anyone???).
In February 2011, we had 217 people take part before I closed the List, and many more who wanted to join. I made so many wonderful friends, and heard of some awesome connections and friendships being made between other writers. The new Group concept worked very well, and we saw Group interviews, get-to-know-you sessions, a Choose Your Own Adventure bloghop, among other things. The Challenges were again heaps of fun – I think we’ll all remember the goldfish bowl flash fiction for a long time! And the Show Not Tell Challenge in April (linked with Arlee Bird’s A-Z Challenge) was a ball of fun too!
I can’t wait to see what fun comes out of this Third Campaign!
As the Campaign kicks off, you’ll have the names and blog addresses of the Campaigners on my List of Campaigners page (above), so you can keep in touch with the other Campaigners. That way youโll have a list of bloggers in the same position as you, who genuinely want to help you succeed. And you’ll be able to meet those who have the most in common with you. You can visit their blogs and other places they haunt, follow along, leave comments galore, and share your highs and lows as you journey through the blogosphere and build your online platform. And they’ll be doing the same for you.
Length of the Campaign
This Campaign will run from August 22nd to October 31st. I’ll be closing the List of Campaigners on August 31st, so join up before then if you want to come on board!
I urge you to join in the campaign, because the more support we give and get, the better it is for us writers, in terms of working on our writing, querying, promoting, publishing and what have you. Find the chatter on this campaign at #writecampaign on twitter.
P.S: If you’re in the same groups as me, Literary, Short stories or horror, please check if you’re on my sidebar in the list of campaigners. If not, please give me a virtual poke, and I’ll add you ๐
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In other news, ace storyteller and published author Stuart Nager would display his flash fiction chops at Daily (w)rite today. Hop across and tell us what you think of his work.
Tomorrow, I’ll feature the second part of the Spark Blogfest, instead of Friday revisions.
And on Saturday at Daily (w)rite I’ll host Patricia Lynne, whose novel Being Human has been recently published to some acclaim. Please visit her post and give her some comment love!
Just dropping by to say "hey" to a fellow campaigner.
Hi, I am a fellow campaigner, just dropping in to say 'Hi'.
I am in the same group as you – literary fiction 1 (group 36). Look forward to getting to know you through the campaign.
Howdy there, stopping by on the campaign rounds! ๐
I love your blog name, it's so unique!
Can't wait to get to know you!
Hey, I'm in your horror campaign group. Iโm so inspired by seeing your ebook of flash fiction pieces. I donโt know if youโve ever heard of the contests NYC Midnight does where they assign writers a genre, a location, and an object to include and then give them 48 hours to write a 1000 word story. Itโs a complete rush, but I now have a stack of stories Iโm really not sure what to do with, so Iโm definitely going to give your ebook a look and see if that approach might work for me.
just popping in to say hi to fellow short story campaigner – hope we all have fun here
Welcome, fellow campaigners, and I hope to become a regular visitor to all your blogs!!
Nice to meet you! Loved your blog colors and the picture! Hope you are enjoying the campaign;-)
Hello! Fellow campaigner here from the horror group just stopping by, I'm attempting to get round everyone!
I look forward to getting to know you and your blog better.
I'm a new follower! ๐
http://thegreatthegoodandthebad.blogspot.com/
I'm here and enjoying it a lot. I see some old friends and find new ones each time I visit the list.
Love your "yellow" blog. It makes me smile.
I joined the campaign too!
Hi there. I'm in the Campaign with you. Good to meet you!
Thanks everyone for your kind comments. I'm off to follow back all my fellow-campaigners!
Sheri, you can follow this blog also through Google connect. You will find the icon for iton the left sidebar….thanks ๐
Fellow campaigner stopping by to say hi! I'd like to follow but I keep having trouble joining through your "Networked Blogs" gadget. It won't let me follow. (?) I'll check back again later and see if it works then. Thanks for visitng my blog.
Hi Damyanti!! Nice to meet you! I'm following you from Of Thoughts and Words. I am really looking forward to this campaign.
I'm looking forward to this Campaign! ๐
I hope to join this campaign. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for visiting my blog, I've joined the campaign as well for the first time ๐
– andrea
I agree.
very nice blog. I added your link in to my blog. Kindly add mine also. thanks for sharing