Just wondering how many of you have blogs and what blogging websites you use?
We have one on blogspot (http://ladma.blogspot.com/) but don't really feel like we get the most out of it. How do people publicise and use their blogs? Also, how can you subscribe and link to other blogs?
No offence to any writers who blog on this forum, but the ones I've read (and I've read some of the links) seem monumentally tedious and self-obsessed.
Apart from mine, which is ace.
I think you're probably right. But check out ours....us, us, us
I also think it's good to hone your craft and, like Richard Herring says, he uses his to combat writer's block.
I'm really talking about the people on here who've had one sketch on Tilt and now bore us to death with talk of the film scripts they're "developing"... Where is ContainsNuts? 
Quote: chipolata @ July 23 2008, 3:33 PM BSTI'm really talking about the people on here who've had one sketch on Tilt and now bore us to death with talk of the film scripts they're "developing"... Where is ContainsNuts?
I take your point. I think when it comes to blogs, they should be entertaining and self contained excerpts (either interesting or funny). Something too self-obsessed is tedious.
I started to write a fictional blog to spark any ideas and just mess about with, got bored though lol.
Actually, having critiscised them, I can see their use as a writing exercise. I guess I just haven't read a terribly entertaining one yet. Except ones by prostitutes. They're quite fun.
Quote: Leevil @ July 23 2008, 3:37 PM BSTI started to write a fictional blog to spark any ideas and just mess about with, got bored though lol.
After one entry. ONE. Lightweight.
Quote: Graham Bandage @ July 23 2008, 3:42 PM BSTAfter one entry. ONE. Lightweight.
Hmmm - I notice you've posted 100 words in the last 15 days. Made me chuckle though.
People scouting for readers for their blogs rub me up the wrong way for some reason - it seems arrogant somehow - I don't even know you, why should I care or want to read about your life?
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/
Ken Levine, writer on Cheers and The Simpsons. One of the old-school, lemmee tell you about my agent, grizzled old LA comedy-writing warhorses. Always great and he often does 'joke contests' on there, giving you a chance to impress someone who's written dialogue for Milhouse.
Phill Barron's, obviously *cough*.
And this, if you're a fan of writer's jargon like 'the bicycle joke' 'hanging a lantern on it' and 'placeholder' (as referenced in Arrested Development: 'I'll ruin your bicycle like a placeholder')
p://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/04/writing-jargon-preservation.html
EDIT: (that blog is confusingly designed but there are 4 pages of jargon preservation, I found it easiest to find use the search function as there's no direct link. Read the user comments too, lots of people adding their own).
James Henry (Green Wing), James Moran & Andrew Collins's are good ones.
http://crustynomad.wordpress.com - Crusty Nomad is my occasionally updated blog of randomness. It has articles, reviews, sport, news, comment. Bit of a mixed bag really.
The funny stuff has got a bit buried but probably the biggest laugh is the massive photo of me on every page.
Quote: Griff @ July 23 2008, 4:09 PM BSTThat writing jargon blog post is fantastic.
I must admit I'm obsessed with this sort of thing, like the mythical placeholder substance that Buffy writers use before they can think of a better name: "phlebotinum".
As in "you can't use that gun in here, those barrels are full of phlebotinum!" or "How come Kirk can breathe on that planet?" "The atmosphere is 10% phlebotinum, or something"
there's loads more here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes
Graham Linehan is the master of hanging a lantern off a joke. "Can you imagine how funny it would have been if it had been an abandoned baby? We'd have had real laughs getting into all sorts of scrapes."