Blood & Rhetoric

Creepy masked chick? Check!

Dead tree? Check!

Graveyard? Check!

Crows? Check! Check! Check!

Now to tweak and update the small stuff.

Avoid blogs about blogging like the plague.

Okay, let me say that once more with less drama:

Blogs about blogging are very helpful up to a point. They’re useful when it comes to introducing you to blogs, blog features, advertising, latest blog thingies, and reporting on the latest breaking news. Now the preceeding information can be presented in a few articles. Few being realtive, as there’s always news to report. However, visit one of these blogging sites such as ProBlogger and along with all their useful information, you’re also treated to numerous articles written by “friend” blogs that essentially reiterate the exact same information; following the formula they’ve been taught for the sheer desire to increase their own traffic.

Boring. And transparent.

I’m not going to read another “Avoid the BIGGEST Blogging Mistake!” or “13 Ways To Increase Traffic!” articles anymore. Half of the information presented in these articles are common sense, 45 percent is devoted to repeating what’s already been said, and 5 percent actually gives you something new and interesting.

And if you really need a list reminding you that checking your spelling and grammar are vital, you’re a fucking moron to begin with.

And so another blog slides out of the bloody womb of obscurity and screams its first futile cries of life. And so here I am. And maybe you too.  My name is Jana Lubina; I live in Toronto, Canada. Freelance copywriting (mostly) pays my bills, but the strung-out hopes and dreams of having said bills paid by my bestselling novels, is the ultimate goal.  I’m currently writing my first novel. I write mostly fantasy. I’m hoping to stick this novel thing through. And I’m hoping the end-product will not suck donkey balls. 

What this blog will be:

• Me and my thoughts on the writing process.

• Reviews of books.

• Uh… other stuff.

 What this blog will not be:

• Scathing literary criticism.

• Whiny.

• Written in that bizzare netspeak lingo people of my generation seem overly fond of using.