A Cross-blogging event!
Do you have a blog? If you do, probably you’d be interested in a casual cross-blogging thing.
The gig is this: sometime in February, I do a guest post in your blog, and you do a blog post in mine.
Why? Well, because it’s fun, and we would both benefit from that.
What can I offer? A guest post on any of questions you might ask me about themes I know something about (writing, some marketing, raising kids, divination, living in Latvia) or know nothing about but that doesn’t stop me from expresssing my opinion (almost anything else).
What makes you eligible? Having a blog in a language I understand (including Latvian and Russian). I don’t care if I barely know who you are. I don’t care if the blog is obscure or private, or unrelated to things I know something about.
What to do? Drop a comment that you’re willing to do this, with a link to your blog. Noting what would you be interested in or what you might blog about over here helps, but isn’t required. If you’re normally writing in Latvian or Russian, it’s fine, I’ll just try to provide an English translation.
How will I choose a guest-blogger (provided that I get more than one request)? I guess it will be some sort of random decision, based on whatever I want to base it on. At any rate, if I don’t choose you, it won’t be personal. And even if I don’t choose you at the present time, I’ll remember you later if this thing goes well.
Are you in?
…tiptoe…
(whispers) hi Ieva… I know you would write something interesting on anyone’s blog… but of all the things I could write about, I can find ten dozen others who could do it better and in more depth or from greater lived experience… and it turns out that of the few things I know anything about, the one thing I could write about is simply *my life* – and that’s better left over in my blog so the navel-gazing can be contained.
speaking for myself, my inability to seize your offer only arises out of certainty that I’d neither know what nor how to write so your readers would be interested… not because I think your guest-post wouldn’t be worth it.
*ignores shyness and reluctation*
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it’s a deal, then. Could you drop me an e-mail? ieva [dot] melgalve [at] gmail? or HTRYN workshop inner mail would do fine too. (I’m too lazy to hunt for your username
oh, you’re sneaky!
damn, I walked right into that one, didn’t I? How was I supposed to know it was a booby-trapped comment box
email coming shortly. I am such a sucker.