Yesterday, I spent an hour or so making some small tweaks to the theme on Writer’s Round-About. This preparation was stage two in the collaborative blogging project idea I shared on Tuesday. Stage one was gathering your valuable feedback and being pleasantly surprised by the overwhelmingly positive response to this idea.
Now on WRA, each individual post highlights the author with their name, bio, gravatar, and website link in the sidebar. Each post also has a by-line that links to the website listed in the author’s user profile.
Want to get involved in our collaborative blogging project? It’s very easy to get started!
- First, Register Your Account.
- Fill In Your Profile Details.
- Contact me!
- Write your content.
You’ll see the Wordpress meta options in the footer of every page on Writer’s Round-About. WRA has always allowed users to register on the blog as subscribers and we will continue to do that. You can also use the links in the footer to log into your account at any time.
Just registering your account is not quite enough to earn your promotion from subscriber to contributor. Next, you need to fill in your first, last, and display name, a website URL, and a short bio. Your bio can include one other link (such as a link to your contact details) and up to three paragraphs.
Once you’re happy with the details in your profile contact me either directly via email or with the contact form and let me know you would like to be a contributor. I’ll confirm your details and quickly preview your writing before deciding to promote you to contributor.
Once you’ve been accepted, write your content. You can save as many articles as you like in your drafts. Once you are happy with a post, set it for review. I will then review your post, add any SEO or HTML tweaks to maximize it’s web effectiveness, and schedule the content to autopost.
Unfortunately, not everyone will be promoted to contributor. Writer’s Round-About has always been, first and foremost, about what readers want. I believe our readers deserve quality and I will only accept skilled writers as contributors. We want to maintain the standard of excellence for which WRA has become know and respected.
Please also remember that Writer’s Round-About is a niche blog. We have a relatively broad niche that includes all writing genres and skill, web specific content and writing, work-at-home or freelancing, and web design and technology. We do not have a category for cats (unless you can find a way to tie the topic to writing like I did with the Dog Train Your Writing Skills series) or politics.
Beyond those two specific ‘rules’ I like to give writers a great deal of freedom. Take chances and experiment. Do what works for you. Explore your experiences and harvest from the compost of your life, your successes, your failures, and those of the people around you.
Finally, feel free to contact me at any time for any reason. I am always happy to help fellow writers, hear about special events, answer any questions you might have, review writing related products, and meet new friends in our industry.
