Writing

Every novelist is told by his agent to blog, do social media, etc., etc. If you're productive enough and it doesn't slow down your actual novel writing, then maybe that's fine. But the most important thing of all is to write the next book and the next and the next.

I used to blog fairly regularly until i realized it was eating into my productivity. Now I hardly post to it at all and it's a huge relief. Most novelists I know who started blogging eventually let their blogs die away because they were devoting too much energy to blogging and not enough to their primary writing.

I don't think blogging actually sells books --certainly not novels. What does matter in the long run is your backlist and the real estate you take up in a bookstore.