I recently posted a meme of an old guy saying Life is short, so spend as much time as possible arguing online with strangers. Yeah. Let’s just not do that, good people, right?

One thing I’d add is being consistent – many authors have one name for their website, then another in their blog, then yet another in their email ID – and often they don’t reflect their pen name. It’s something that was pointed out to me once – make it easy for people to find, recognise and follow you! And yes, I changed the name of my website accordingly *sigh* :D.

It’s also difficult to know how to be interesting or if it’s working! I like to follow authors who are are easy to read online as well – just brief news, reference to interesting articles (not just theirs), some chat about them and what they’re working on, a wry comment now and then. And I like to see that they support fellow authors too.

Thanks for the guidance.

Also, I see lots of authors who take very bold stances on lots of mainstream issues: Rachel Held Evans, Sarah Bessey, Shauna Niequist, etc. and it doesn’t seem to hurt then.

I actually like to know where people stand, and I would prefer to read someone who took a passionate stand on a topic than would to read happy, “plastic” posts.