Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Third Writers’ Platform Building Campaign

Rachael Harrie has put together another fantastic campaign: Third Writers’ Platform Building Campaign. It’s a great way to make real connections with like-minded people. I took part in one earlier in the year and I met so many more new bloggers, struggling writers, published authors.

The campaign runs from August 22nd until October 31st. The list closes on August 31st, so you have a week to sign up.

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The Write Advice is a fantastic new Facebook community page organised by Laura Barnes. It is designed to bring together a collection of bloggers who offer great writing advice.
“I hope for this to be an excellent source for beginning writers, or beginning writer researchers, a sort-of one-stop-shop.”
It’s worth checking out.

What online initiatives or sites have given you support as a writer?Are you signing up to the campaign?

58 comments:

Christine Rains said...

I've signed up for the campaign. I'm excited and a little nervous, but I've heard great things about the last one.

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

If I wasn't just so overwhelmed now! Think I have a handle on what's going to happen with the Insecure Writer's Support group though.
And Lynda, thank you so much for featuring my next book! Wow, so awesome to come here and see it.

Old Kitty said...

I hope all those campaigning and joining up have lots of fun and enjoy themselves!!! Go forth and enjoy your platform building!! Yay!

Take care
x

Luanne G. Smith said...

Thanks for the info. Might have to check it out.

DEZMOND said...

love the button for PLATFORM BUILDING CAMPAIGNER :)

Susan Gourley/Kelley said...

I'm not signing up for this one but I'm going to watch and cheer for all you who did and see how it all works. Good luck.

Alessa Hinlo said...

Hi! Fellow campaigner here. I'm a newbie though. ^^;

Suze said...

I have given it a lot of thought and I am not signing up for the campaign at this time.

I really need to focus less on online media and more on writing offline this fall.

-S

Carrie Butler said...

Yay! I'm so excited about the campaign! :)

Bluestocking said...

I'm in the sf campagin group -- looking forward to getting to know you!

Unknown said...

This sounds like such a cool idea.

Unknown said...

Am signed up and grouped with you ^_^ I look forward to getting to know you as things settle down a bit.

Liz A. said...

Yep, I signed up for the campaign. It should be fun.

Trisha said...

Glad to see you signed up too Lynda! :)

Sarah Tokeley said...

I've signed up, and this is my first one. I'm excited, but I was nervous as well. I was so pleased to see you and a few others in my group. It felt like seeing old friends in a new class :) Of course, now I've been round all the other blogs I'm wondering what I was ever nervous about!

Nas said...

Hi Lynda,

All the best! I look forward to the competition posts!

Nas said...

Hi Lynda,

All the best! I look forward to the competition posts!

Anonymous said...

Happy Campaigning!!! xx

Sommer Leigh said...

We're in the same YA campaigner group! I'm so excited, this is going to be a great couple of months!

Aldrea Alien said...

I've only just noticed, but it seems we've been double-grouped. ^_^

Anonymous said...

I'm thinking about signing up. I tend to hesitate signing up for these things, because I worry I won't blog enough to participate or that I'll miss important dates.

Abhishek said...

Came here from the Platform Building Campaign!!


Cool Blog!!

with warm regards
Another Author

Isis Rushdan said...

Happy to campaign with you.

Anonymous said...

I'm already loving the campaign...:)

Deborah Walker said...

I've signed up. I had so much fun on the last one. Onwards.

Rachael Harrie said...

Hey Lynda, woot, welcome back on board the Campaign. It's going to be a blast. :D

Hugs,

Rach

Unknown said...

I haven't decided about the campaign yet...

But, I will check out The Write Advice.

Matt Larkin said...

Joined the Campaign yesterday. Look forward to working with you.

Carol Riggs said...

I'm busy and not doing this campaign, but I certainly enjoyed the last one, and meeting new writers! I like Janice Hardy's The Other Side of the Story blog. VERY informative stuff about nitty-gritty how-to's of writing a novel.

Jill W. said...

Hi Lynda,

Joined the campaign and figured I'd swing by to say hi! :-)

This is gonna be fun!

Anonymous said...

Hello fellow Fantasy Campaigner! Excited to get to know you through the blogosphere! :)

Mark said...

Very cool, thanks for the heads up and info:)

Crystal said...

Oooh, definitely going to check out The Write Advice! Thanks for the info!!

Gwen Gardner said...

Lynda - just stopping by from the campaign group - trying to follow you but the link was broken - I'll try again - awesome blog!

Cynthia Chapman Willis said...

I am so tempted to sign up for this, but time is such an issue right now. Still considering. . .

Angela Perry said...

In the campaign :) Nice to meet you! I love your blog header. It's gorgeous.

Stacy S. Jensen said...

I signed up for the campaign. I've already met a lot of nice folks. Slowly making my way through the list of participants.
The Writer Unboxed blog has helped me a lot. I signed up for the FB group and have enjoyed the folks there and the discussion about craft, publishing and writerly things.

Lynda R Young as Elle Cardy said...

WELCOME to all the newcomers and Campaigners. It's fantastic to see you all here and I appreciate every comment. Looking forward to getting to know more writers.

Christine, the last one was brilliant.

Alex, ha, I've been meaning to put it up for some time now and only recently got the chance to get some basic maintenance done. I'm so looking forward to the release of CassaFire.

Old Kitty, verily

Dezzy, shame I can't lay claim to it. It was designed by JYS at Writerly Pensheep.

Suze, I fully support your decision. First and foremost, it's important to write.

Sarah, oddly enough I can relate to that nervousness. Hehehe.

Lynda R Young as Elle Cardy said...

Aldrea, that's because we are special ;)

Medeia, sign up! It's so worth it. You won't regret it and you don't have to take part in the challenges if you don't want to.

Rachael, thanks again for organising this marvellous campaign.

Clarissa, It's up to you, but from my experience last time, it was so worth it.

Carol, thanks for the tip!

Lady, yep, I'm noticing that as well. I think Blogger is struggling. I've found if you refresh the page it usually works.

Cynthia, I have even less time than I did last time, but I didn't want to miss out.

Angela, Thanks. The header was designed and created by Dezmond at HollywoodSpy.

Stacy, I'll have to check out that blog. Thanks.

Michael McDuffee said...

Hi there! I'm new to the campaign trail. Nice to meet you - I'm a fellow fantasy grouper.

T.B. McKenzie said...

Am I doing this right?

Jeff King said...

I do not belong to a group on or offline… I use my blog to work out some issues. One day I might progress to partners or a critic group, but for now I am happy with my station.

Thx for your support.

cleemckenzie said...

I jumped on board this time. So many new people to meet. How wonderful that is.

Elizabeth Mueller said...

It sounds like a funtastic thing to do! I've been wondering about it. I should look into it and see if I "qualify". :)




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YA Paranormal Romance, Darkspell coming fall of 2011!

Lynda R Young as Elle Cardy said...

Another welcome to all the great campaigners and new followers :)

Jeff, any time.

Elizabeth, funtastic is such a cool word ;)

alberta ross said...

hi got here - think I joined to many groups!! did the last campaign had such fun met such great people couldn't resist this one

M Pax said...

I have other things to focus on right now, so will be hanging back on this one.

I found goodreads useful. And I just got involved with best seller bound.

Jules said...

Hello!

I'm another campaigner and we're in the post-apocalyptic group together :D

I'm slowly making my way around everyone!

I'm a new follower :D

http://thegreatthegoodandthebad.blogspot.com/

Lauren F. Boyd said...

Hey, Lynda! It's great to meet you as a fellow writer and Campaigner!

Katharina Gerlach said...

Hello from another campaigner. Glad to meet you.

Anonymous said...

Hi from Oregon! Should be fun campaigning together.

F.E. Sewell said...

Just popping by to say hello to a fellow campaigner. Also, I love your blog! Can't wait to read more!

Sarah Ketley said...

Just stopping by to say hello.

Still have all your links in my reader from last time :-)

Just letting you know that my blog has changed from the linky list entry. (sorry) Still Precocious scribe, just now on WP.


Please stop by and update your reader ...blah blah...

http://www.sarahketleyauthor.com/

many thanks,

looking forward to another fun month!

sarah

Debbie said...

Hi Lynda. This is my first time in joining the campaign and liking it so far. I'm in a number of different groups, which can be quite daunting, but I aim to get around to everyone. You're in my Aussie/NZ group. I'm looking forward to seeing more of you during the campaign.

Shelley Koon said...

Just a heads up, I have set up a Google Reader with all of Dystopian Group 21 in it to help organize all of our . Link is:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F08181744977128699830%2Flabel%2FDystopian%20Group%2021

Michael McDuffee said...

Fellow campaigner in the fantasy group here. Glad to meet you. Your blog is fantastic - and epic in coverage. Looking forward to reading more.

Lynda R Young as Elle Cardy said...

Welcome to all the campaigners and all the new followers. It's fantastic to meet you all :)

Roger Eschbacher said...

Hi Lynda! I'm a fellow Campaigner. Your look looks very interesting. I'm looking forward to exploring it.