John Baker’s Blog

This is the last post in this series. Thank you to everyone who participated, posters and commentors alike.
1. Why do you blog?
I spend most of my time writing. My first love is the novel and faced with a novel to write I find myself committed to a single project for months or years. Blogging has [...]

1. Why do you blog?
For me, a fit of pique is always a wonderful motivator, and that’s what got me started as a blogger: annoyance at something I had read. But that’s not sufficient motive in the long run. What keeps me going is the opportunity to share my enthusiasms. I see that as the [...]

1 Why do you blog?
Originally to publicise my novel A Half Life Of One. Six months on it’s much more complex. I guess I’ve become part of a loose association of unpublished fellow writers, a sort of self-help club. But it’s more than that too. Blogging is a chance [...]

1. Why do you blog?
Because I want to be immortal. Maybe in the waning years of my life I would want to indulge in my thoughts and preoccupations over those hidden periods in my life. It’s like a diary, but a diary that I can open any time, anywhere and read.
2. Which author and/or book [...]