In the September issue of Writer’s Digest, Sherman Alexie says:

Every word on your blog is a word not in your book.

As someone who has been blogging for a few years, that’s conflicting advice. I was encouraged by a friend to start a blog as a way to work on my writing skills. So, I started blogging as a way to discipline myself to write every day. Six years later I have several working or completed manuscripts and no books. Mr. Alexie may have a point. He also offers this:

Don’t Google search yourself.