How I Blog is a regular feature on All Things Urban Fantasy where I share my tips, tricks, methods, and secrets to book blogging. You can read all the previous How I Blog posts HERE.
Review Formats
I was going to make up a little How to Review video (using CamStudio) for ATUF’s newest reviewer (hi Julia!) when she was ready to start formatting and posting her own reviews directly and thought I would go a head and turn it into a How I Blog.What you’ll need to format reviews the way ATUF does:
- Live Writer Plug-ins
I have templates set up for every regular post that I do on ATUF. They are huge time savers and help keep my posts consistent. The one I’m currently using has been revised many times, but the basic info (and where I find it) has stayed the same. I’ll probably do a similar vlog tutorial for the plug-ins I use in a future How I Blog post (if that would be helpful?), but in the meantime, here is how I format my reviews:
*NOTE* For this tutorial, I formatted a review for AFTERLIGHT by Elle Jasper. In the tutorial I incorrectly listed the series as Dark Chronicles instead of Dark Ink Chronicles). My review will be up tomorrow.
Fantastic Abigail, thanks for all the tips and the step by step tutorial, it was great to see how you do it. I love these How I Blog posts of yours they are always so helpful and informative, thanks again! :-)
ReplyDeleteStella - I'm glad they are helpful. I hope you'll give Live Writer a try if you haven't yet :)
ReplyDeleteHi, this video is very useful but I've a question for you(a stupid one): how do you add plug-in to your windows live writer?
ReplyDeleteYuko86 - Easypeasey.
ReplyDelete1. Just click on the Insert tab of Live Writer
2. Click on Add plug-in next to the tiny blue puzzle piece.
3. Download the ones you want and restart Live Writer.
4. Click Plug-in options underneath Add plug-ins
5. enable the plug-ins you downloaded. That's it :)
When I click add plug-in it opens this page
ReplyDeletehttp://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?c=0&bt=9&pl=8&st=5
where there's write that there aren't plug in :(:(:(
Maybe it's because I'm italian!?
Yuko86- That could be it. When I open the link I get a list of all the available plug-ins.
ReplyDeleteAny other non US bloggers having trouble?