On one of the writing lists I’m on, there’s a great discussion right now about whether there’s a meaningful market for books on blogging, and there are two main categories of responses. One is “What’s a blog? Isn’t that just a diary? Why would someone need a book on how to write a diary?” and the other camp is represented by “maybe I’d buy a book if the author had a unique perspective on what to do with blogs, but it sure doesn’t seem like a very big market.”

Here are my two cents on this subject: books about blogging are going to be boring, just another subset of books about writing (the vast majority of which seem to miss what I view as the essence of learning how to write, which is to write. Peter Elbow captures this in his great book Writing Without Teachers).

To me, though, blogging is just a tool. What’s important is that…

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