My Cryonite Cove blog for the online space game Pirate Galaxy is almost two months old now, and I'm having a great time running it. This is important as that was key to my decision to start it, as I explained in Writing For Fun.

So far the advertising cash hasn't started to flow yet but I'm still in the early days. I kept Cryonite Cove quiet at the start so that I would have time to build up a body of posts that would be worth reading. I also spent time fine-tuning the design and layout. I'm confident enough now to start inviting people to visit.

I've joined the official forum for the game and posted about the blog which generated some return visitors. It's also in my forum signature so I need to start posting there more often. There are lots of other avenues to explore so it's time to get more aggressive in attracting attention. I'll have to ask a certain seven-year-old for tips.

One drawback has been that over the last two months I've spent less time posting here. However I consider Cryonite Cove to be actually writing, rather than writing about writing, so the time was well spent. Now I'm in my stride I'll be posting here more often. Plus the Autumn Sci-Fi extravaganza is upon us again so I'll have lots of genre telly to rave about, as long as I can stop watching it for long enough.