Have
I mentioned before that writing is a lonely business?
Of
course I have. So to avoid feeling isolated us writers have to find
ways to make it less so. One of the easiest I've discovered, apart
from walking away from my laptop and leaving the house, is social
media. It's a good way to meet other writers and like minded people.
Even
though I've been on Facebook for quite some time I've only really
been posting more regularly since I set up my author page. And since
then I've discovered there are a wealth of Indie authors out
there beavering away on their lonesome from dawn till dusk. And
others from dusk till dawn.
And I thought that rather than hide away
in our ivory towers, we should band together and conquer the world.
Mmmm – a bit of my megalomania creeping to the fore there. Let's
move on shall we.
In
a bid to become even more social media savvy I signed on to a Twitter
workshop at SAF with Emily Benet at the beginning of April.
As ever with Emily's workshops I came away chomping at the bit to give it a try even though I still felt a bit flummoxed by it all and wished the workshop had run for at least another hour.
So, it's about two months into the whole start of my Twitter experience and the jury is still out. My favourite medium at present remains facebook, primarily because I feel that Twitter works best if you're tweeting more often than I currently have time to. And being a semi Luddite, I don't have internet on my phone so am relying on tweeting from my laptop or Kindle when I'm at home. Since I'm an itinerant tutor I'm not home an awful lot.
I'm
also working on my haiku skills so that I can squeeze all my thoughts
into those 140 characters. So you never know, I might still blaze a
trail through Twitter.
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