“I protect my creative energy. I carefully manage my time to ensure the most creative and critical tasks are done in the mornings (when I work best) and free of distractions from family or meetings. I construct my daily to-do list to have pockets of juggling and coordination, and pockets of free space. I make …
It’s Day 2 of posting using an iPad 2, and today I am trying out the Blogsy iPad app. I’ll get to what I think of it (so far, anyway) below, but, first, here’s what my great aunt Hattie was up to 79 years ago today: November 10, 1932, Thursday: Cloudy, cold N.W. wind quite …
Continuing this month’s theme of the need to defrag, I’d like to get other writers’ thoughts on how you handle Facebook. Do you use Facebook as part of your “writing life,” and, if so, how? If not, why not? Fan page? Profile page only? Do you use lists to notify selected friends about blog posts? …
Author Laura Munson wrote a very interesting blog post recently about platforms: All-too-quickly the honeymoon is over. Because I learn that there is no Platform band wagon. You have to build it brick by brick and it takes time. Lots of time. A lot like writing a novel. But there isn’t really time to write …
I am still trying to wrap my head around social media, working to figure out the most comfortable combination, fit, level of involvement, boundaries. I use the word “comfortable” deliberately. For writers or anyone else for whom social media is part personal and part professional, the ever increasing social media options—from Twitter to LinkedIn, Goodreads …