This
is where I’m at with the Social media craziness of an author’s life!
I know what I have to do, just can't navigate the treacherous path to get there.
It feels like this trying to figure out what to move to get it to all line up.
This is what I see in my mind every time I have to plan my social media calendar.
As
writers we NEED to write, not ‘want’ or ‘should’ but NEED! The characters and ideas just keep coming and
for me if I’m not writing I feel like I’m in a funk I’ll never climb out of. I’m
my happiest when I’m lost in writing my next book.
Yet,
if we authors don’t promote and ‘get out there’ we will starve because no one knows
about our books.
I
have fallen behind on so many deadlines because I have become hyper focused on
the ‘promoting’ side of it. It will suck you in and consume hours of your
writing time.
I’ve
tried seminars, courses, books to try and figure out how to do this, in the
least number of steps as possible.
For
the next few weeks I’m going to climb into HOW to do this without losing my
sanity and ALL my writing time. IF I can get it down to say, Sunday mornings I
get all my scheduling done for social media (the basics, obviously not the
daily checking with my morning coffee or those ‘you have to see this’ pics and
posts that randomly pop up in life in real time), I will be a MUCH happier, LESS
stressful version of me.
Btw
I’m open to suggestions for successful plans used by other authors. A-U-T-H-O-R-S
… NOT a media promotional company that just wants HUGE $ amount to ‘do it for
me’ or ‘teach me how’.
(**rubics
cube pic I borrowed from cubosweb.com - collage pic I borrowed from elifeisamaze.wordpress.com
pac-man media pic I borrowed from society6.com – I do not own the rights to any
of these pics, but needed them because they illustrate where I am with the
social media maze of an author’s life!)
Shameless self-promotion
space:
Jacqueline
Paige
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J.Risk
Twitter: @JacqPaige
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