Keeping your hand in
I'm on too many writing sites. As I have said before, I maintain a
separate pen name, as well as my real one.
I'm going through a bad and a good patch right now. As myself, I'm writing nothing. That, of course, is bad. But as my evil twin, I've never known such a fruitful period, coming towards the close of my twin's first novel and am deep in to the birth of another. I know I should finish one first, but I started a short story and it is taking on epic proportions. That's good, right?
The bad part of that is it means I'm not writing any new short stories, and that means that I'm not submitting anything new to magazines, etc., or even websites. I've learned that it is important to stay visible on writers sites just to keep people coming back to you. Yes, review them occasionally, too, but if you don't have anything for them to reciprocate, you are losing out.
I'm trying to be more active on my blog, but that is just talking about writing - basically, navel-gazing. And then there is Twitter. What does one tweet about to keep people coming back when you aren't doing anything, other than going back and rewriting or editing? I haven't even bothered with a Twitter account yet for that reason. Of course, the editing is falling behind because I'm too busy writing as my evil twin. It's a never-ending cycle.
I need to restore discipline without jeopardizing my creativity. How?
I'm going through a bad and a good patch right now. As myself, I'm writing nothing. That, of course, is bad. But as my evil twin, I've never known such a fruitful period, coming towards the close of my twin's first novel and am deep in to the birth of another. I know I should finish one first, but I started a short story and it is taking on epic proportions. That's good, right?
The bad part of that is it means I'm not writing any new short stories, and that means that I'm not submitting anything new to magazines, etc., or even websites. I've learned that it is important to stay visible on writers sites just to keep people coming back to you. Yes, review them occasionally, too, but if you don't have anything for them to reciprocate, you are losing out.
I'm trying to be more active on my blog, but that is just talking about writing - basically, navel-gazing. And then there is Twitter. What does one tweet about to keep people coming back when you aren't doing anything, other than going back and rewriting or editing? I haven't even bothered with a Twitter account yet for that reason. Of course, the editing is falling behind because I'm too busy writing as my evil twin. It's a never-ending cycle.
I need to restore discipline without jeopardizing my creativity. How?
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I think that with twitter, it is a matter of finding an angle. I don't think people really want to hear "woke up, ate breakfast" all the time. You have to draw a following, perhaps talk about your writing or reading, or something that interests you. I'm interested in too many things, so it would be difficult to focus my tweets to a specific readership. Yes, I should tweet about my writing, but my evil twin is consuming all my writing time write now, and I can't tweet about that person's work.
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