I'm back to writing, sitting at the desk, pad in front of me, pen in hand.
The only thing lacking, an idea.
It's 9:03 am, too early to start on a six-pack.
To be honest, the last thing I needed was a distraction, and, having forgotten to put my cell phone on silent, it starts buzzing, indicating there are new messages, or notifications from all those social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Blogger...
Then the advice from all the so-called marketing gurus starts to swirl around in my head, and instead of writing, I'm now fretting over my social media presence.
The more I read the more it bothers me that if I don't have the right social media presence if I do not start to build an email list, all of my efforts in writing a book will come to naught.
That's when I start trawling the internet for information on marketing and found a plethora of people offering any amount of advice for anything between a 'small amount' to a rather large amount that gives comprehensive coverage of most social media platforms for periods of a day, a week or a month.
I move on to the people who offer advice for a cost on how to build a following, how to build a web presence, how to get a thousand Twitter followers, how to get thousands of email followers before the launch.
The trouble is I'm writing a novel, not a nonfiction book, or have some marvelous 30-page ebook on how to do something, for free just to drive people to my site.
I'm a novelist, not a handyman so those ideas while good is not going to help me.
Yet another problem to wrestle with along with actually creating a product to sell in the first place.
Except I'm supposed to be writing for the love of it without the premeditated idea of writing for gain or getting rich quick.
What am I missing here?
So should l be writing short stories and offering them for free to drive people to my site? These would have to be genre-specific so it needs time and effort and fit into a convenient size story that will highlight or showcase my talent.
Some time ago I created a website on one of those so-called free sites, but it's rather basic and not great. Of course, if I want it to be better, all I have to do is hand over a great wad of money I don't have to make it better. So much for free!
I don't think I will have a good night's sleep again with all of these social media problems I'm having.
Oh well, back to the book. It's time to have a nightmare of a different sort!
No comments:
Post a Comment