Do you spend a lot of time on social media?
Hmm. Not like I used to. In the past I gave a lot of time to Twitter and Google+ (made a lovely friend and joined a wonderful group). I have an account with Pinterest and Goodreads as well, but I visit rarely. I’ve since narrowed my activity to Facebook and keeping up this blog. I just can’t be split all over the place keeping an internet presence, writing and publishing, and working the day job.
Even my efforts at keeping those two sites up are cranked down quite a bit. I visit Facebook once a day and read the two groups I like, post a comment or two and maybe visit my books page and make a post there. As for this blog, I am trying to post once a week on Saturdays. Even so, I’ve missed a few days here and there.
But my writing is a daily effort. I am working on the third book in the Standing Stone fantasy series and am meeting the goals I set for myself to ensure a publication in September. When I’m not writing and putting in my brief social media visits, then I’m spending time with my husband and learning to play a musical instrument.
I posted awhile back about keeping the mind sharp. One of the points I made is how much learning to play an instrument it related to maintaining memory. So I’ve taken the plunge and I’m learning to play the twelve hole ocarina. I won’t be posting any songs online anytime in the near, and probably distant, future. I am about as novice a musician as they come. I am learning about notes and rests and treble clef, etc. It’s another language to say the least.
So no time for a big social media presence. But I do have author pages at Smashwords and on Amazon for those interested in knowing me better than just what I post here.
I am working up the courage to start a newsletter. It was one of my summer goals. Summer is not over yet, but I won’t promise anything. I’ll have to learn how to create an email base, a newsletter, setup signup pages and add them to my books as well as this site. But it will have to wait for the completed draft of book 3 and the weeks it will be with my beta readers when I can take a short writing break.
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