Tag: lost

Trying to get Twitter

So I’m trying to up my Twitter game …
My guide to building a social media platform for my writing has been challenging. I find Twitter to be overwhelming.

Ok, Boomer
I’m aware that a good part of the reason I’m overwhelmed is because I’m getting older. As much as I hate this fact, it’s unavoidable. And everything I’ve heard says that the older generation has to explain technology to the younger generation.

The overwhelming factor
What I find overwhelming is the sheer size of the Twitterverse. How do people have time to read all these posts? It seems like posting is akin to throwing the message-in-a-bottle out into the endless ocean and hoping someone sees it.

It’s not so bad, people assure me. There’s always hashtags. If you can figure out the hashtags, people will read you. If. You. Figure. Out. The. Hashtags. 

My husband just explained hashtags: You make a post; you create a hashtag. Other people notice the hashtag, and it trends, and then people notice, and then you get likes and retweets. Except this is the Twitterverse, which as I pointed out is a vast sea of hashtags. 

To my relief, I know one of the hashtags people use to promote writing, or at least being a writer: #writingcommunity. 

All is Not Lost
I did the thing I should have done a long time ago — ask people in #writingcommunity what hashtags I should use as a writer. I also participated in a #writerslift thread. 

Maybe I’ll get the hang of this.

If you can help me get the hang of this, please email at lleachie@gmail.com

Sorry!

I haven’t written in a couple days, for which I’m sorry. I like interacting with all of you.

Update:

  • My final grades get turned in at 10 AM today. I have NO incomplete grades for perhaps ever. 
  • I’ve gotten a few more rejections on Prodigies. I have to find a different strategy or give up.
  • I have a lot of editing to do with Voyageurs. The “let’s rearrange the chapters” kind of edit. The “I don’t like your characters” kind of edit. I’m dragging my feet on the edit because I’m still braindead from the end of the semester. But I push myself an hour at a time. 
I don’t know how to talk about the rejections without whining. If effort were enough, I would be published, because Prodigies went through two dev editors and should be pretty polished by now. I am getting rejected because the book “just doesn’t grab them.” I don’t know what to do about that. Maybe that’s one more thing to learn. 
Talk later — back to editing.