If I need to write all the great blogs out there, read the recently published books in children's genre and then do some reading for pleasure, what little time I have left over, I lament that I have not done enough reading on the marketplace and trade magazines.
There is so little time in a given day that having to read and absorb so much content is over-whelming.
On top of that, writers like me who have published one or two books, need to do their own publicity and marketing - so the rest of the time goes in social networking, doing cross-blogs, cross-reviews and whatever else that will get our names out there.
So when do I get to write?
I think writing needs to be slotted in to an hour first. The rest have to fit in with each other. I am trying to read less twitter and more trade magazines. I use twitter as a distraction in meetings, while on the train with nothing to do. Whichever tweet I want to follow up, I email that to myself and then look it up later.
But the blogs are so innumerable - writing organisations, writers, editors, agents, organisations that promote literacy, books - the list is endless. We all have things to say and we are saying it eloquently on the Internet. But it is getting very noisy for me and I am trying to figure out which ones I should read, can I live without the blogs or do I get selective?
The choices are many and the time is limited. Especially when my full-time day job pays the bills.
There is so little time in a given day that having to read and absorb so much content is over-whelming.
On top of that, writers like me who have published one or two books, need to do their own publicity and marketing - so the rest of the time goes in social networking, doing cross-blogs, cross-reviews and whatever else that will get our names out there.
So when do I get to write?
I think writing needs to be slotted in to an hour first. The rest have to fit in with each other. I am trying to read less twitter and more trade magazines. I use twitter as a distraction in meetings, while on the train with nothing to do. Whichever tweet I want to follow up, I email that to myself and then look it up later.
But the blogs are so innumerable - writing organisations, writers, editors, agents, organisations that promote literacy, books - the list is endless. We all have things to say and we are saying it eloquently on the Internet. But it is getting very noisy for me and I am trying to figure out which ones I should read, can I live without the blogs or do I get selective?
The choices are many and the time is limited. Especially when my full-time day job pays the bills.
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