An Author Who Isn’t Writing
6 October 2009
So here’s a real bummer about being published: I have no time to write.
Okay, that’s not totally true, but I’m in the middle of giving myself a crash course on marketing and all the stuff I apparently should have been doing a year ago. Nothing like reading, “To do this step well, start a year before your book releases,” then glancing at Me, Just Different which has graced my shelf for nearly four beautiful months. And while I’m trying to figure out what marketing style fits me (visits to book stores? Yes. Update my Twitter page a thousand times a day with fascinating quips? Probably not. Oh, and while we’re talking about it, follow me on Twitter. I try to post a couple times a day, and I do my best to be interesting. I’m really selling it, huh?)
And by the time I network with other writers through e-mail, prep presentations for schools, print up postcards for my upcoming signings, and do all the other marketing things I’m trying to squeeze into my time, I find myself with zero time and energy for what I actually love—writing.
I think I’ll have to start declaring one official writing day a week. Most days, I’m able to write for at least 30 minutes or an hour. Recently, I get so frustrated over or nervous about marketing things that I can’t calm my brain down enough to write.
Limiting my coffee intake might help with this as well.
Happy Tuesday everybody. Today, do something you enjoy.
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