Making Media Manageable

…Or How not to Waste all your time on Facebook

The biggest and, to be honest, quite valid complaint about Social Media is that it’s a time-sink.  Especially for someone like me, who works at home on her computer.   If you have plenty of time left in your day, there is no surer way to sap [...]

Go Do Some Twitter: Using Social Media for Writers

Part 1: The Setup

Go do some Twitter!  Get on Facebook!  Where is your blog?  When are you going to have your website up?  Have you ever noticed how everyone has plenty of advice about how you should be using the Internet, but nobody really seems to know how?  After years of popularity, the [...]

No Apologies Dammit! A lesson from the Writers at the Beach: Seaglass 2010 conference

The urge to introduce my reading with apologies was so strong!  We had just spent four minutes doing a writing exercise at one of my Seaglass 2010 workshop sessions and now each of us was reading what we had come up with out loud.  The readings were circling the table and getting dangerously close!

In my [...]