My social media is making me feel lonely

Facebook is restricting what you see in your feed so much (and not all of it is bad because getting a ton of likes on something then selling the page to advertises is a new trend) that I pretty much get no comments on anything that I post anymore. My partner doesn’t even see everything I post.

This is terribly irritating, but also this is exactly why I laugh at anyone who says Facebook/Twitter plugging is the best way to sell your book. It is if people are talking about and recommending your book. Or if you’re dropping money to sponsor posts. If you aren’t it’s like standing in a classroom talking to yourself in the hopes that people passing through the hall will hear you.

And speaking of writing, I’m working on a lot right now.

I’ve found a file I thought I’d lost of Wolf Heart free promo stuff (a short story, playlist and little essay I wrote about it) and have been editing and formatting it for free release. Yeah, I know, almost a year after it first came out.

I’m also editing my next big attempt at snagging an agent. You know, because I’ve also decided it’s worth it to keep trying to do so.

I’m trying to rejoin the land of the living writers, namely by running some of my chapters of said novel by the critters over at Book Country. Some people are suspicious of the site. Fine, but I like the people I’ve found there and have found little pissy-writer-ego-drama over there.

I stopped reading writer blogs and going to writer boards because I felt I was just getting involved in the same arguments and the same opinion discussions over and over. I felt like I was spinning my wheels. But maybe it also kept me motivated to keep working. Maybe.

I’m working on a few shorts as well right now with the working titles of “Deep Winter”, “The Mermaid Tank” and “The Peculiarities of Normal”. I’m excited about all three, so yay for that!

So sometimes I fell like I’m doing that talking to an empty room thing, and I get back to work only to discover I have a small audience sitting and waiting for me to say something. I just hope it’s worth their wait.