It's time for another Insecure
Writer's Support Group blog posting. IWSG was created by the awesome ninja
captain Alex J. Cavanaugh, and you can find a list of all the other members of
the group here
His awesome co-hosts for the January 7 posting of the IWSG are:
Elizabeth Seckman, Lisa Buie-Collard, Chrys Fey, andMichelle Wallace!
I must confess, Social
Media overwhelmed me.
After joining several sites including Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads, I started blogging to promote my published novels. I interviewed other authors and participated in a variety of blog hops. At some point, I lost traction as the social world moved too fast for me to keep up, especially if I wanted to write more novels.
After joining several sites including Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads, I started blogging to promote my published novels. I interviewed other authors and participated in a variety of blog hops. At some point, I lost traction as the social world moved too fast for me to keep up, especially if I wanted to write more novels.
Writing,
research, and editing are fun for me. Meeting other writers and marketing my
books are also on my list of fun activities. If it was possible to do
everything, I would. Admitting I couldn’t was the breakthrough that rendered instant
relief. My stress level declined once I learned to strike a happy medium by
staying within my abilities.
At
first, I withdrew almost completely from online activities. The withdrawal corresponded
with the year-end holidays. I took time to determine what I enjoyed doing most
in terms of lifetime goals.
If
ambition is the last refuge of
failure, as quoted by Oscar Wilde (and Gil Grissom) then I feel justified in
swapping ambition for happiness by living at my own comfortable pace.
Of
course, my pace varies. I currently have three more novels written and in various
stages of development. These projects were not created as a result of ambition
but from a need to write. This, to me, is the definition of happiness.
