Who needs a social network to persuade her not to do any social networking? I do! Social networking is great. I love it. Too much. Which is why I’m going on a cyber-diet.
I’m declaring Tuesday, March 3, a social network-free day, and asking you to join me.
Why? Because I’m supposed to be writing a novel, but I spent all of Tuesday setting up a facebook fan page for The Year of Fog (you don’t think I’d miss this opportunity to promote it, do you?), and much of Wednesday discussing fan pages and the like with other writers, in several cases sucking them into the vortex. How many words of my novel did I produce on Tuesday and Wednesday? 157–TOTAL. For authors, there’s a great deal of pressure to promote our books. But, somewhere in between all the promoting, the books actually have to get written.
The rules: no Facebook, no Goodreads, no Linked-in, no blogging, no Redroom, no Library Thing, no (name your poison) for one whole day. (My personal poison is email, so I’m cutting that one out too.) Spend that time writing instead.
Okay, who’s with me?
