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Originally Posted by kennyc
I think an author's time is better spent writing than tweeting.
yeah you can quote me.....
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I thought I would.
I find it really hard to imagine participating all that much on social media with respect to my writing - it's all so distracting. I already spend way too much time on MR - I stopped posting here much for several months simply because my writing was going well and I wanted to avoid the distraction. (The fact that I am participating more now (and really just on this part of the forum) relates to the fact that my writing has reached a difficult point and I'm having trouble going forward, so I'm finding it easier than usual to get distracted.) If I start adding Facebook, Twitter, a blog and all these other things, just how would I have time to write?
I'm wondering if it is one of the chicken-and-egg problems: If your books sell and make enough money to let you write full time, then perhaps there is some spare time to spend being social. But until then you need to work at a paid job, so writing time is limited and leaves little time for social sites and other marketing. But the books will never start selling enough until they are marketed ... (etc. etc. etc.).