Distractions

One of the best tools I have against distractions is self control. Actually that should have been capitalized; Self Control.

Self Control is free software for Macs that locks you out of whatever you decided to tell it to lock you out of. Just put it on your blacklist and you can't get into it even if you turn on and off your computer.

Anyone feel more productive before some agent/editor/author told you to get a 'platform'? These are the things that I lock myself out of. And when I say lock, you really are locked out of whatever you tell it to lock you out of. (Say, three hours without Facebook, Twitter, and Blogger.)

It is a life saver and it's FREE!

But I should remind people to donate to kind folks who share their talents for free. Call it Karma.

Anyone have a good suggestion for Window's users?

Oh, the troubles of new technology!

I feel like such a teeny tiny blue bird hopping around aimlessly on Twitter. I am having so much trouble understanding the medium. I can Facebook, chat, video conference, text, email, and blog but I'm a pretty terrible tweeter. I keep looking for the 'like' button. I want to make a brief comment about someone's tweet but not subject everyone who follows me to this "LOL" or "Me too!!"

I just have to remind myself that I am not the first person who was befuddled by new technology.

I am willing to take any Twitter advice anyone has for me.

I'm pretty Twerrible. 

(Yes, I just said that. No, I won't delete it.)

Why I have an Author Blog...

Alright, I have known I should be doing this for a while now. It's been poking at me and pestering me for the past month. Yesterday a friend said she would cyberstalk my empty blog waiting for me to post. But still, nothing.  I even told myself this morning, that I should start it next Monday (Why Monday? All I knew was that Monday wasn't today.)

Then today on writerunboxed I saw this article on having an author blog.
Today!
It's like the universe was hitting me on the head.
I get it.
I get it.
I get it.

So here I am.

I highly recommend reading the article on writerunboxed as it applies to marketing social media and very few of us can consider ourselves exempt from that nowadays. It talks about the idea that having a twitter and a facebook is not enough. You control your material better on blogs. That is a universal idea.