multi-tasking (writing and social media)
I am not very good at multi-tasking. That’s not to say I’m especially good at single tasking. I’m not. (I have a tendency to hyper-fixate and burn out or else procrastinate and produce nothing.) But multi-tasking is a big challenge for me. I should specify that I can do the simple things: pull a shot of espresso while a teapot fills with boiling water, smile while I take your order, etc. So that is one of my jobs taken care of. However, maintaining a social media presence while writing...these tasks are removed from each other like two lovers sharing a video call. One talks about themselves too much. The other spends too much time masturbating.
I am getting off track.
(Or am I?)
How do you do it? And what exactly should you be doing? Spend an hour scanning and replying to tweets when you could be reading and learning from books in your chosen field? For that matter, how do you spend time reading relevant books when you must also read from literary magazines in advance of submitting pieces to them? And how do you spend time reading literary magazines when your energy is spent so fretfully writing in the hopes that you will finally produce something desirable? How do you develop an audience as a writer, online, when you cannot publish pieces on your blogs and profiles for risk that magazine editors, at a later submission date, will refuse those works for their taken virginity? And of course, how can you justify upping your magazine submission output, in the hopes of something slipping through the slender cracks, when so many groups require payment for each submission?
Do you ever get the sense that you’re performing free labour and then begging people to accept it? I’ve never asked myself this in such terms before. Have you? Are we each other’s competition? How do you feel about that?
I’m very tired.
I am afraid of most people.
I wrote a musical this year in my downtime. Does anybody want to hear it?
…
<3 <3 <3
I am getting off track.
(Or am I?)
How do you do it? And what exactly should you be doing? Spend an hour scanning and replying to tweets when you could be reading and learning from books in your chosen field? For that matter, how do you spend time reading relevant books when you must also read from literary magazines in advance of submitting pieces to them? And how do you spend time reading literary magazines when your energy is spent so fretfully writing in the hopes that you will finally produce something desirable? How do you develop an audience as a writer, online, when you cannot publish pieces on your blogs and profiles for risk that magazine editors, at a later submission date, will refuse those works for their taken virginity? And of course, how can you justify upping your magazine submission output, in the hopes of something slipping through the slender cracks, when so many groups require payment for each submission?
Do you ever get the sense that you’re performing free labour and then begging people to accept it? I’ve never asked myself this in such terms before. Have you? Are we each other’s competition? How do you feel about that?
I’m very tired.
I am afraid of most people.
I wrote a musical this year in my downtime. Does anybody want to hear it?
…
<3 <3 <3
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