Work week 2023-02-20
Maker: NA
Manager: Transcribe HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT (28 pp remaining)
Marketer: Think about formalizing POSSE strategy, but mostly stay out of the way of transcription
(Sometimes it helps me to have notes on my intentions, so I can at least know I’m doing what I’m not supposed to be doing. Format is cribbed from Orna Ross’ three-part framework.)
POSSE is a term I picked up from Cory Doctorow (of course). It’s a strategy I’ve been following sort of haphazardly with this site, more so as I’ve found myself having to turn my plugins off to keep it performant; I had each post automatically going to my Facebook author page and Twitter, but I’d twiddle it a little depending on what I thought might be more or less interesting on any given site. POSSE isn’t what you’d call a revolutionary idea but it is possibly clarifying. I’ve heard a fair bit of advice that you want to differentiate the content across your social media services, so people will follow you everywhere. The point of POSSE, in contrast, is that people can follow you anywhere. That seems more realistic, both in terms of what it’s asking from the reader (“follow me wherever’s good for you” vs “miss out if you’re not on all my socials”) and what it’s asking from the writer (one stream of output, broadly syndicated, vs. tailored outputs for each social).
If I’m serious about this, I probably ought to change my email onboarding sequence. Christ on a bike.
This week is about transcription, though. Unfortunately for me, I’ve picked up DON’T FEAR THE REAPER from my local library, so staying on task is going to be work. Well, more work than usual.
Speaking of which, I shouldn’t dwell on review-adjacent material at the time, but it’s been interesting to note while I’m reading DON’T FEAR THE REAPER a thing I did with the first book in the series, MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW: I loved the book so much that I read it fast, and I read it so fast that I forgot a lot of what I loved about it. I do this a lot, especially with comics. I don’t know if it’s necessarily something I should stop doing? But maybe I should consider slowing down. Or just reread more. (One thing I do remember about MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW is there’s one very salient scene that doesn’t make a ton of sense in light of the resolution, and I do want to go back and reread it with solving that in mind. By the way, if you like SGJ and you like twisty Wolfeian mysteries without in-text resolutions, his book GROWING UP DEAD IN TEXAS is fantastic.)
This week’s image is my Duolingo streak, because I’m hungry.
Currently reading: DON’T FEAR THE REAPER, by Stephen Graham Jones.
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