Practical Writing Advice: How to Use Social Media

Discover tips on how to use social media more effectively without wasting precious writing time in Avoid Social Media Time Suck by Frances Caballo.

Avoid Social Media Time Suck by Frances Caballo

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It’s all too easy to logon to your favorite social media site of choice and find that you’ve spent far too much time than you had intended to spend. Spending too much time on social media can leave you with less time to devote to your writing, especially if you’re already trying to fit writing time into an already packed schedule. This is where Frances Caballo’s guide to social media can be helpful.

Avoid Social Media Time Suck: A Blueprint for Writers to Create Online Buzz for Their Books and Still Have Time to Write contains lots of techniques to help you better use the time that you do spend on social media. Caballo lays out a four-step plan to improve your social media strategy. Her plan is then supplemented with lots of tools, many of them free, that you can find online to implement your strategy. The main points that I picked up from Avoid Social Media Time Suck were methods for finding content that my followers would likely enjoy and how to use automated tools to distribute that content throughout the day. This prevents me from going back to the computer every few hours and logging back onto social media for too long without being productive.

Caballo’s incredibly helpful guide is available on Amazon in both Kindle format (including for rental with a Kindle Unlimited Subscription) and paperback. For more writing resources, check out Caballo’s website Social Media Just for Writers. If you sign up for her newsletter, you’ll even get a free eBook on Twitter for writers!

What are your tips on how to use social media as a writer? Leave a comment below!

For more practical writing advice, check out my review of Rayne Hall’s Why Does My Book Not Sell?

 

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