Is Social Media Really “Free” Book Marketing?
29/05/2025
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Part two in an ongoing series thinking through the relationship between social media, marketing, and being an active writer. You can read
Earlier this week I put together my writing-based to-do list that covers all the stuff I’d like to achieve between now and the end of February. It basically consists of a novel draft, an exegesis draft, a novella draft, and a dozen stories that either need to be written or re-written. It’s the kind of workload that seems reasonable inside my head, but experience says that real life will not let it run as smoothly as I expect. Especially since the work breakdown says I should have a story draft done by this Sunday, as well as a small chunk of novel and a 3500 word outline for the exegesis. My brain is refusing to do any of it and demanding to watch Predator 2 instead (No, I don’t know why Predator 2 has become the topic of fixation, but apparently my subconscious is convinced it’s a reasonable facsimile for work).
I’m not panicking about this, which is my usual modus operandi. For starters, I’m not going to give into the Predator fixation, and I can outlast my subconscious in this kind of stuff. I figure sometime, probably in a week or two, it’ll get on board with this list of stuff and get working on it and everything will be hunky-dory until the next complete lapse of writerly discipline and self-doubt hits in March.
Part two in an ongoing series thinking through the relationship between social media, marketing, and being an active writer. You can read
It’s the eighteenth of March here in Australia, which means I’ve just turned another year older. We’re still fixing things up after
I’m writing this from an apartment packed down for impending cyclone/hurricane due to hit Brisbane some time in the next 24 hours.
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Predator fixation…I can absolutely identify. Predator I and II areone of my fav sci fi films. My ultimates are Children of Men and Blade Runner for the social commentary/ character arcs though. I vividly remember as a kid copying the cover art for the SNES Alien Vs Predator game. Little did I know that someday a poor director would direct the AvP abominations though but as a kid it was such a good idea combining the two creatures. Sadly the end result in film def wasnt peanut butter and chocolate time.