I have a pile of WIPs that I’m actually going to submit at some point. I chose this year, when I have taken a science fictionally significant number of spins around the sun, as the year to start sending them out. In the spirit of New Year’s Resolutions, I also spun up this site and a few social media accounts. This means that whenever I do have something published, there will be some amount of content already in place. More importantly, it means I will have already done the administrivia of setting things up and gotten that flavor of distractability out of my system. (Or so I tell myself.)
At the moment, Twitter is mostly for following a few authors, with some retweets and original tweets. I’ve been on Twitter for a number of years, but when I started I vowed that I would follow folks in just a few fields. I stuck to that and I think it was a good plan. So the second account is not cheating, it’s just replicating the strategy for a different field. (Or so I tell myself.)
I’m using Dreamwidth as a place to dump selected progress updates. I keep more meaningful logs elsewhere—word counts, notes about what I’m working on, brilliant thoughts to incorporate, that sort of thing. But as the journal is public—albeit uninteresting to anyone who is not me—it may serve an accountability purpose. (Or so I tell myself.)
Anyway, that is what I am currently doing, and why I am doing it even though no one is watching.
