Thank you! Your post kind of stuck with me for a long walk I went on, and I decided that's the issue I'd write for this week. You put so many hours into marketing, and the fact is that the way to grow a [paying audience] is on the silk road.
Our priorities are to our families, right? And some modicum of that requires that we prioritize ourselves - we can't be good partners and parents without being in a good headspace. Plus, if your families' well-being is at all improved by some financial independence from our current system, alternate income streams, etc., then I'd argue you have to write more oceanpunk books and do whatever you can to sell them long before you decide to abandon Meta/Tiktok - even twitter. The good of your writing outweighs the bad of your use of those platforms.
FWIW this is exactly Cory Doctorow's thoughts, which is who I've been thinking a lot about lately. He refused to leave twitter and he even got a blue check - because -- paraphrasing -- "the writer's enemy is obscurity."
You can't spread whatever message you need to spread if you're not where the people are.
This is extremely well-said and poignant. Heavy stuff for a steep hill
Thank you! Your post kind of stuck with me for a long walk I went on, and I decided that's the issue I'd write for this week. You put so many hours into marketing, and the fact is that the way to grow a [paying audience] is on the silk road.
Our priorities are to our families, right? And some modicum of that requires that we prioritize ourselves - we can't be good partners and parents without being in a good headspace. Plus, if your families' well-being is at all improved by some financial independence from our current system, alternate income streams, etc., then I'd argue you have to write more oceanpunk books and do whatever you can to sell them long before you decide to abandon Meta/Tiktok - even twitter. The good of your writing outweighs the bad of your use of those platforms.
FWIW this is exactly Cory Doctorow's thoughts, which is who I've been thinking a lot about lately. He refused to leave twitter and he even got a blue check - because -- paraphrasing -- "the writer's enemy is obscurity."
You can't spread whatever message you need to spread if you're not where the people are.