Ericka Scott


Social Networking Woes
Monday, April 12th, 2010
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As if it isn’t enough to write & self-edit a book, promoting one’s book is also an author’s duty. For those of us who are a bit shy or technologically challenged, this can be a nightmare.

I do have a myspace page, a facebook profile, and a twitter account. I try to access all of them at least once a day. For whatever reason, the Facebook account gives me the most problems. Partly because they are always “tweaking” it, much like what Drama Teen does with her recipes. Today, none of my blog feeds are going to my Facebook account. And I’m puzzled as to how I get my updates from my profile page to link to my newly created fan page without having to cut and paste. Grrr.

As if I didn’t have enough to do!

I spent 3 hours at Panera Bread yesterday editing Nevermore. I’m up to page 101 on the hardcopy but haven’t hit page 50 yet in the electronic version. The nice thing is that as well as taking out extraneous “telling”, I’m adding words. My goal, an additional 8K. I know that later on in the book I have 2 scenes to add….and the Chapter 4 rewrite should add a chunk as well.

The worst part of this whole process is I thought I had until the end of the month to get all of the editing done…however, the school district, has once again thrown a wrench into the works. Star Testing… a whole week and a half of minimum days at the end of the month! Lordy…no wonder our children don’t learn anything — Le sigh.

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