When you HAVE TO Write
Written by Robert Bacal | 
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| Writer's Cramp - General |
I've never felt like I simply HAD to write. Except now. I don't know if it's a sign of maturing as a writer, or maturing into a professional writer, or a sign of dementia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, but I suspect the later. Be that as it may, it's an odd feeling.
Mornings I stagger out of bad having slept badly because of phrases for books that I need to write. Coffee and words are preferabl companions. Which is good up to a point. It's Juyl 25th, and so far, I've written, edited and completed FIVE books, in addition to the flotsam and jetsam of writing on blogs and social media. That's ahead of schedule, since I was planning to do six books this year.
My summer is littered with words, like sand crabs on a beach, and there's noxious weeds growing between the cracks of the paving stones on the driveway.
What to do? Take a forced holiday? Or follow the gut feelings and forge ahead, workoholic like. Have you been here? Share your thoughts.
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Twitter Skank(Y)
MicroThoughts
Twitter is starting to be the skanky older sister of the girl you go out with in order to get some. She's still has some attraction, but in the end you realize it's a dry hole to plumb, lacking in substance. Even tarted up, she has the odor of neglect.Officially Bogus
It's official. It's now impossible to keep up with the irrelevant data, false claims, illogical conclusions, and plain bad journalism associated with positive claims about social media. No single person could even find most of this, and it's impossible to explain to people why and how the numbers are wrongly interpreted. There are simply not enough hours in the day. The "expert pool" is totally polluted and now mainstream press, who depends on these experts on social media is reporting completely bogus and nutty things about social media success. Bogus, Dude!
Engage:
One of the prime illusions for business using social media is that it appears that "customers" are engaged by the company. It's more accurate to say (if on Twitter) that people are engaged with Twitter, even if they are communicating with the company. In any case, the term is over-used and misleading.
Being Heard
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Scoundrel
You can tell your "social media expert" is a scoundrel or utterly ignorant if they use the phrase "They just don't get social media". The truth is that the expert doesn't get social media, or how human beings work and is unable to come up with anything better to refute arguments or disagreements about social media.
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