Why is taking time off so hard? I took the day to pack and clean before I travel, but I've spent all morning trying to resist opening slack "just to check"
Shannon O'Shea
@shannon_oshea
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Pro writer with an extremely cute dog. Philly 'burbs. Digital marketing pays the bills, speculative fiction feeds the soul.
Is anyone else on threads and like.... really hate it? it's just an endless barrage of unwanted verified accounts I don't follow. like, stop showing me cruise line accounts!!! i have never interacted with that content!!
pursuant to that, pride starts tomorrow. if you're thinking about posting any of the following:
- dedicating the month to jesus
- returning to conservative values
- straight pride
- rainbows belong to god, actually
kindly don't.
Somewhere out there... there's a straight white man who is only safe from getting his shit called out because I still (for now) respect his wife enough not to put her in such an awkward position.
tl;dr: don't subtweet your submissions. it's not a good look. just send them a form.
I think it would have been enough to simply say "we're getting a lot of fairy tale submissions this round and only have a few slots." Or to just tweet, "here's what we look for in fairy tales."
Maybe I'm over-sensitive. But smashing them together like that felt weirdly demeaning.
Thinking about what makes feedback helpful vs. out of place.
A spec fic mag I follow on the birdsite just tweeted that they're inundated with fairy tales, and how to evaluate if yours is worth sending.
On one hand, it's good advice for interrogating your writing.
On the other, something about the context (commenting vaguely about work they've received but haven't yet responded to) gives me like. A crazy amount of anxiety. And I didn't even submit!!
With the WGA strike, everyone is (rightfully) concerned about profit-obsessed industry leaders replacing writers with AI.
To be honest, that conversation has been ongoing for a while in the marketing industry, too.
I get it. I don't want to lose my job, either.
But here's an angle that nobody seems to be talking about:
AI GENERATED CONTENT SUCKS.
It's so bad, you guys. Not only is the writing low quality, but it invents facts and quotes wholesale.
Say no to AI content. Pay a writer.
boring work question for freelance and content writers out there:
what do you use to track and measure performance of your pieces? do you even bother?
my eternal gratitude for a portfolio platform with built-in analytics. does this even exist?
Are any other writers, like me, still struggling with the post-pandemic fallout?
The shutdown REALLY threw off my creative groove, to the point where I'm currently rebuilding my #writing life almost from scratch.
So far, the hardest part? Creativity. Like many other muscles, without stimulation, my imagination atrophied. It's only now that I'm beginning to find inspiration again.
How?
I made a short infographic to describe my process-in-progress. Let me know if it helps!
