10-01-2014, 06:10 PM
(10-01-2014, 05:57 PM)Leanne Wrote:I have no blogs...though I plan to make a go at something of that nature and use whatever social media I can to increase exposure. I like twitter because it's more focused. If someone follows you on Twitter, they are most likely interested in the stuff you are doing. Especially if you have a starting body of work which has already gained some sort of internet following.(10-01-2014, 05:50 PM)maximumjake Wrote: sorry I went so off-topic. Did the classic "read the title not the thread" forum mistake.It wasn't really off topic. It's all related and we like tangents
I really mistrust people who join up and instantly brag about this and that publication, with links to blogs and whatnot, expecting us to fawn all over them. This is principally a site for sharing and improving poetry, not for attention whoring and certainly not to make loads of money. (billy, where's that massive big cheque you promised me?) As billy said, we have a thread where people can post details of their own publications and they can put info in their signatures, but really this should be about what you're doing now, not what you've done in the past.
Most people hate facebook...I love mine, because the only people that I "follow" are fucking awesome...save maybe for that girl I had a crush on and still follow even though she's posting selfies at Starbucks. Facebook is all for big brother at this point. If I post that I wrote a children's book about stars to my 3000 facebook friends, it means nothing, because perhaps only 100 are actually following and out of that, 10 are interested in stars and of the proper age range. That being said, it's still a good way to connect with other minds and form little threads, not unlike this, which can seed good things. I work in television production, and in between projects I work freelance doing anything I can...I write poetry not for bread (that's taken care of for now, I'm super grateful), but because if I don't my life is just all bad.
there's a new social network on the horizon called ello which is in beta. Worth looking into.