I admit I have a problem. It all started with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), where I hooked up with a few other writers like myself - you know - One-day novelists ("One day, I'll write a novel"). Some of us started following one another on Twitter. One thing led to another and now I've joined the Writing Adventure Group.
So I blog my writing adventure, and then I read other people's blogs about the same writing adventure. Then I click into some of the blogs they have listed on their blogs and end up reading more and more interesting, funny, creative, inspiring blogs.
Then I start following all of those blogs, AND I start following all of those blog writers' twitters. Then I start following literary agents' twitters and then following literary agents' blogs. I knew i had a problem when I went to Facebook and wrote a status message that was unrecognizable to anyone who doesn't follow the same Twitters I follow. (It takes someone reading #queryfail to recognize someone writing about #queryfail.)
I don't know where it's going to end. It's like opening a box of cookies and saying "I'll just eat two." The next thing you know, you've spent an entire day doing nothing but reading... not....writing.
So I'm posting a cry for help on my blog. This way, I'll find out if anyone else has the same problem I have, or if I'm all alone in this cruel, cruel world. Is there a Bloggers or Twitterers Anonymous? A little bit of blog reading can be a good thing. Everything in moderation, as they say. But it's gone too far and I don't know how to stop.
I now think in Twitters... as if I'm doing or thinking anything relevant enough for the world to want to know about in 140 characters or less??
Meditation for the Mentally Interesting
4 weeks ago
4 comments:
I feel your pain... but, alas, I have no solutions or suggestions.
Thankfully, #queryfail will only be once a month. Guess who will be sick and bedridden that day. :P
Hi Jackie,
I'm not a twitterer yet but I can so relate. There is a blog called Addicted to Medblogs. Although I still read that blogger, I've dropped most of the medblogs (ones doctors and nurses have). They are addictive and scary. A lot of doctors blog and for a while I was reading their blogs but I started getting paranoid so I did cure my medblog addiction. However, I still have a ton of blogs in my bloglines which I follow. Between the photobloggers, melanoma bloggers, and other cancer bloggers, it is a lot, and I still read them although doing it in a feedreader like bloglines helps. Good luck with your addiction!
Thanks for your well wishes on my blog for my appointment and scan. I had the appointment right after the scan so they didn't tell me anything but said if there was a problem they would call Friday (yesterday) or Monday. I assume I'm NED because bad news travels fast at my docs and good news is slower. For that reason I went ahead and assumed good news when I don't hear yesterday.
I hope you have a great weekend, Carver
Hi! I don't know if you saw Stephen Colbert's comment about Twittering at Obama's address to Congress. He said that what you couldn't see was that Obama, too, was twittering: "OMG, totally addressing Congress!! LOL Mitch McConnell looks like a turtle!" Here's the link:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/219949/february-26-2009/claire-mccaskill-s-twittering
Yeah, the whole electronic thing is soooo addictive - FB, twitter, the forums, the blogs... but so much fun. I kick myself though because I could be writing. SHOULD be writing. Holy cow.
Love your blog, I'll be back, and thanks for visiting mine.
And Carver says there are medblogs. I'm in deep doo-doo now, I'm in the biz and haven't expanded beyound the writing biz and the mental health/substance abuse biz.
Peace, Linda
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