Introverts Untie: Staying sane with Social Media

[alex_beecroft]

I appear to have completely failed to tell anyone about this guest blog that I did on Julia Knight’s blog.

How to stay sane with social media

so I thought I would link it now.  I do, in fact, try to keep up with Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Livejournal and my list of blogs I read in Google Reader, but the post is the fruits of the fact that I started out keeping up with them more and ended up being too depressed and hassled to write.

And on a completely different subject, what is probably the coolest thing ever (if you’re me).  False Colors is being taught by Eric Selinger as part of the upper-division (advanced undergraduate) course on popular romance fiction at DePaul university.  I was terribly curious to know what kind of things the students would be asked about it, and thrilled when Eric posted about that very thing on the Teach Me Tonight blog.

The “is penetrative sex considered by women to be the apex of sex?” question is of course something that’s been discussed in slash-writing communities for some time.  It’s therefore something I actually thought about when writing the book.  But I am surprised to find that the violence in the book is a talking point.  I suppose there is a lot of it, but I hadn’t really thought of it as a notable feature before.

I just can’t say how much I’m thrilled to think False Colors can stand up to being  subjected to sustained intellectual study.   (At least, I hope it can.  I don’t know what the students actually think of it!)

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Comments

[kis]

Excellent advice. Thanks for sharing it.

[alex_beecroft]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[ithilwen]

I keep sane with social media by limiting my time on it. It may help my sanity and stress levels, but it's doing nothing good as far as regular DW/LJ updates goes!

[alex_beecroft]

I have found it's easier to choose a regular day every week that you will update. That way you can get it out of the way on a Monday and then not have to think about it any more for the rest of the week.

[ithilwen]

I may need to try that approach. It does squelch spontaneity, but that may be a price worth paying if it gets me on a regular updating schedule again.

[alex_beecroft]

Well, you don't have to write them all on that day. I tend to write them when I feel like it and then post them once a week. Usually I have a surplus in hand, but if I don't then the deadline forces me to think of something.