Comments on: Winning the Anxiety War

By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 12-14-2017 | The Author Chronicles

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 03:15:05 +0000

[…] lot of writing is getting past your own inner demons, especially fear. Piper Bayard discusses winning the anxiety war, Kathryn Magendie tackles the big ol’ scary monster at our window: fear, and Nicole Baart […]

By: Piper Bayard

Piper Bayard — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 03:58:51 +0000

In reply to authorelisemanion. Only commenting to a limited group is a great way to participate without exposing yourself to unwanted postings. Those trolls are tenacious, though. Good thing we can block them and delete their comments.. :)

By: Piper Bayard

Piper Bayard — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 03:56:16 +0000

In reply to Sheila M. Good, Author. You are most welcome. So glad you found the article worthwhile.

By: Piper Bayard

Piper Bayard — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 03:55:30 +0000

In reply to Glynis Jolly. I get it. I call that the Blog Love Circle Stroke. As bloggers, we share the blog love, and we love to receive the blog love. The problem is that we end up blog loving all day, and our real work falls to the wayside. I would point out two things: First, as we said in law (I'm a recovering attorney), do the paying work first. That's the WIP. Second, unless we are writing books for writers, writers are not our audience. The purpose of the blog is to build our own audience of fans. So often in the Blog Love Circle Stroke, if we stop stroking others, they stop stroking us. That means they are not our audience. We want fans, not a mutual admiration society. One way to use compartmentalization to break out of the Blog Love Circle Stroke is to always open the WIP first. Let the Blog Love be your reward for having written your pages on your WIP. Set a time later in the day to look at blogs, and set a time limit for doing so. We don't have to respond to every blog. Just check in once a week. If they stop stroking back, they weren't your fan. They were only stroking you to get the return strokes, and that doesn't sell books. Good luck!

By: authorelisemanion

authorelisemanion — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:03:54 +0000

Thank you for sharing this information. I knew about Soros, but not the others. Social media can be a time-suck, so I've tried to limit my comments to only family and friends who are posting pictures of their vacations, kids, dogs, etc before I log off but every once in a while a troll will find me. yikes!

By: Sheila M. Good, Author

Sheila M. Good, Author — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:14:41 +0000

Thank you so much for your insightful post! Excellent advice for all! Cow Pasture Chronicles

By: Glynis Jolly

Glynis Jolly — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:09:03 +0000

Piper, to tell the truth, the social media sites don't effect me the way I see them effecting others. My problem is blogs. Yes, here I am, a blogger and whoever I am following on the blogosphere I feel deserves my attention each time they send me an email telling me of a new post they've written. What is so silly about it is that most of the bloggers I follow are writers. Certainly they will understand if I miss one or two posts every once in a while so I can work on my WiP. However, I am obsessed with following through on those email.

By: Piper Bayard

Piper Bayard — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:43:25 +0000

In reply to Laura Drake. LOL. Love it.

By: Laura Drake

Laura Drake — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:51:55 +0000

Best survival term I know: Scroll, scroll, scroll.

By: Piper Bayard

Piper Bayard — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 03:07:47 +0000

In reply to Jenny Hansen. Thank you, Jenny. I appreciate you turning me loose on this topic. :)