I’m feeling kinda goofy this week. It could be the ever-present caffeine or the full 8 hours of sleep I am getting each night or the 10,000 steps I keep taking each day, but I think it’s actually the fact that I have been Facebook free for 72 hours.<\/p>\n
Yes, for the last week of July, I decided to stop Facebooking completely. I actually started weaning myself off it 2 weeks ago, but by Saturday, I was fed up with some of the ridiculous comments on posts and I said “enough!”<\/p>\n
Okay, okay, really it was because I started to realize just how much time I was spending on the Book. Whenever I had to work on something that wasn’t exciting, I logged on to FB and read and read and read. And when my friends weren’t posting updates or sharing memes fast enough, I would get antsy. As a result, I wasn’t getting stuff done.<\/p>\n
So I went cold turkey…and it hurt. Sunday I was convinced nobody loved me, Monday I was sure no one even liked<\/em> me. I’ll be honest. I shed more than a few tears of self-doubt in the first 48 hours.<\/p>\n But at the same time, I was discovering something else: All the ideas I wanted to share on FB could be shared elsewhere—on other social media sites,<\/a> on my blog, on Patreon<\/a> (I scheduled a lot of posts there!), and even on other writing\/publication sites. Instead of wasting my time, energy, and creativity on FB, I was invigorated to share my writing and ideas in other public forums, places that might get more eyes on my creative writing.<\/p>\n I’m still moving slowly in these other realms. I don’t want to jump head first into five different arenas and not be able to keep up. I am working on one outlet at a time. As I feel more confident that I can maintain the pace I am setting, I move on to the next outlet. Soon…world domination!!! (okay, that is definitely the caffeine talking)<\/p>\n