Writers, like runners, revel in long stretches of solitary time
Still. I promised myself that when my book was published, I’d not make a break for it. Not run from the finish line.
That is why I am trying my hand at social media.
My goals:
- care less
- be spontaneous
- post pictures, pare down prose
- don’t obsess over “audience.”
They go against everything I am:
- careful
- middle-aged
- see #2
- a rhetorician.
I just needed to say that out loud to this audience: small, predictable, maybe even non- existent. Just how I like it.
But I am learning (again) that we don’t have to like the rules of engagement to engage. And I want to participate, or at least practice, at this different kind of connecting. Even if–especially because–it feels so uncomfortable and unfamiliar. Not me.
Once again the teacher becomes the student. Welcome to the new semester.
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