Using Robots to Keep the Pace

Because human pace is too slow if you want to make it in this world.

Crissi Langwell 🦋

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This morning I saw an ad on writing blog posts faster with robots.

And it perfectly dredged up the disgust I feel toward what it takes to keep my name out there. That we must now rely on fucking ROBOTS to be able to keep the pace.

I can’t do it.

When I launched my latest book, I believe I did a stellar job of pushing that book out to the public. And I had fun with it. I set up ads through Facebook and Amazon. I had a blogging schedule and created some pretty great content that helped share little known facts about the book. I posted regularly to Instagram and Tiktok, both of which were a huge help in boosting sales and exposure of my book baby.

I was proud of my efforts, and pleased with the results. It all paid off, because my latest book ended up having the most successful book launch of all my books. I worked damn hard for that, and because of that, I had more people read my latest book in the last 6 months than some of my books have in their lifetime.

But I was also not getting anything else done — writing, in particular. All my energy was put into pushing my book out to the public and watching my sales numbers react. It was addicting. It was also…

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Crissi Langwell 🦋

Romance & women’s fiction author. I write on Medium about a variety of topics because I’m not good at staying in one lane. crissilangwell.com/links