Using Robots to Keep the Pace

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

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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 clear that if I stopped the full bore marketing machine, I would also stop any forward momentum of sales.

It became a choice between marketing and writing, and marketing kept winning out.

I figured I was burnt out on writing, anyway, so why not put all my energy into marketing. The truth was, I was too distracted to actually write. There were too many voices in my head about trends I needed to follow, book teases I needed to share, new content I needed to create about the same thing… There wasn’t room for blissful creativity because I was too busy paying attention to everyone and everything else in my mission to sell more books.

Then November came, and I was forced to pause my marketing strategy. This year, I decided to take part in NaNoWriMo and write a book in 30 days. I have plans to release a series in 2023, but book 2 has proved to be difficult to write. I’ve actually started three different books for the…