Here are the other very important things I have been doing instead:
- I have gone through old blogposts on this blog and made Pinterest-worthy images for them with Pablo by Buffer, my new favorite thing. (See the image on this post as an example. It's free!)
- I have gone through super-old posts on Hobo Mama to clean up code and add in affiliate-link warnings when needed for FTC compliance. (I'm still working on this.)
- I have written six blogposts.
- I have come up with two ideas for middle grade fiction series, and one for a literary novel.
- I have researched Pinterest schedulers. Thoroughly.
- I have futzed around with same.
- I have updated my Feedly with tons of new RSS feeds from writing and publishing blogs.
- I have copied the links over into my blog list in the sidebar. (Enjoy!)
- I have read and shared many of these newly discovered articles on social media, pinning, tweeting, and Facebooking to beat the band.
- I have played a lot of Minecraft with my four-year-old.
- I have edited and sent photos to our relatives of recent excursions.
- I have edited my toddler's birth video. What? He's only 16 months old.
- I have organized blog shares and challenges on Facebook groups.
- I have interviewed the founder of BoardBooster, one of the Pinterest schedulers I was talking about earlier.
- I have cleaned the baseboards, wiped down table sides and legs, scrubbed the kitchen floor on my hands and knees, and thought about what else I want to deep clean. I am not a neat freak.
- I've figured out complicated ways to semi-automatically Tweet my archives.
- I have researched what headset will allow me to dictate writing into my phone as I walk.
- I have walked for a couple hours nearly every day.
- I have watched multiple documentaries about animals mistreated in captivity and wept bitter tears.
- I have read books about building my writer platform and querying literary agents.
- I have signed up for a WritersMarket.com account.
- I have considered author organizations and literary conferences.
- I have edited and posted a new video for our family YouTube channel.
- I've experimented with Facebook ads.
- I've fiddled with my newsletter email collector.
- I've brushed the cats. A lot.
- I have used dear old Pablo to make a bunch of writers' quotes into inspirational images to share, and scheduled their sharing.
- I've installed a new update of Quark so I can edit my ebooks.
- I've worked on my homeschooling ebook that needs a few edits before I can put it back up for publication.
- I've done our taxes.
- I have tried recoding all my blogs into responsive templates and gotten frustrated by the back end of it.
- I've brainstormed what I want my new logos to be.
- I've edited my About Me page.
- I've put up a new author photo.
- I wrote this post.
These are all worthy tasks. Strange that they became so urgent at the very time I'm supposed to be making headway on querying agents, hey? I think I might need to stop being so productive….
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