I was listening to a group of authors discuss how challenging social media can be.
The cruelty of strangers.
The negativity of reviews.
The relentless challenge of the masses.
My advice is simple:
If social media is hard because people are mean – and they can be really mean – STOP LOOKING.
Place your content online—an Instagram post, Facebook update, blog post, YouTube video, or TikTok thingy—and walk away. Make your point, plug your book, speak your peace, say your stuff, and then make some new stuff.
Real stuff.
Leave that ethereal, impermanent, flimsy, forgettable world behind. Ignore the comments that commenters have already forgotten. Spurn the criticism that the critics can’t remember writing.
Protect your soul.
Be kind to yourself.
Stop looking.
To hell with the monsters.
