Does Marketing Kill Your Desire to Write?
Originally, I started this Blog as a place to share my love my of writing and reading. As I pursued publishing avenues other writers, friends and people in the industry kept telling me what I should blog and how I should achieve optimal marketing potential. Back in 2012 (the height of my writing career) I blogged everything, not worrying about the content, in hopes of reaching marketing goals. Then in 2013 things slowed. I became depressed about not reaching as many people as I had thought I should. The same happened in 2014 to 2015. I just couldn’t understand how my blogging about my writing and sharing author interviews only counted for around 50 or hits. It was ease to become disillusioned, thinking all this wonderful advice I had received was pointless. No one cared what I was writing. They didn’t care about if I blogged or not. Hell, even I had begun to hate writing. Also, during this time my husband was diagnosed with combat PTSD and depression, which didn’t help. Betwe...