Wow - I used the #WritingCommunity hashtag on a poem and got bombarded with fake βbestselling authorsβ wanting to quiz me about my work and profits. I could feel them winding up for the sales pitch - high-dollar marketing and rebranding that promises the moon and delivers nothing - so started blocking. Blocked one and got messaged by a related account. And BTW, itβs offensive to comment with sales pitches on someoneβs creative writing post.
WTF, guys? What do yβall real writers think? Disappointed to see this in the Fediverse, but I guess itβs inevitableβ¦
Wow - I used the #WritingCommunity hashtag on a poem and got bombarded with fake βbestselling authorsβ wanting to quiz me about my work and profits. I could feel them winding up for the sales pitch - high-dollar marketing and rebranding that promises the moon and delivers nothing - so started blocking. Blocked one and got messaged by a related account. And BTW, itβs offensive to comment with sales pitches on someoneβs creative writing post.
WTF, guys? What do yβall real writers think? Disappointed to see this in the Fediverse, but I guess itβs inevitableβ¦
If you forget for a moment, a fractured bliss of displacement, itβs livening breath upon flame and you burn a fraction brighter when taking again to the night.
Elizabeth Eiler
