Hey friends - I’m Seth Werkheiser, and I’m trying to help creative folk ditch social media and continue to thrive in a post-algorithm world.
I don’t usually post twice in one week, but here we are.
Today I’ve got a quick video for you about an email I like, this time from a band called Wargasm UK. If you don’t wanna watch, there’s a transcription provided above.
Don’t worry - even if you’re not a fiery rock act you can still get something from this video above - watch it, learn something from it (hopefully).
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“Social media distracted me, where I didn’t have the focus to be able to focus long enough on the work … social media was too distracting, where it constantly interrupted me and didn’t allow me to get to that place where I’m in the zone.”
Illustrator Samantha Cotterill from Can I Delete My Social Media?
“I have one piece of advice: if you read a book you love, tell other people about it. Tell them face-to-face. In your groupchat. On social media. Even on Goodreads. Every book is a lottery ticket, but the bezzlers are buying their tickets by the case: every time you tell someone about a book you loved (and even better, why you loved it), you buy a writer another ticket.”
From Cory Doctorow
“While author platform is important, I think new writers are particularly vulnerable to getting the order of operations wrong.
The author platform follows the work. Not the other way around.
Notably, none of the authors I admire had particularly robust social media platforms before they became successful.”
Mirella Stoyanova from ‘Author Platform Follows the Work’
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AN EMAIL I LIKE: A MODERN DAY CRUCIFIXION OF MAJOR LABELS