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If you follow members of the writing community, odds are you’ve noticed #FollowFriday or #ff trending at the end of every workweek. The tradition started with a tweet from entrepreneur Micah Baldwin back in 2009 and, even though Twitter has grown exponentially and its landscape has changed dramatically over the last ten years, it’s still going strong.
In case you haven’t encountered it, #FollowFriday is precisely what it sounds like. Every Friday, individuals in the writing community (amongst others) tweet a list of people they think others should follow. It’s a good way to broaden your sense of the writing community and bring writers, readers, and publishers together. But #FollowFriday has become closely intertwined with #writerslift, which is dedicated to boosting writers with follower counts below a certain number. The combo is steering the community away from Baldwin’s founding intentions and putting an excessive amount of attention on a vanity metric that will have limited impact in the long-run. Read the full article at LitReactor. Writing can get pretty lonely. It’s just you, your imaginary friends, and a computer for hours on end. And no matter how often we talk about our WIPs over coffee or yell about them on Twitter, until we have something to show for all our blood, sweat, and tears the odds of us showing them to anyone are slim. So once we do finish a WIP it’s no surprise that we immediately want to show it to people and hear what they think. We want to know what they liked, where they were confused, and ultimately how we can improve this thing we’ve invested so much of our time and energy into.
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