Why I hate “this is my gift to you” tactic. Why A Free Gift Is Sleazy Marketing Because when you are a stranger to me, a gift is a tatic of manipulation. TAKE THIS IT’S FREE MY STRANGER HAHA SUCKS to be you, know you owe me. As someone who is […]
Author: Vanessa Smith
What I Did On My Summer Poorcaytion
I have grand plans for publishing in 2020. So far 2020 has had other plans for me, including injury, injury, injury, reinjury, infection, infection, and side effect from infection drugs. All in all it’s safe to say I keep pushing plans back, and then back, and then back. Gotta let yourself heal if you can. […]
Book Review: We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
Full confession: I have no idea how I came across We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. I know I got it from a library, but I have no idea why. I had the call numbers written all of these “serious” books on creativity and minds and thinking and business and being a genius and […]
The Curse of a Generous Heart (Also, Burnout)
A podcast I was listening to said something about burnout being the result of having a generous heart. That people with a generous heart want to help someone else. The Curse of a Generous Heart (Also, Burnout) Then my brain flipped it on its head. What happens to selfish people? Do they […]
What Is a Link Up?
Link up is a term that isn’t widely used outside of blogging. Think of it as online networking. A nice, friendly mingle. What Is a Link Up? A link up generally has one person, or a group of people who host it. This means that the posts are on their blog, and you […]
Randoms 19
Randoms 19 Chasing me around the internet with retargeting feels like chasing me screaming. It’s not wise and it doesn’t make me buy from you. It makes me dislike you. Muchly dislike you. I had something secret I wanted to release today but yeah, downtime is more important. So it didn’t get done. […]
Book Review: Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
I was trawling my local library catalogue before the Christmas holidays, looking for books to reserve. Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA jumped out at me purely because it’s so Other to me. I would never make it as an undercover agent. I tweet far too much. Life Undercover: Coming of Age […]
Change Is Happening
It’s time… things are a-changing. Change Is Happening This has been a long time coming with lots of stops, starts and bureaucracy in the way and delaying things, but I have resigned from my permanent job. At time of the publication of this post, I have three working days left. Resigning from […]
Professional Development for Bloggers
Professional Development for Bloggers As much as I love the online world, I think one the hardest things is the lack of support and professional development. Even for those of us with lovely blogging and business friends to call on for support, there is still a sense of isolation that is different to other industries. […]
Creation, Value and Output
I was not in attendance at Disrupted Festival, but a particular tweet caught my eye: Juliet Rogers #disruptedfestival says everyone does NOT have a book in them. This thought devalues what our true writers are doing. @statelibrarywa pic.twitter.com/ss8ubjjSGz — Kylie Howarth (@kylie_howarth) July 27, 2019 I’m not sure I see it as […]