Sharing Writing Information in Our Social Networking World

It's a new year and it's time to try some new things. Let's do Pinterest! Do you have an account that's gathering dust? Open it up, add a "writing board" and, starting this very minute, start pinning markets, great ideas, writer's block messages, rules you run across because you need to brush up on your grammar-whatever it is that you need-someone else will need.

We need to support one another in any way we're able. One thing I've learned since creating my first website in late 1996? Change and adaptation is constant in a writer's world (that's why I'm here on this blog, I was changing the coding I was learning so often, it took away from me writing-figure Google is here for a while, may as well let them do the hard work and let me do the crazy work).

Why Pinterest? 
Pinterest is MINIMAL. It's easy, it's fast, and when you need something again later, it's easier to find it there in your pins than to go through your history from last month. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of ways to organize all your information, BUT this is 2016 and what we did to maintain our ways last year and the year before are out the door. Pinterest is not new. But to use it for markets, especially, it's untapped. Let's tap that! Er... uh, you know what I mean.

If we all do this, even if just a few times a month, we would have this wealth of information all in one place. If you go to my Pinterest account (I get nothing for you clicking and checking it out or using my "pins"), scroll to the bottom and you'll see I have a board called Work 2 Write. I save book markets, article markets, grammar rules, writerly NEWS, publishing information, websites I think are worth looking at, and writing humor. 

If you pin and you have a board you'd like to share, please comment or send me a message via Pinterest and I'll share it. This is what we do; we are writers.

How to Add Pinterest to Your Browser Bar for One-Click Sharing
Personally and professionally, I use a MACBook computer. I also use Safari more than Google's Chrome and Firefox, though I sometimes utilize those... to keep things simple, here is the Pinterest LINK that will guide you in adding a Pinterest extension to your browser window using the type of computer you use and the browser you prefer.