Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Dec 09 2009
Catching attention
The Inbox for my email program is crammed full with sales and commercial offerings this time of year. Sometimes I read them, but often I delete them unread, even though I may have asked to be on their email list. The flood of offers for one-cost shipping and 2-days-only sales shows me that none of them realizes that most of us get hundreds of these types of communications in November and December. The feeling of being overwhelmed by taunts to buy more "stuff" gives me new appreciation for those tired souls who have to wade through pile after pile of queries in the publishing world. It also makes me think about what leads me to open a commercial email instead of marking it for deletion in a big group of other sales letters. Maybe I can learn something valuable for presenting the highlights of my own writing. I do know that I'd like this whole frantic scene to be lengthened a bit. It would take me an extra two weeks each year just to read and click through all those commercial emails, much less actually order anything once I get to their merchandise-laden web sites.
posted at: 09:14 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
The Inbox for my email program is crammed full with sales and commercial offerings this time of year. Sometimes I read them, but often I delete them unread, even though I may have asked to be on their email list. The flood of offers for one-cost shipping and 2-days-only sales shows me that none of them realizes that most of us get hundreds of these types of communications in November and December. The feeling of being overwhelmed by taunts to buy more "stuff" gives me new appreciation for those tired souls who have to wade through pile after pile of queries in the publishing world. It also makes me think about what leads me to open a commercial email instead of marking it for deletion in a big group of other sales letters. Maybe I can learn something valuable for presenting the highlights of my own writing. I do know that I'd like this whole frantic scene to be lengthened a bit. It would take me an extra two weeks each year just to read and click through all those commercial emails, much less actually order anything once I get to their merchandise-laden web sites.
posted at: 09:14 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
