I hear you. It can be frustrating at times, and I certainly have no magic formula. I do know the one thing that has helped me is to embrace the knowledge that I can control what I write, how I write it, what I decide to publish and when. After that, it's out of my hands. I'm okay with that, most days anyway.
I hear you. It can be frustrating at times, and I certainly have no magic formula. I do know the one thing that has helped me is to embrace the knowledge that I can control what I write, how I write it, what I decide to publish and when. After that, it's out of my hands. I'm okay with that, most days anyway.
As far as commenting, I understand that we can't afford to subscribe to everything (I'm retired with fixed $), but still, I've found lots of pubs where the comments are open to anyone, paid or free or not even subscribed at all.
One of my ways of doing things is to bookmark publications that I may like, check them out, drop a comment, etc. Test the waters, so to speak. I don't want my email overloaded.
I'm getting off topic a bit, but I wanted to let you know that I too see the gush over how was your weekend type of thing and let out a sigh. People go for what others have already gone for. I wish it were different, and I wish a platform existed that didn't heavily promote this type of behavior, but if such a place exists, I don't know it.
I hear you. It can be frustrating at times, and I certainly have no magic formula. I do know the one thing that has helped me is to embrace the knowledge that I can control what I write, how I write it, what I decide to publish and when. After that, it's out of my hands. I'm okay with that, most days anyway.
As far as commenting, I understand that we can't afford to subscribe to everything (I'm retired with fixed $), but still, I've found lots of pubs where the comments are open to anyone, paid or free or not even subscribed at all.
One of my ways of doing things is to bookmark publications that I may like, check them out, drop a comment, etc. Test the waters, so to speak. I don't want my email overloaded.
I'm getting off topic a bit, but I wanted to let you know that I too see the gush over how was your weekend type of thing and let out a sigh. People go for what others have already gone for. I wish it were different, and I wish a platform existed that didn't heavily promote this type of behavior, but if such a place exists, I don't know it.