Because it's being applied to people who, being writers, often already shoulder enough doubt and fear, and it's being sold as "you're failing your book if you don't."
I think all the promotional possibilities are presented to writers this way, and that, yeah, it's a problem, and leads to lots and lots of insecurity. (To the point that I've heard writers struggling to sell their next book who haven't sold in a while express relief that at least they don't have to deal with all of today's promotional expectations.)
I never know what to say when folks ask how I find the time to blog. In some sense I've been living online for a couple decades, and while I've modified what I share a little as I've become a writer, mostly I still do it for the same reason I did it then--because it's fun. Yet more and more there's this notion that it's an obligation--or even that one is being "good" by blogging regularly--and I don't know quite what to make of that.
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Date: 2008-02-24 05:16 pm (UTC)I think all the promotional possibilities are presented to writers this way, and that, yeah, it's a problem, and leads to lots and lots of insecurity. (To the point that I've heard writers struggling to sell their next book who haven't sold in a while express relief that at least they don't have to deal with all of today's promotional expectations.)
I never know what to say when folks ask how I find the time to blog. In some sense I've been living online for a couple decades, and while I've modified what I share a little as I've become a writer, mostly I still do it for the same reason I did it then--because it's fun. Yet more and more there's this notion that it's an obligation--or even that one is being "good" by blogging regularly--and I don't know quite what to make of that.