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 *Day two of being consistent*

       So here we are on day two where I nearly lost my faith in this whole daily blog thing. HAH! I said nearly. Then Alexa said "Lauren, have you done something for your business today? You won't get to the next level by watching TV." Now, full disclosure I told her to tell me this but the amount of shade in her little robotic voice as I am watching Dexter just . . . yeah. 

    I feel accomplished though. I cleaned my house - moms you know the day after holidays is just . . . ugh why?!? Worked for my regular paying job (deadlines for payroll since I'm off tomorrow)while listening to It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover on audible, and then took a minute to watch an episode before I hopped online to do my author stuff. 

    The reason I nearly lost faith was because . . . I thought, oh my God, what the heck am I going to write about? 

<insert panic gif here> 

    With that said I decided to tell you about my successes yesterday! I wrote 1241 words in my work in progress, Chasing Fireflies. I posted a bunch on social media. I recommended my novels to people. I tweeted! (Yes -tweeting is newish to me since I never was too good at Twitter) I'm looking forward to learning tips for PitMad. It's this thing where you pitch your novel in a tweet and if it's hearted by an agent or publisher they will sponsor you or mentor you or publish you. Something like that - like I said, still learning about it. I gained some new Twitter followers - YaY! 

    @LTisdaleAuthor in case you wanna follow 😁😉

    I am definitely looking forward to writing more on my work in progress since it's still pretty fresh in my mind. I wasn't quite tired so I read a bit before bed. "How to write better right now," which is the current self-improvement book I am reading. 

    So now that you're all caught up on that, let's segway into the next topic - followers.

       How do some people have thousands? And how do you keep them? Where do they find them? It's like an elusive thing. Although, I did compare my 2019/2020 stats to my 2021 stats (by stats I mean followers) and they did grow. Not exactly as I wanted but hey, learning process. 

    I also used to be soooo worried about constantly talking about my writing and my books on Facebook. I was terrified I'd sound like a broken record. But the thing about 2022 - is I'm going into this year ready to clap and cheer for others - so why should I discount my own? Don't I deserve to be cheered on too? It was wrong of me to think I didn't deserve it when I constantly cheer others on.

    We can't be constantly celebrating others' successes and hear crickets when we have our own to share. I'm leaving that crap in 2021. I'm looking for my tribe - authors, friends, readers - all who wanna cheer me on and keep me accountable. If that's you - we should totally be connected. 

    I had someone message me yesterday that they were reading my book and couldn't put it down. You have NO IDEA how that felt. It was like someone just said to me "You're a fantastic writer, please keep going." By no means do I promise that my books will be perfect, or up to par with the high standards of Nick Sparks *who has editors that cost thousands* but I can promise you that I will help you escape reality for a little while and introduce you to characters that make you laugh, cry, or . . . get angry. I still have readers mad at me for some characters who they hated or loved and I killed 😂😅😆

    I am so excited to see where this year takes me and my career. I think in some ways, we're all looking for fortune and fame - I'd be lying if I didn't say that sounded appealing. But more than that, I want to touch others with my words. I want to give them something they can't stop talking about. I want to be the author everyone on social media is celebrating and cheering on. I just wanna be someone's favorite author. (A lot of someones hahah) 

    😃😃😃So, now it's time to go finish today's goals. Here we go . . . 


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