Hey kids, are we all staring down our laptops and asking ourselves if it has always been this hard? Jennie and I were fantasizing that maybe it was somehow easier back when you didn’t have to affirmatively decide not to pop into social media and hear what everyone else is thinking and doing and achieving (or at least announcing—because even when we mean well, we aren’t always our ugliest selves on there, now are we?).
We could be that now, though, couldn’t we? Let’s imagine ourselves as Elusive Offline Chic Writer (EOCW for short) shall we? What does EOCW do?
The thing about EOCW is, she’s not living her life online. Maybe she posts (she probably has fans, after all) but what people REALLY want from EOCW is her next book, and that’s what EOCW wants from herself, too. Not just any old next book, either, but a next book that’s even more HER than her last book, even more what she wants from herself and what her readers hope for, even if they couldn’t describe it. They’re counting on EOCW to give that to them.
HOW? That (minus the EOCW, which is a genius thing I came up with just now) is what Jennie and I talk about it our super-secret, behind-the-scenes, we’re pretending no one is listening chat that you CAN listen to, but only if you support the pod, which you can do by hitting this button right here.
Meanwhile what’s our EOCW up to?…
