Guest Contributors / Smutlancer Life
by Quinn Rhodes · Published July 22, 2020 · Last modified November 23, 2020
Social media is a useful tool for all kinds of smutlancers from promotion to growing your audience to finding work — but it also as its downsides. Quinn Rhodes (ze/hir) shares hir experiences with the downsides of social media and how ze uses it for self-care.
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Self-care isn’t just the indulgent stuff we do when we’re stressed out (although I’m all for that). It’s also the way we take care of ourselves so we can do more of the stuff we want to do. Basically, adulting can make us more productive.
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by Kayla Lords · Published February 4, 2019 · Last modified July 23, 2020
A big thanks to Quinn Rhodes for her suggestion for a rapid-fire round of Ask the Smutlancer questions. If these are questions that have occurred to you, hopefully they’ll help you move forward. What do you do if your blog views drop dramatically? And, the follow up question, how do you keep from getting discouraged? The first thing is to look at your stats (either with Google Analytics or whatever plugin you use, like Jetpack). Where have the views dropped? Is it views from social media or views from search? Has every referral source dropped or just a few big...
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In this week’s episode, let’s start talking about a big and important topic — mental health, smutlancing, and trying to make the two work together. I’m not an expert, and I don’t know what you should do, but I feel like I’ve learned a few truths about my own mental health. And how to still go after my goals. Mostly, I want anyone listening to know they’re not alone and their mental health isn’t something to be ashamed of. Since this is such a big topic, no one should think this is the only conversation we’ll have about mental health...
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In this week’s episode, I talk about imposter syndrome and anxiety and about how our brains can make us believe things that aren’t true for a lot of other reasons. Mental illness is very real. I don’t offer solutions to every situation, only what’s worked for me in the past. Most importantly, I want to remind you and myself that we’re not alone and that others go through the worry, angst, and fear that our minds can put us through. In this episode: This week’s episode is brought to you by QuickBooks Self Employed. Imposter syndrome is not the same...
