The Common Room
A space for TMI members to introduce yourselves, your projects, AND to tell me what you need to know about Instagram ❤️
Hello everyone!
And WELCOME to Too Much Instagram - the membership where you’ll learn how to find your readers and promote your work on Instagram in ways that respect your creative energy and protect your sanity!
If you want to know what’s happening LIVE this month then check out the latest Dates for Your Diary post here:
You will also find a handy directory of quick links to ALL of the exclusive content you have access to as a member of TMI on this post:
One of my favourite things about running this membership is being able to connect with so many writers in a meaningful, helpful way, but what I’d really like to do is facilitate ways for you to also connect with one another.
So, I’d like to try a thing - whether you’ve been here since the beginning of TMI, or have just joined, please would you comment below with:
Your name
An intro to your writing project(s)
Your Instagram handle (feel free to include an actual link to make it super-easy for people to find you) and/or a link to your Substack
Anything you’d like me to add to my planning for the future of this membership. Thanks to what you’ve shared with me so far in our weekly WHAT ARE YOU POSTING? chats, resources about hooks, trending audio, and Canva are coming in the next few weeks. So, please let me know in the comments if there is a particular aspect of showing up on Instagram you’re finding a challenge, whether it’s do with technical skills, or more around mindset?
Once you’ve left your own details, please also have a scroll through the comments to see if anyone is swimming in the same waters as you (which might offer an opportunity for future collaboration), or if there’s anyone who simply piques your interest and you’d like to support them further!
If you’d like to know more about me, you can have a read of my ABOUT page or check out this post 😊
Hi, I’m Jackie and I’m currently querying agents with my YA Dystopian Fantasy, SHE WHO DEFIES THE ORDER. It’s a coming-of-age story set in a reimagined Philippines about a young girl who’s desperate to belong but the odds are stacked against her. She must eventually decide who she really is: the ‘good’ girl who conforms to what the world expects of her, or the wild magician who isn’t afraid of using her outlawed powers to protect those she loves.
My Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/writerandhounds?igsh=NWR1ZTc3OWN0dDJ5&utm_source=qr
My main question is what should I be posting about as I’m in that limbo stage of not yet having a ‘finished’ product, but also wanting to maintain a profile while querying.
Hello I'm Wendy
I'm a poet, author and editor. My nature/landscape memoir, The Ghost Lake is published by Harper Collins and launches on August 15th, my new poetry collection Blackbird Singing at Dusk is published by Nine Arches press in November. I'm also founder and editor of a literary nature themed magazine, Spelt.
My instagram is https://www.instagram.com/wendycat1978/?hl=en wendycat1978
my substack is
Nots from the Margin -
https://wendypratt.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
I am struggling with focus on my instagram account. Because my work covers different genres, and my big project (the memoir) covers so many different areas (infertility, grief, baby death, being working class rural, archaeology, history, landscape, nature, ancestry, rootedness....) I can't find a way to present myself coherently. I THINK I'm getting better at it, but I still feel like I don't have a theme or a way of working. I'm actually much better when I just post things that interest me, but worry that that isn't drawing people to my account.
I have already spotted a couple of people I know here, who I think do so well on insta!