Guest author, Alisha Rai

Viv writes:

Alisha’s first book at Samhain released around the same time mine did, so we’re kinda publishing sisters.

She’s got a new one out now, Cabin Fever.

Product Warnings:  Contains a convenient snowstorm that throws together two wounded characters who happen to be wildly attracted to each other, a drool-worthy hero, a shotgun-toting heroine, mattress sex, shower sex, couch sex, armchair sex, some light bondage, and a really good cup of hot cocoa.

Alisha:

I have a Twitter account. Occasionally, I get an email telling me someone is following me on it. I then commence feeling really really really bad, because I have never in my life tweeted a single thing. I’m still not quite sure how tweeting works, and why there are @ and # symbols all over the place.

You see, when I started writing, I was given some good advice to go reserve my name everywhere so I wouldn’t have to worry about a domain name or blog address or whatnot. With grand plans of promo, I decided to reserve a Twitter account as well.

Unfortunately, Twitter scares the pants off of me. Because, I know, once I break the seal and tweet something…I will never, ever stop.

As a master procrastinator, I feel as though the internet is one giant conspiracy to keep me from doing anything productive with myself. My current top favorite time sucks?

1)    E-mail. I have three e-mail addresses, for work, personal, and writing (alishawrites@gmail.com). It’s not e-mail reading that takes me so long, it’s the writing back. I’m wordy. As an aside, I do love hearing from readers. I consider that to be motivation, not procrastination.

2)    Facebook (www.facebook.com/alisharai). I get shaky if I don’t “like” something at least once a day.

3)    Blog reader. Why is it that reading about other people’s lives is so fascinating? Of course, I can justify some of them as industry blogs and therefore “critical” to my writing career, but I also like to visit cooking blogs, knitting blogs…sigh, too many to list.

4)    Hulu. Nuff said.

There are many other things like YouTube, etc., that I stick under the label of general tomfoolery. So, you see, I am extremely susceptible to the shiny that is the internet, and I fear Twitter’s hold on me if I give it a chance.

Of course, I could always just cancel my internet and do nothing but work…but then I think you’d find me curled whimpering in a corner somewhere. And that’s really not cool.

So what are your top time wasters?