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THE SHIT IS HARD, GUYS

For Those of You on Flipboard, WTF???

I’m not an idiot, but I feel like one

Sherry McGuinn

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I hardly know where to start here, but someone, anyone, I could use an assist.

Quite a while ago, I created an account on Flipboard, and is my wont, didn’t do diddly with it. My buddy Linda Kowalchek recently touted the platform as a good way to promote my work and she’s right, I believe, albeit the only thing I’ve promoted thus far is my stupidity. That said, Flipboard does seem to be the most convoluted, effed-up place for getting your ass set up.

Magazines. Okay, I created one called Killer Screenwriter, like my publication here. By the way, I registered as a “Creator,” as opposed to a “Publisher,” which is a whole other pain in the ass.

My stories are organized in my magazine more or less the way I want them and after days of back and forth, editing my settings, changing my user name, blah, blah, blah, and today, finally, I felt pretty good about what I’d achieved and tried sharing my profile. First on Twitter, but of course that didn’t work because dumbass as I am, I forgot that the rich twit won’t allow such sharing, anymore.

Then I tried Facebook. I simply copied and pasted my magazine’s URL and instead of a preview of that, it previewed the…

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Sherry McGuinn
Sherry McGuinn

Written by Sherry McGuinn

Long-time writer and big-time dreamer. Screenwriter. Cat mama. Red lip aficionado. sherrymcguinn@gmail.com

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