Tweet, Tweet.
I have become a serial Tweeter. Don’t believe people when they say it is a time waster. Certainly, as a writer, it lends itself to what we call a displacement activity, but the wealth of information that can be passed in 140 characters or less is amazing.
Now that I am finally getting to grips with the ‘netiquette’, I’m hoping my new Twitter friends and acquaintances can see that I’m neither a crazy, obsessive stalker or that I take the kind ‘follows’ for granted. Every time I receive notification that someone new is following my tweets, I smile – how lovely it feels to know people are interested in what I have to say. It’s the same with my blog, and so you know, I do not take any one of you for granted. I appreciate every visit.
I am following some cracking Tweeters, who never fail to make me laugh and are very happy to engage in friendly banter. Others I follow are very generous with their time and expertise and point me in the ‘write’ direction or give me spot-onPhoenixadvice.
The amount of information that has been tweeted and retweeted this week has been phenomenal with regard to writing and publishing and Wednesday was undoubtedly the highlight of the week, when the Society of Authors held a tweetathon to bring to the nation’s attention, the plight of the short story.
An author from the Society tweeted the first line of what was to be a five line and therefore, short story, with Tweeters providing the next four lines. The best submission of each section was added to the story, ultimately producing a 670 character story.
It was fantastic fun and will be running for the next four Wednesdays. Take a look at #soatale and join in. Help increase the popularity of the short story.
This week, I was like a sponge, soaking up all the information I could, to the tag line; the world is my moisture. If you’ve not ventured into the world of Twitter, it is worth a look, but try not to let it distract you from, well, life.
I can be found as @Laura_E_James.
Comments:
newwriter:
9/18/2011 10:13:27 AM
Twitter.
You’re not wrong Laura it’s amazing what you can learn from few short lines. But as you say it can be addictive, 3am I got to bed the other night and that was just following links. I never tweeted a single word.