I've often said I don't use Twitter because my first thought is rarely my best thought and the temptation to just blurt stuff out might grab me, but I did finally sign up for a Twitter account. Really, I did it so I could enter DreamHost's contest. All the things I thought would annoy me...do. But I'm not overly tempted to post things. I did post these two sentences, though:
1) Who needs football when there are PUPPIES??
2) Book culture isn't the only thing dying slowly and painfully.
I follow very few other twitterers, though I suppose that could change. Here are a couple tweets I read over the week.
1) Why an octopus is more awesome than your mom
2) Valentines for kids with very big hearts: Get downloadable valentines on @coolmompicks http://bit.ly/avkSYd give to charity at the same time
I hope you were more productive than I was this week! So tell me, did you read anything? Write anything? Let me know where to find your writing and I'll update the blog periodically throughout the day.
- Mason Canyon's two sentences are included in her introduction to her guest blogger Ogo Akubue-Ogbata
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Twitter is difficult for me to understand. I'm there, but I'm not sure I really am. :)
I'm reading "Buying Time" by Pamela Samuels Young. It's been an interesting book. Here are two sentences from it:
"Angela entered the small conference room and mentally took roll. Two members of the task force were missing."
As for my two sentences, check out my blog - http://www.masoncanyon.blogspot.com
where I'm introducing guest blogger Ogo Ogbata.
Should I or shouldn't I move to Twitter? Heck, I opened a Facebook almost two months ago and have added nothing.
But I like your two and I checked the link to the dying music. More sad news indeed.
Aside from working on my workshop presentation, I haven't done much writing. Mostly dealing with moving in a couple of weeks. For a change of pace, I've been reading historicals: Karin Tabke's "Master" series and Karen Hawkins' MacLeans.
I was "encouraged" to join Twitter, but I don't do much with it.
I know exactly what you mean, Mason. I'm not always really sure I am there, either. What's "Buying There" about?
David, it took me a long time to finally make an account on Twitter. I'm still not sure it's a worthwhile enterprise, but for the moment I figure it allows me to look in on people even if I don't Tweet myself.
I am the worst Twitterer, but I do enjoy reading the updates from several people, like our own Kathy, who are active contributors. I consume from Twitter, and tend to contribute elsewhere.
Here are two I technically wrote from this week:
In each of my journals, I chance secreting one, lucid note, and pray for its discovery. After the many deities and demons my father has supplicated, who I should pray to has become a thorny question, but Nature herself must be offended.
I mean "to whom"
I'm late to the Tuesday Twosome discussion, but here goes:
I'm proud of you, Laura, for joining Twitter; I know you've had reluctance to join. As you and my blogmates already know, I'm a huge fan of Twitter, and I couldn't imagine my life without it. It is such an information-sharing venue, among writers, editors, agents, publishers, book reviewers, bloggers, and many, many more. I've developed many contacts via Twitter, in a way I would never have had the opportunity otherwise.
For aspiring writers, it's a must.
There's no better way to learn Twitter than to join and start tweeting. Don't know what to tweet? Share some of your favorite quotes - the ones that mean the most to you.
Google some articles on whom to follow in certain categories. Then "mine" their lists. See whom they are following; you can add them to your list on the spot. If you prefer, visit a writer's Twitter page, and see if they've developed a list; you can follow their list, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I have lists for writers, editors, agents, lit mags & journals, etc. When you follow a list, the name of the list simply joins your list on the right side of the page, and you can check it when the mood strikes.
More benefits: chats scheduled by different groups, such as agents, memoir writers, kidlit, etc. It's a chance to ask questions or add to the live discussion. It's done via a hashtag, so that all the comments for that discussion are lined up. And, you can drive traffic to your blog providing a link (get to know the URL shorteners).
One tip: Keep your tweets short to promote others re-tweeting your messages; if they have 10,000 followers, let's say, your message just went out to that many more followers!
I will step away from my Twitter soapbox!
On to two (well, three...) sentences I read this week, from "Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page" by Lynn Freed:
"No one...should doubt the wisdom of Joan Didion's warning that writers are always selling somebody out."
"...in his study, on the page, the writer must, as Graham Greene said, have a sliver of ice in his heart. More than this even, he must have the heart of an assasin."
Two that I wrote:
Several months after our split, my ex-fiancee called me to say: "I can't find anyone like you. Let's get married, buy a house, settle down and have children."
"I'm about to start a new life -- I'm waiting to join the police academy," I said.
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