Tayari's Blog: Let Us Tweet!

Posted by TayariJones on July 28, 2008 08:50 AM
Filed under The Writing Life

I've had my Twitter account for about a year or so, but haven't really figured out what to do with it. For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, it's a website where you can enter a couple lines of text. The prompt question is What Are You Doing? I could sort of see how it was a neat idea, but then I couldn't quite get the point. Everyone in the blogosphere was into Twitter for a while, but the whole thing felt a little bit pet-rock, if you know what I mean.

But for the last couple of days, I have been updating my twitter with the progress I am making on my writing. I put it over there and not here on the blog because everyone in our blog community isn't writing a novel and it's hard to imagine that people would be all that interested to know that I wrote so much today I had to refill my inkpen. (Although this was a happy little milestone.)

Then I had the idea that any of us that want to, should use twitter to track our progress. We can all be twitter friends and send encouragement, and just to sort of keep each other going. You can tweet anything you want-- word count, problems you meet along the way, celebrations when you finish a chapter, a poem, a stanza, whatever!

Here's my twitter page. Feel free to "follow" and I will add you and I'll follow you back! (Get started with Twitter here.)

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Comment #1, by james3neal [TypeKey Profile Page]

It's good to see you on Twitter, Tayari. The community there is great. I hope you acquire many "followers". On the literary tip there was someone named @kuntak who was trying to "tweet" the entire text of Alex Haley's Roots. Alas the person seems to have given up after only a few weeks. Oh well happy tweeting!

July 28, 2008 07:09 PM

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