Twitter versus facebook - a poem
Tweet tweet.
One hundred and forty characters, in which to share your thoughts.
Simple.
Succinct.
See something
Tweet about it,
Suddenly
It is shared across the world.
Status update
Everything from personal to professional to
Proof of how wonderful your friends are.
Photos of babies and rants about irresponsible dog owners
Virtual coffee mornings
With the occasional poke.
I love both twitter and facebook (especially since I can access them on my phone - helps me stay in touch with the world). The way I see it though, they aren't really in competition.
Twitter is where I share my thoughts.
Facebook is where I share my life.
Facebook is for the personal, for my close friends and family. Twitter is for everyone else. My tweets are there for all the world to see. My facebook profile is hidden behind walls of privacy settings.
Twitter is also linked to my professional identity. Me as a writer, a creative writing facilitator.
Facebook is personal. It's where I share my feelings about being a mum, among other things.
When I enter twitter, I am a slightly different person to the one that wanders around facebook.
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Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Friday, August 6, 2010
What I'm working on...
Yup, Friday again, time for an update.
Working hard on doing a piece of some sort every day for Folded Word 24/7.
Haven't done today's yet though.
Have done very little writing this week apart from those tasks though, so everything else is still in the pipeline.
I do have various ideas, but so far they're just vague scribbles in my bedside notebook. Maybe by next week, they'll start to be something more.
Published 2 twitter fictions today on twitter. Old ones. Here they are to save you the trouble of going to my twitter feed:
Working hard on doing a piece of some sort every day for Folded Word 24/7.
Haven't done today's yet though.
Have done very little writing this week apart from those tasks though, so everything else is still in the pipeline.
I do have various ideas, but so far they're just vague scribbles in my bedside notebook. Maybe by next week, they'll start to be something more.
Published 2 twitter fictions today on twitter. Old ones. Here they are to save you the trouble of going to my twitter feed:
1.
Turning. Ticking. Hands on the clock move. I stay still. if I move, they will see me. If they see me, I will die. I stay still.
2.
"Dead", she whispered. Whose death? I wondered. I stepped out of my hiding place. She didn't react. Didn't see me. Oh no. I'm dead?
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Writing Every Day
Writing every day is one of those things that writers are always told to do, in lists of things that writers should do if they want to be successful. Or good, for that matter, which as I'm sure you know, is frequently not the same thing at all.
I've never been particularly good at it. I get days when I write so much and so intensely that I forget to eat, that I would probably forget to breathe if it wasn't automatic. And then there are other days I can't write a thing - I could stare at the laptop or a page all day, and fail to get a single meaningful or otherwise word down.
All the same, I figured it was worth a try, at least once. So for the month of August (handy timing, as I'll be back to study in another month) I'm participating in 24/7 by Folded Word. The challenge is to write something every day. There are prompts which we can choose to use or ignore, and there are several types of writing:
-Twitter fiction (up to 140 characters)
-Micro fiction (40-100 words)
-Flash fiction (101-500 words)
-Twitter poetry (up to 140 characters)
-Prose poems (up to 100 words)
-Short poetry of any form (up to 8 lines).
So far I've written 2 micro fictions, 2 twitter fictions, and a twitter poem. As yet I haven't used any of the prompts, and my pieces have been pretty varied regarding genres. I may post some of them here at some stage, but not yet!
Now, to see if I can write anything else today...a twitfic is very short, after all!
I've never been particularly good at it. I get days when I write so much and so intensely that I forget to eat, that I would probably forget to breathe if it wasn't automatic. And then there are other days I can't write a thing - I could stare at the laptop or a page all day, and fail to get a single meaningful or otherwise word down.
All the same, I figured it was worth a try, at least once. So for the month of August (handy timing, as I'll be back to study in another month) I'm participating in 24/7 by Folded Word. The challenge is to write something every day. There are prompts which we can choose to use or ignore, and there are several types of writing:
-Twitter fiction (up to 140 characters)
-Micro fiction (40-100 words)
-Flash fiction (101-500 words)
-Twitter poetry (up to 140 characters)
-Prose poems (up to 100 words)
-Short poetry of any form (up to 8 lines).
So far I've written 2 micro fictions, 2 twitter fictions, and a twitter poem. As yet I haven't used any of the prompts, and my pieces have been pretty varied regarding genres. I may post some of them here at some stage, but not yet!
Now, to see if I can write anything else today...a twitfic is very short, after all!
Monday, July 5, 2010
Twitter fiction
One of my twitter stories was selected as the picfic of the week - click here to read it - it'll only take a few seconds, literally, as the story is less than 140 characters!
Always nice to get a little validation and if you're reading this because you got the link to the blog from picfic's twitter stream, welcome, thanks for stopping by and please have a read & comment!
Always nice to get a little validation and if you're reading this because you got the link to the blog from picfic's twitter stream, welcome, thanks for stopping by and please have a read & comment!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Twitter stories
I only heard about these on Saturday. They're stories the length of a twitter post (tweet? I'm still pretty new to twitter) - 140 characters (or fewer).
Apparently they're gaining in popularity. I tried writing a few and submitted them. Here are a few publishers:
@tweeththemeat
@thaumatrope
@nanoed
Let's see if they like what I sent them! In the meantime, I have two more 3000 word essays to write. Probably between ten and twenty thousand characters going in to each of them, so I suppose the chance to be so concise and succinct is a welcome one! :)
Apparently they're gaining in popularity. I tried writing a few and submitted them. Here are a few publishers:
@tweeththemeat
@thaumatrope
@nanoed
Let's see if they like what I sent them! In the meantime, I have two more 3000 word essays to write. Probably between ten and twenty thousand characters going in to each of them, so I suppose the chance to be so concise and succinct is a welcome one! :)
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