We live increasingly in a Twitter world, and that is not a good thing for a writer whose world is words.
It astounds me to think that from the dawn of time up until six months ago there was no such thing as Twitter and now it is all but mandatory that every human on the face of the earth MUST put out 140-character bits of worthless nonsense in order to be considered "hip" or "with it" or "the bee's knees" or whatever the catchphrase-du-jour might be.
I've been a writer all my life, have 14 books in print (the 12-book Dick Hardesty Mystery series, the first book in the new Elliott Smith Mystery series, and the western/romance/adventure novel, Calico, with a total word count of roughly 1,078,000), with three more---one for each of the series, and a memoir---standing in the publisher's pipeline. Thus the very idea of limiting my thoughts to 140 characters boggles the mind.
But in the spirit of this wondrous new era in world history, I will state my purpose for this blog in Twitterese:
Me writer. You reader. Me want you.
See?...and I still have 105 characters left over.
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Looking forward to the movie. What will it be? Thirty seconds of profundity as only Dorien can deliver? I'll buy a small box of popcorn for that, just so there's none left when I leave in awe.
God forbid, twitter technology encourage a Neanderthal spirit from you, Dorien.
"Me writer. You reader. Me want you."Just add, "Ugh."
Go ahead, you have more than enough character(s).
I can see the Marquee now. CAVEMAN SPEAK: DORIEN GREY, NEVER BEFORE & NEVER AGAIN
Oh dear...
~Bryl
Me writer. You reader. Me want you. If it's true that you want readers, then bow down to Twitter. Before twitter my blog was getting 15 hits per week. After a month on titter I'm getting 30 to 50 per day, and that number is steadily growing. I have no idea how that will translate into book sales, but I know many more people are reading what I post.
Alan Chin,
http://alanchinwriter.blogspot.com
YAY! Glad you were able to post Dorien. Wow! You said this (Calico, with a total word count of roughly 1,078,000) is a rough count? That would take at least an eon for me to even get close t a third of the way through that many words, kiddo. You did a good blog.
Hi Jerry, I'm responding to the post you left on my blog, Alan Chin A Passage To Now. Sure I'll post on your blog. Just let me know when and how you want to go about it. I assume I email you a file and you post it?
You can email me at AlanHChin@aol.com.
Thanks for commenting on my blog and for following me.
alan
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