Over the past week or so I've been devoting a lot more time and energy on my Twitter posts than I have been on these blogs. I've been spending time publishing a short story in snippets on Twitter (#shortstory or #thescarf). I initially did it to relieve the frustration of waiting for magazine articles I've written to be published. It accomplished that, but there were other unforeseen benefits. It's made me more sensitive to the impact of each sentence as a stand-alone unit. It's also made me more aware of the length and nuance of words. In some tweets I had to make sure I used shorter words that still carried an impact in order to stay within the 140 character limit. I'm also better at identifying superfluous words in sentences now. I think I will tweeterise another story soon.
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
The neglected sibling
Over the past week or so I've been devoting a lot more time and energy on my Twitter posts than I have been on these blogs. I've been spending time publishing a short story in snippets on Twitter (#shortstory or #thescarf). I initially did it to relieve the frustration of waiting for magazine articles I've written to be published. It accomplished that, but there were other unforeseen benefits. It's made me more sensitive to the impact of each sentence as a stand-alone unit. It's also made me more aware of the length and nuance of words. In some tweets I had to make sure I used shorter words that still carried an impact in order to stay within the 140 character limit. I'm also better at identifying superfluous words in sentences now. I think I will tweeterise another story soon.
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