Comments on: See if I don’t

By: theguru42

theguru42 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:18:01 +0000

You are saying what I've been thinking for way to long. However the addiction to twitter is not something I could hold off to finish writing something. My hope is that when I die someone will put my puzzle together and it will make them happy.

By: vmarinelli

vmarinelli — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:22:45 +0000

I am just now gathering that there will be a show! Planning on following along closely. You go, girl.

By: sflovestory

sflovestory — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:04:48 +0000

It's important to note, I think, that you utilize Twitter as much as you play on it. I find it an effective tool to write poem-pieces while I'm running around, especially on public transit. And yes, I go through my tweets and cull some stuff into workable writing later. I didn't want this to be a big "In Defense of Twitter" comment, but it's nice to have that 140-character limited "voice" just as much as it's important to lock yourself up and write long swaths of memoir. They're all experiments with the same end-goal, no?

Mostly, I'm glad you're back. I was counting on you for tomorrow's "show".

xoxo

By: Square One / Oral fixation (not that kind, pervs)

Square One / Oral fixation (not that kind, pervs) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:47:14 +0000

[...] that I’m a few days into serious work on a story (notes toward which may be found here), I find myself reverting to an old habit: breaking up the intensity by jumping up every so often, [...]

By: vmarinelli

vmarinelli — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:05:44 +0000

AS IF I could go clean for very long. Ha, you have a rich imagination my dear. (I'm so close to breaking my little Twitter promise you have no idea.)

Anyway, as it turns out I picked a rather huge story to write, requiring lots of research, correspondence, digging through old journals and pictures, etc. (Which is kind of challenging considering my office is in chaos, everything mostly still in boxes, from the move.) So I might have to make some sort of compromise – e.g. after I reach such and such word count, I can let myself tweet and read tweets again.

Especially given that half my process right now is waiting on replies to correspondence from some of the principal characters… GODDAMN, why can't I just write fiction?! *wails*

Anyway, as soon as I'm back in tweetland, yours will be some of the first tweets I attempt to catch up on.

By: nezua

nezua — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:00:33 +0000

i guess if you purposely use it for taking those sorts of notes, then it would be a kind of rough sketch pad for bigger ideas. i havent, but i'm going to try that thought out.

but you wont even know how it works WILL you?? cuz you wont BE there. on that cozy, happy, hip room of Twitterdom. you'll be all Drugstore Cowboy “oooh i've gone clean now i dont DO twitter anymore”

By: nezua

nezua — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:57:52 +0000

i may have missed that last tweet…was wondering where you went actually. but it must be nice to be able to write without a limit on how ma

By: vmarinelli

vmarinelli — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:21:43 +0000

Eeep! 10,000 – how is that even possible? I guess I feel slightly better now.

By: Abby

Abby — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:17:28 +0000

My 12-year-old brother (also on unlimited text) sent/received 10,000 last month. Literally don't know how he did it. He doesn't even have something like Twitter to blame.

PS Thanks for the nod!

By: vmarinelli

vmarinelli — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:42:09 +0000

I like to think the sum of our Twittered fragments adds up to something pretty real, and facilitates necessary connections. I think too if you go back through what you've posted on Twitter you may find those sorts of fragments that you might otherwise never have articulated, which can be rewoven into other forms as needed.

If I'm wrong though, I am so fucked.