The Twittering Author
Click-through the above link for “The Twittering Author,” a little bit I wrote for The Lit Pub about poets who tweet (specifically, D.A. Powell and Arda Collins).
The particularity of a writer on Twitter: this is not People magazine’s best-dressed listor a dance competition, an improv comedy show or a submarine mission. These are words, the fodder and folly of writers and the element in which they should excel. We can only expect so much from Lindsay Lohan’s tweets, an update on her sobriety, at best. And, while, yes, Twitter was designed for just such exhilarating celebrity news, this social media is also a neatly crafted space for writers to test their wordsmithing skills. As for the metalsmith, the work becomes more difficult and more intricate with smaller objects.
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