Jun 06
Last week, I explained the basics of setting up Twitter and understanding the general flow. Twitter isn’t much fun if you aren’t seeing activity on your feed. To see that activity, you have to follow people. Today, as promised, we will talk about a writer-centric approach (that can be tweaked for non-writers) to who to …
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Jun 03
Last week I told you I’d start this series on Twitter by talking about Twitter basics. If you have been using Twitter for a while, you might not think you’ll learn much from this post. I encourage you to stick around, though, because 1) you may well pick up on something you’ve missed so far, …
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May 30
I’m no Twitter expert, but I am a writer (unpaid as of yet, but a writer nonetheless). Like most writers, I have a day job. Mine just happens to be testing software. One thing I have learned testing software is this: you’ll only be a “new user” of an application once, and that’s a valuable …
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May 27
I gave C. Robert Cargill’s debut novel Dreams and Shadows three stars on Goodreads. According to the tooltip that appears when you hover your cursor over that middle star, that means I “liked it.” (Two stars means “it was ok,” and four means “really liked it”). In balance, taking into account its strengths and weaknesses, …
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May 21
My phone rang at 10:28 last night. It was my sister. “Oh, I’m sorry for calling so late,” she said. “I didn’t realize what time it was.” Because that’s who she is: the kind of person who worries about being rude even though she’s trying to find her way home down the few streets not …
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