Posted by: Billy Hollis on Monday, January 12, 2009 I can think of a few bloggers and commenters who really need this seminar, featuring advice such as: “Re-embrace Your Inner Critic.” Using advanced transference techniques, you will pretend to read your work to the most discouraging person you know.... You will learn to love them all as they do their best to keep you from typing out another word.The latest Internet writing malady described in the seminar syllabus is Twitteritis. I checked out Twitter about six months ago, reading a number of posts by folks with whom I'm acquainted. Then I established my own Twitter feed, based on my perception of the value of Twitter. The feed is named "thisispointless". Everything posted there is intentionally pointless, with no value I can perceive except occasional humor. And the amazing thing is that I have over 160 followers. Most of them are computer geeks, and I'm not sure exactly what that means. However, I do think Twitter can be valuable to a particular class of writer: the Bloviators. You know, those writers who can't seem to tell you that they got out of bed without writing five paragraphs about it. With Twitter, you are restricted to only 140 characters per post. Assuming you can learn to be both coherent and grammatical in that length, it's a great tool for learning conciseness. (Found via GeekPress) ** Update 11:00 CST ** Apparently there is an entire university devoted to this discipline. |
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