Greetings all - some highlights from poetwist / twitter me this.

Some of these tweets are in response to my ‘twitter me this’ prompts, and some are not.

And remember, no judgmenty stuff from me. I’m not saying anything is good - or that it isn’t good.

I’m just saying the tweets I link to are particularly resonant for me.
I hope you like them too.

Enjoy!

fireland	ms_karen	lissawrites
twitter_poet	CitySelma	jadefrog
janiasea	Crenel	Quaskimodo
whypaisley	Quaskimodo	poetwist

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I’m going to be doing something new I think you may enjoy.

Starting today, I’m going to periodically do a post with links to some twitter posts (called ‘tweets’) that I fancy for one reason or another.

Some of these tweets will be in response to my ‘twitter me this’ prompts, and some will not. And I may well link to some of my own tweets now and then - once in a while I do actually like what I write

And you’ll get no judgmenty stuff from me. I’m not saying anything is good - or that it isn’t good. Frankly, I couldn’t define ‘good’ if you put a gun to my head.

I’m just saying the tweets I link to are particularly resonant for me. Maybe you’ll like some of them too.

<> a tweet from janaisea

<> a tweet from Quaskimodo

<> a tweet from CitySelma

<> a tweet from lissawrites

<> a tweet from poetwitter

<> a tweet from Ms_Karen

<> a tweet from midnightstories

I’m not going to do a consistent quantity of links, nor will I do these posts on any set schedule. But I’m finding a lot of writing on twitter very interesting, so it won’t be too long between treats.

If you liked what you saw in these links, check out more by the writers, and check out the other folks doing this kind of micro-writing on twitter.

140 definitely rocks…

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I’ve had an idea for using Twitter to do prompted writing for almost a year, and I’ve finally gotten it together. Many thanks to my friend & colleague JA for kicking my butt on this repeatedly over the last month.

Each day, Monday through Friday, I’m pulling a random word from the dictionary and posting it for writing responses.

You have 140 characters to put together a cogent piece of writing. Any kind of writing is fine of course, it just needs to make some sort of sense.

Working to such a tight character limit encourages every letter, space, and punctuation mark to really matter, to really be essential.

This is an excellent way to build writing muscle, vocabulary, and precise phrasing.

And I am having a heck of a good time with it, I must say.

You can read and participate via the following link. My screen name for this is poetwitter  poetwist and my real name (Kayt Hoch) is in my profile, as is my avatar.

Twitter is easy to sign up for and its free.

I hope to be twittering with you soon !

A couple of tips:

<<>> putting up your avatar or some image is really useful for people who are following you

<<>> the phone setup (if you want to update via your phone) requires your country code (without zeros) in front of your phone number for it to work right

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