I've always wanted to write a novel. I've started a few but could never get past the 20K mark due to that cursed inner editor. This time NaNoWriMo helped me silence it and I've been doing well.
At the moment, I'm most of the way through the first revision stage and I'm going through the manuscript and ruthlessly chopping out wordy passages or rewriting them to be sleek, streamlined bits of text.
And it came to me. This is exactly what I do when I'm trying to write a particularly juicy tweet for Twitter*.
Twitter gives me just 140 characters to say what I mean (less if I want it to be re-tweeted easily). So, I've found that I'm becoming very economical with my words, but hopefully in a very clear way (because I don't like l33t speak and prefer to use whole words).
And I'm finding this translating to my writing. I'm finding it easier and easier to pick up places where I just didn't need to say that and cut accordingly.
So, Twitter is good training for a wannabe novelist. Who woulda thunk it?
* But not when I'm blogging. I find I add extra words in when I blog, just to sound chatty. It is good for the discipline of writing something every day though.
5 comments:
very interesting indeed.
i dont understand what tweeting is, but concise sentences are something I need to work on.
very interesting.
Twitter seemed COMPLETELY pointless to me until I started using it.
Check out http://twitter.com/individualchic for my tweet.
Be warned. This can be an addictive, massive waste of time. Just saying. ^_^
Husband gets tweets now, so he informed me yesterday.
I do NOT need another time suck. NO, I don't.
So I shall resist the temptation to even look at it.
But, I think the little birdie graphics on the side bars of peoples blogs are really cute. Little blue birds of happiness. They tempt me, just cause I want the birdie. How lame is that? (wait, don't answer that!)
Happy Weekend!
The power, the power!!! Tweet with the blue birdy, tweeeeetttt
You enabler! ;o)
Trying to take me to the dark side. But I am still resisting.
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