I wasn’t going to do Twitter. Just like Facebook and Myspace (and WordPress and Blogspot…) and all those other social networking sites, I just wasn’t interested. I have a hard enough time visiting a site every day, much less writing to it. See, I do write every day. I’ve written some form of fiction nearly every single day for the past three years. It’s just what I do now, and I enjoy it. But writing personal stuff is just a lot harder, because I don’t think I’m at all interesting.
So, despite my misgivings, I joined Twitter and started following a few friends and an author or two (Hi J.A. Konrath! I stalk you at Twitter too!), not really expecting much but a link back from said friends.
This morning, I was informed that an author… a published author… an author I’ve read, even… has started following my Twitter. I hadn’t linked to her, nor did I seek her out. I almost fell off the chair. Why? What did I do that made her eyes turn in my direction?
I don’t know. I still don’t. But it really encouraged me to keep going, I’ll tell you that. So, after I did my little fan-girl *squee* and text messaged Deb, I Twittered a little and wrote this blog.
And now I’m over it.
(But not really. *squee!*)
http://twitter.com/stucuxi
leftywritey said,
March 9, 2009 at 10:42 pm
No surprise to me!
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Okay now, though — not interesting? That’s not true! Shy, maybe, but most of us writers, are. And that’s okay.
That’s what paper is for.
And to the author following this dear person, here — not only is she interesting and nice and a writer with a gift, she also has a big heart. : )
So there.
Em
Sotalia said,
March 12, 2009 at 12:01 am
Okay, I can totally agree with the shy thing. I am not the world’s most outgoing person. I’m getting better at that, though.
I will try to increase my interest in myself, too. Perhaps that’s a key to happiness?