Writing Topics on Twitter

AKA 140 Characters of Advice

How much writing advice can you really get in 140 characters? If you have professional authors and agents and editors and publishing houses tweeting … quite a bit, actually.

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You’ve probably heard of Twitter, the online social networking website where you say what you want in 140 characters (or less, but no more). Each person has their own page of tweets (mine is heidi2524). You can follow people, and they can follow you.

There is also the use of the hash (#) tag. This is used as a marker for a topic. You easily can view all the tweets that have been marked with that topic on a single web page.

There are several writing topics on Twitter where people will ask questions, tweet quotes, post answers, and generally have discussions related to writing. Some of them have a schedule, in that people agree to be online at a certain time so the conversations are as real-time as possible. If you read something interesting, you can then click on the username of the person posting, and decide if you want to follow them.

Here are some writing advice topics I follow on Twitter. These will open up in new browser windows because sometimes Twitter doesn’t like the search URLs to open in the same browser window.

• #askagent, #askawriter
• #writetip, #writchat, #WarriorWriter
• #pubtips, #pubtip
• #kidlit, #kidlitchat
• #writegoal, #wordathon,

People often post URLs as well, which lets you get a lot more writing advice than just 140 characters.

Stacy Goodyear: Do you have any advice for budding authors out there?
- Bones, “The Woman in the car”, 1.11

Sep 24, 2009

Tags: twitter

Categories: agents & editors & publishing | writing