My twitter account

[Jozanny]

My followers are down to 38. I am curious to see if I'll plummet into negative integers :p. A part of me cares; a part of me knows better, and there goes my sexual fantasies over journalists who earn six figures.

[MystyrMystyry]

Twitter's a great medium for haiku

[Jozanny]

Twitter's a great medium for haiku

:lol:

Actually though, this raises a serious issue. My numbers are low, most likely, because I've packed a few punches on my blog, and I do worry that this may one day hurt my writing career. It hasn't, yet, because I am not up to speed, but it could. People have lost jobs for writing much less than I have posted.

I could close my account, erase my so-called foot print, but if I do that I'm wiping out what gave me my original fan base in the first place. Writing publications tackle this issue all the time.

*Sigh*
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39. Up one notch again, and I am picking a fight with the young commedian who took ten years to produce her wee first little novel about a happy marriage. Why? Because I treated her as a colleague and then she changed her mind. You don't care? Good, but I hate it when prejudice hides behind propriety, I really do, and when I mean pick a fight, I'm going to publish about it. I have been going through this all my life with able bodied white women, always the crippled side kick who gets punted or patted.

I'm making a call to arms. (Huff.)

[Jozanny]

The second person in my last paragraph wasn't addressing you Mys :) More or less my invisible enemy that will eventually succeed in killing me off unless I very cleverly get off the grid and evade capture. I put those odds at about 85/15.

[SilentMute]

I don't know if a person should be particularly concerned when they lose followers. I joined recently to follow my favorite actress. I was surprised to get a few followers. I've lost two. However, I didn't know them at all--and when I looked at their profile, they were following 1-2,000 people. That doesn't seem to be a very selective type of person to me. I don't know if they are spammers or what. Twitter, of course, often suggests people who have similar interests to you--but I'm selective about who I follow. I looked up Brad Pitt out of curiosity--it is amazing how boring people in tabloid magazines can be. Several times he said, "All work and no play makes Brad a dull boy"...or something like that. I was thinking, "God! No wonder we make up stories about these people! They are so boring!"

[Jozanny]

I don't know if a person should be particularly concerned when they lose followers. I joined recently to follow my favorite actress. I was surprised to get a few followers. I've lost two. However, I didn't know them at all--and when I looked at their profile, they were following 1-2,000 people. That doesn't seem to be a very selective type of person to me. I don't know if they are spammers or what. Twitter, of course, often suggests people who have similar interests to you--but I'm selective about who I follow. I looked up Brad Pitt out of curiosity--it is amazing how boring people in tabloid magazines can be. Several times he said, "All work and no play makes Brad a dull boy"...or something like that. I was thinking, "God! No wonder we make up stories about these people! They are so boring!"

Perhaps it is symptomatic of an American shallowness, of which I'm not immune, in a broader sense, but as it pertains to me, specifically, people wonder why I bite the hand that feeds, and they do have a point, but if I can frame it in this context: Online access is about my only social structure.

I have no friends in this public housing unit, and it was unwise to get engaged with my ex, because he is more baggage; it would be difficult to move with no income and a credit rating that is analogous to a train wreck, and that said structure I derived from employment is moot. Trying to meet people at book stores isn't that easy, and the only pretense I have, in my internal construct, is to reconnect with the writing community and try to forgive myself for the past, and so this is what I tried to do, and yet, in the attempt to find new writing allies, it evidently wasn't good enough, even if I didn't go over the top.

I'm probably confusing you :), but maybe I can put it down to not knowing what is good enough to hold on to more mainstream established contacts without sacrificing my own voice, which for the intent of publishing, I am not willing to do.

In other words, it isn't twitter or community x, but creating the network I want that works best for me, keeping the paradigm I deserve, more or less. When I can recreate it, I won't be here so often :smash:

[SilentMute]

:confused: Yeah, I'm afraid I am confused. Anyway, I hope you find something that makes you happy. I don't know if Twitter really is good for anything except alleviating boredom. I don't know if you can really make friends when you are limited to 140 characters or less messages.

Some people have success in using their sharp tongue in the guise of a persona. I follow two people--Lord Voldemort and StewyGriffyJr--who often say rude things...but because you expect that from the characters they are pretending to be...you don't get offended.

Of course, I guess if you want to be yourself, that isn't an option.

[JCamilo]

I am thinking of creating my fake account, where I would post things I would not otherwise.

[Jozanny]

I want to be a player again Silent, that's all, and there is a difference between that, and the peanut gallery. By following me, this up and coming novelist acknowledged me as such, and she could stop following me, but she cut me, virtually, because I said too much the morning of the blizzard; it sticks in my craw, like my ejection from P&W when more established authors were regulars there. If I could find a network that offered me the appropriate access of supports so that I can get back to where I was, that's what I need-- similar to the HJ listserv gives me access to professional instructors, except that, I cannot invest in a terminal degree and any independent papers I might publish would be for my own labor.

LNF is, for what it is, tolerant -- but I need contacts that can open doors for me given my new limitations. Can't find that here; twitter has it, in varying degrees, but I may be too hard hitting. Writers are both competitors and peer support, one and the same, and I know the difference between the pros and the vanities. I was in the high end near midlist but that won't matter if I can't make new omelets, ok? It is a slight to get cut by a kid who was in grade school when I was publishing in England.

[Niamh]

I have a twitter and have ended up with a couple of random followers who had lots of follows and no followers so i blocked them. I have tweeted i'll block anyone I am unsure of and since then i've only gotten two more randoms, one i kept and followed because it was daily philosophy quotes.

[Jozanny]

After I reformat I will fix my lists. Taking on too many journalists so I can write secondary stories is a problem. Some of them tweet nothing useful. The same can be said for me, and I tend to think even Ebert could take a break from assuring his followers of his cultural relevance. I respect him, and he is a good teacher, but I do not always agree with him, or embrace the tempo of the public square as he believes he does.

I don't know though. My virtual life, real life, now leak into each other, and I know this happens to other people, but I'm old enough to find it a bit freaky, wondering if we'll all be suing each other eventually :lol:

I could just not type what I type, as well, there is that.