Friday, September 3, 2010

Blurt

Twitter paralyzes my brain. I can't handle the limits of 140 characters to express something awesome. I would retweet and get all linky, but the things I would retweet are from my friends, who are already on Twitter, and they're all friends with each other, so there's no point.

I'm overthinking Twitter, I know. I basically lurk, following the agents I'm interested in and some friends and publishing people. You should definately follow me. "Kelly_Bryson" Because I will not be bothering you much, but when I do, it will be scintillating.

Facebook is a little better, but I wonder did I say too much, was I too bland, too many updates, not enough updates to feel connected?

The blog is a lot more comfortable to me, though. Have I mentioned lately how much I adore your comments?

The kids are back in school, and with that comes the infamous parent-child notebook. I try to make it fun and interesting for the kids, but I hold back a little. You know, the teacher might read it and think I'm a nutball, or something. She might not want me to volunteer for field trips anymore.

I didn't hold back last week. I wrote all kinds of craziness to my Lou-lou about what privileges the special student should have, like getting to go to the moon, getting a baby monkey that she can teach sign language to, whatever popped in my head.

My Lou-lou wrote back to me yesterday and told me I was funny. We're going to get some vocab flash cards, and I'm going to keep trying until she tells me I'm scintillating. Maybe I can do this.

How do you feel about the social media part of being a writer? Where are you comfortable?

6 comments:

  1. Kelly, this whole post put a smile on my face. I definitely want to hear about it when Lou-lou uses the word scintillating for the first time:)

    And to answer your question, I don't Facebook or tweet. I've thought about starting (Twitter, at least - still don't have much more than a shred of interest in Facebook), but I keep holding back. I figure I shouldn't start until I'm positive it's something I want to do.

    I love blogging, though:)

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  2. Hey Krista- I've been on Twitter for a week or so, mostly to follow the agents I'm stalking. Sometimes theyt'll post things about where they are in their query pile, etc. that I can't get anywhere else. I don't intend to be terribly active with it. I do like FB, though.

    I think the think to remember is that building online relationships takes time, and that's okay. And we don't have to do everything. But I would totally be your friend on FB:)

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  3. I'm holding off on Twitter until I actually start querying. I don't need one more distraction right now, and I think I'd really like it. I love blogging.

    I love that you write fun stuff in the notebooks. My kids have planners. Is it like that?

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  4. They're friendly letter journals, complete with salutation, date, body, closing, etc. It's kindof neat to have these letters at the end of the year.

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  5. Twitter is great BECAUSE of the challenge. It's a world-wide, public constrained writing workshop.

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  6. Ha- I should have known you would champion Twitter, Jeff. You and your haikus;)

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