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Two Twitter Trending Topic Poems

April 30, 2010
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On the Twitter homepage, users can see Twitter’s 10 trending topics. These can include the most popular hashtags or the most widely-tweeted words and phrases. The top 10 trending topics are constantly changing, and they can be organized by specific location or worldwide. I decided to write two 10-line poems to honor the topics.

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10 Haikus Dedicated to Twitter Spam

April 16, 2010
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Twitter spam is so special that it should be honored with poetry. Spam includes: barely-legal webcam girls, social media gurus, people that promise I can become rich in just one month, people who follow then unfollow me, weight-loss and fitness programs, and accounts promising free merchandise.

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Shades of Electronic Publication

April 14, 2010
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I wonder how often literary magazines and publishing companies have to tackle this issue. I think a social-media savvy publisher should encourage writers to share work on their blogs because blogging is a grassroots marketing tool, a way to get readers interested. If the writing is good, the readers will buy the books, no matter what.

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10 Ways Social Media Crashed the Conference

April 12, 2010
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When I attended last year’s conference, I was interested in how many people supported print and still believe in it as a medium. This year, I wanted to pay more attention to the ways that publishers, writers, and literary magazines/journals are using technology and social media to expand and promote their brands.

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Tweeting from the 2010 AWP Conference

April 8, 2010
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I am in Denver, CO, attending the annual conference and bookfair for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. When I attended last year’s conference in Chicago, I could hardly believe how many people still support and believe in print as a medium, despite all the hype about print’s impending death.

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5 Ways Social Media Has Made Me a Better Writer

March 30, 2010
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Social networking tools have definitely helped me improve my writing. If you truly want to improve your writing for all media, you will use every opportunity to improve your craft. To provide clear and clever content, you should shake what your momma gave ya (whether that be 140 characters, infinite space of a blog post, or a sexy booty).

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Zen and the Art of Blogging

March 19, 2010
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Creative writing demands a different frame of mind than article writing, research paper drafting, and blogging do. But that doesn’t mean someone who does one can’t do the other! The place where you start is just a place to start, and then you work out from that point. The process is not necessarily linear.

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Fact, Not Fiction, for the First Time in Years

March 8, 2010
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I promised myself that, upon my return from San Francisco, I would throw even more of my heart and my soul into my side projects, which means blogging here every day, reviving Too Shy to Stop (we already have three new articles scheduled for publication!), and tackling the revision process for “The Prescribed Burn”, my fiction manuscript.

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And Then the Creative Class Spontaneously Combusted

February 25, 2010
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According to science fiction writer Gwyneth Jones, the company as a digital publisher is now getting “…unprecedented access to billions of tiny payments, for product that costs them effectively nothing, at their point of entry. This seems to mean they don’t have to worry about any form of resistance at all…”.

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