a tale of two twitties

Yes, read that blog title carefully. I had the strange need to voice my concerns (start a shit storm) about two different companies on Twitter these past few days: First Watch Restaurant and Dell Computers. Let’s compare and contrast the responses I got from these hive minds, shall we? The lovely @CarmenNodar joined @JennBailey, @HTBeers, [...]

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kansas scbwi is all a-twitter

We are so frickin’ lucky in this SCBWI region of ours, called Kansas. I live in Kansas City, Missouri, but the Missouri hub of activity is in St. Louis. The Kansas hub of activity is in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. YES OVERLAND PARK IS A SUBURB OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI AND [...]

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old spice guy says hello to the ladies

You’ve seen this guy: Great advertising campaign, right? Baby, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Sunday night I was editing the Never-Ending Sunflower Scoop, like I usually do. I tend to get punchy whimsical around about then, and I tweeted this: A frazzled woman having a little fun, okay? So my Twitter-buddy, Kelly Fineman tweets back: [...]

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welcome to my nightmare

Some day, I will write a novel about the most frightening species in the rogue’s gallery of monsters, mutants and deviants: The Doll. I have always DESPISED dolls, from my earliest memories. They are like, totally creepazoid. They look at you with those dead soulless eyes, like they’re planning something. Waiting for you to fall [...]

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what jung has to say on jung

My Twitter faux-nemesis, Mike Jung, posted a blog about the difference between his virtual-temperament and walking-around-self.  Writers are encouraged to have a large on-line presence these days, and the bigger the personality, the better. You could say that Mike projects a rather *ahem* large personality on Twitter. Yet he claims that if you meet him [...]

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hearing your own voice

It took me a while to find my voice.  In writing, I mean.  Let’s not go all melodramatic.  People hate that. I’m in the gooey middle of an experiment called Tweet Mystery of Death.  It’s a 6-week “play” of sorts on Twitter.  A critique buddy of mine identified the character I play without my telling [...]

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write this way

For me, every Friday is Write With Your Friends Day.  Maybe not as productive as my solitary writing days, but oh, so much more fun.  And necessary to keep me from boarding the Grand Funk Railroad. Our day starts in a college library, where we don’t have interweb access. This is good. And we have [...]

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last stab at procrastination

Speak to me, Twitter. Three e-mail accounts, silent. No choice left.  Must write.

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i’m all a-twitter

Non sequitur–a statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it. Twitter–one unending string of non sequiturs. I love non sequiturs. The kind that make your teens say,  “That’s so random.” I have dozens of buttons on my sun visor in my 14-year-old van known as “Old Blue”.  Someday I will sing you the [...]

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