Using Twitter: Do You Have Tips?
After perusing this directory of publishing industry people on Twitter, I finally created a Twitter account for the Writer’s Digest community (@WritersDigest if you would like to follow, and @JaneFriedman…
After perusing this directory of publishing industry people on Twitter,
I finally created a Twitter account for the Writer's Digest community
(@WritersDigest if you would like to follow, and @JaneFriedman if you
would like to specifically follow me).
I have been quite lax in using
Twitter; right now I prefer Facebook and blogging. If I consistently and thoroughly followed everyone
I'm interested in (probably more than several hundred people), I sense it would be like drinking from a fire hose—and would I be
able to accomplish anything if distracted every 5-10 minutes by updates?
I wonder how both unpublished and published writers are using Twitter.
Do you have a Twitter account? Are you actively using it? And if so,
has it changed anything about your writing and publishing life? What
tips do you have for other writers?
Jane Friedman is a full-time entrepreneur (since 2014) and has 20 years of experience in the publishing industry. She is the co-founder of The Hot Sheet, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors, and is the former publisher of Writer’s Digest. In addition to being a columnist with Publishers Weekly and a professor with The Great Courses, Jane maintains an award-winning blog for writers at JaneFriedman.com. Jane’s newest book is The Business of Being a Writer (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
