Tweeting on Twitter

by Laura Lai/ Uncategorized

Long time no see? It’s been one month break from blogging! It was an August staycation with a precise do to list. With lots (I mean lots) of discipline, I succeeded in ticking almost everything on my list: I learned new things, I read new things, and I also started tweeting – well, not properly, but figuratively, of course!

When? Who?  Since August 2020, I’m also @LaiWriter.

How?            I found a good tutorial on the way to use Twitter (watch here). Then I followed a short tutorial on the proper use of #hashtags on Twitter. Specialists recommend the use of a maximum of two hashtags, expressed in one word, and if there are several words together, to use capital letters for each word (watch here).

 

Why?     My main reason for starting ‘tweeting’ was my wish to meet the #WritingCommunity and those squeezing their minds to participate in the #FuriousFiction contest of the Australian Writers’ Centre. Bytheway, the criteria for the month of August were 500-word funny text containing the following words: dizzy, exotic, lumpy, tiny, twisted, and the word ‘sandwich’. It was an unusual lovely feeling to be alone in front of the computer, but, in the same time, to know that in those 55 hours many great writers are doing their best to answer the challenge and the fun of this monthly writing contest. Despite pandemic restrictions, the month of August was full of emotions: I’ve watched authors opening boxes with their delivered books, I’ve read from authors, who have published their books, I celebrated #InternationalDogDay and I tried to answer the best I could interesting questions and polls.

 

What…      do I tweet? I try to bring the best input I can to the followers and the #CreativeCommunity. I tweet great articles I find on arts in general and writing, in particular; I tweet great political achievements and cartoons; and I tweet great environmental concerns. And when any of my manuscripts are published or self-publish, I’ll let people joining me in enjoying the news.

 

Where…        did I subscribe? I follow mainly writers, as well as film festivals, the White House (because whatever happens in the US impacts the entire globalized world), and I sweeten the sour taste of politics following two great chefs: the #cakeboss Buddy Valastro and Paul Hollywood. Valastro’s cakes are pure art and with Paul Hollywood, the cuisine is not only a creative (practical) field, but a creative science (about the air inside a dough or the way to arrange a dough so that it grows vertically not horizontally, etc.).

 

If the month of August were a bit longer, I would have finished learning to photoshop, but it is just yesterday that I started to learn some tricks. I need to photoshop some pictures for a picture book series project I recently started and enjoyed far more than I expected. After writing a (political) play that is objective and realistic, I write a children’s book to find myself in a true fantasy world, but now, after the last play, I found myself in a short series of pictures books! J