Twitter fiction. Why do we tweet?

 Bird whisper:

Twitter fiction means addiction.

 Haiku choice in  bird’s voice.

Twitter and Haiku. Two inventions. Why do we need them? Story, nature (birds), strict structure.

Haiku Japanese poems follow a certain organization (three lines, totaling 17 syllables). Twitter: not more than 140 characters. I am just thinking now: tweeting is what the birds do when they feel safe in the forest -they will only stop if they spot a threat! People, on the contrary, will set up a #TwitterRevolution.  Why do we tweet? It is handier for humans, I guess… Twitter has 200 million active users. Among these, some of them are preoccupied with #Twitterfiction. By the way, #twitterfiction has been first mentioned in 2008:

It means:

 I am still looking to see why people use Twitter:

Ruth Page, in her Twitter research says that “finding information from people you never met in the offline world is really attractive” (BBC Radio Leicester Interview, 2011). Andrew Fitzgerald says that it is attractive to use the social media, because Twitter allows “fictional characters [to] engage with the real world” (2013). My opinion is that the engagement is bidirectional: real world is immersed in virtual reality, and vice versa. However, both worlds are realities to me. Another reason: people  use Twitter because “we are still hungry for narrative. New mediums aren’t destroying fiction, they’re allowing us to innovate even more on how we create and consume our stories” (King, 2013). Isn’t it awesome that we can write haiku on Twitter?

Digital haiku tweet cuckoo.

Fictional birdie

Follows a tree.

References:

Andrew Fitzgerald (October 2013).Adventures in Twitter Fiction.Ted Talks. Retrieved from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ZzmqDMhi0

Rita J. King, (2013).How Twitter is Reshaping the Future of Storytelling.

Retrieved from: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682122/howtwitterisreshapingthefutureofstorytelling

Page, R. (2011). BBC Radio Leicester Interview with Ruth Page on her Twitter

Research. Retrieved from: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/ruthpage

Podcasting Tips & Tricks

Roscoe Considers Recording a Podcast by zoomar, on Flickr

Now that everyone has had their chance to create a podcast (their first.ever.) and reflect on its creation....here are some notes we might want to keep in mind for future podcasts or any narratives we craft. I found a few articles that were very helpful. Feel free to add in (in the comments) ones that you found helpful.

"We can all think of famous first lines in literature, lines that continue to resonate long after the novel has been put back on the shelf. The classic “Once upon a time…” may be considered cliché, but it does a lot of work in just four words:

• It lets the reader know that a story is at hand.

• It eases the way for suspending disbelief.

• It sets the story in a different place and time.

• It awakens curiosity and raises questions.

These are the kinds of things you want your own beginnings to accomplish."

"Open your story with the voice of a narrator we can instantly identify with, or one that relates things in a fresh way.

• “As I begin to tell this, it is the golden month of September in southwestern Ontario.” ~Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

• “I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.” ~Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants"

"A script should be invisible. When delivered, it shouldn't sound like a script. If it sounds like
a script, your program won't sound spontaneous and won't sound friendly to your audience.
The invisibility of your script depends on how it's written and how it's presented."

"And when we talk about active versus passive verbs, you’re talking about instead of having an action done to something, someone is doing an action. So where it would say, “The dog was kicked by that man,” it would be just a simple inversion: “The man kicked the dog.” So yeah, talking about Ernest Hemmingway, I just remember reading it, such a simple sentence structure. Basically it was just subject and verb.And I think that as far as we’re talking about, like ways to become better at this, is practicing writing that way. Simple sentence structure. Subject, verb."

Podcast by Peter Lakos, on Flickr