1/19/2010

5 Signs Twitter Has Destroyed Your Writing

1. You use the shortest words possible – distilling your vocabulary to sprite-like verbiage (a phrase you would never us on twitter)


2. Compound sentence structure disappears; therefore there are no flowing poetic descriptions.


3. Characters begin talking in short less than 140 character, abbreviated, direct thoughts.


4. When discussing back story, sentences begin with RT @Character’sname and a quote from earlier in the text.


5. You spend time pondering how tweet shrink and url shorteners can be applied to the editing process.


Or, you find yourself writing a short, 5 part post in the affects of Twitter on Writing.

1 comment:

  1. Richard W Blakemore1/19/2010 9:36 PM

    UR absol. correct! IMHO, grammar has gone to the birds, BUT teens typing skills and imagination have inversely improved! Hmmm?

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