Blogocide by Twitter…
Happy Spring!
Unless you’re my blog. Because I think Twitter is killing this blog. I spend all my”Hey, I was just thinking ’bout sumpin!” energy over on Twitter. Then I pour my “serious sit down and write” energy into my WIP. Then I do some laundry and make dinner, and meanwhile, there are tumbleweeds over at this poor old blog…
But that makes me sad. I’ve been blogging forever. FOREVER! It feels that way, at any rate. I’ve been blogging ever since Sarah and I got home from SXSW in spring of 2001. I’m sad to let go of it.
Blogging has been a huge part of my publishing life, and a huge part of my community life for the last decade. It pulled me out of a pretty hard year, once upon a time… I can’t imagine NOT being a blogger…
But is there anyone who reads this blog who doesn’t follow me on Twitter or Facebok? Anyone who really checks in with me this way? I wonder…
Still, while I’m here, I should catch you up a little! Life is busy, as usual.
I’ve been hard at work on BREADBOX (the magical middle grade novel about seagulls, divorce, Atlanta, Baltimore, and a red breadbox), and I think it’s going well. I’ve also been tweaking some Jewishy picture books, a few of them actually publishable (more on that later). I’ve also been writing a few OpEd type things for various places (check your Boston Globe this Sunday if you’d like a reason to get mad at me).
In more personal news, we’re teetering on the edge of a big decision at our house. For six years we’ve been in Atlanta, but for the most part we’ve been assuming we’d move home “soon”–either to Iowa or to Maryland, or at least closer to one of them. This has kept us in a kind of stasis . Not wanting to invest too much energy in the house, etc. We haven’t fully rooted ourselves. Now we’re thinking about doing just that. Rooting. Blooming where we happen to have been planted. More on that soon. If it all works out!
What else to say? It’s spring in the south. Things are beginning to pink and yellow and green up here in Georgia. The kids are great. Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day, so we Jewishy-Irishy types went out for the best corned beef & cabbage I’ve ever eaten in ATL (thank you, Kirkwood Public House!) Passover is coming, and I’ll be heading to Baltimore and New York after that, for BEA and a super important wedding. Life is sweet.
How are you?
March 18th, 2010 at 6:36 am
I do! I don’t like Facebook – have a token account there but never use it and don’t use twitter. At least post your book news here pretty please? So I can put your books on the pre-preorder list? (-:)
March 18th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Me. I check your blog everyday. Am disappointed but not disheartened the blogs lately have been few and far between, but I still check. How else would I have “met” Lucy and “see” for myself the current growth of Mose and Lew. Don’t make me move to Atlanta!
March 18th, 2010 at 8:29 am
I haven’t started using Twitter. I suppose I will, though part of me thinks if I haven’t started, I should just wait a little longer for What’s Next. Regardless of whether I’m on there or not, I know YOU have things to say that require way more than 140 characters, so put me on that at-least list. Do people go back and read old Twitter posts the way they go back and read old blog posts?
March 18th, 2010 at 11:51 am
This is how I find you; I’ve sworn off Twitter (for now) and use Facebook mostly for non-writing friends & family. Personally, I find blog posts–even short ones–so much more substantive and engaging that Tweets or Status Updates.
At the end of the day, you know where your writing resources are most needed. We all understand that. But I’d be sorry to see this blog wither away. At least, until you move to Baltimore and I might actually get to see you in person!
Thanks,
Sandra Beasley
in Washington, DC
March 20th, 2010 at 10:15 am
I’ve been writing about FB and Twitter usurping blogs for months now. My blog gets much less traffic now, but things are going strong at Facebook and Twitter. It’s definitely something to discuss at an upcoming panel you may or may not be on.
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t get twitter. I mainly use it for links back to longer entries on blogs. It’s too limiting, and I still can’t follow those @ signs! (am I showing my age?) I find it so valuable to be able to follow writers on their blogs — but the whole updating this does take time away from other parts of life!
March 23rd, 2010 at 3:33 pm
I like the blog. Keep the blog.
March 24th, 2010 at 6:02 am
I’m right in there with Grandma Rocky.
We need the blog!
We don’t want to have to move to Atlanta!
May 19th, 2010 at 8:46 am
Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t get twitter. I mainly use it for links back to longer entries on blogs. It’s too limiting, and I still can’t follow those @ signs! (am I showing my age?) I find it so valuable to be able to follow writers on their blogs — but the whole updating this does take time away from other parts of life!