tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397215857857031145.post4935303163052969389..comments2024-02-22T03:02:13.715-06:00Comments on Say What?: Me. Off the record.JESSJORDANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915521022827231804noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397215857857031145.post-83693624729450758542009-05-17T19:46:00.000-05:002009-05-17T19:46:00.000-05:00Twitter seems strange in the beginning. My first ...Twitter seems strange in the beginning. My first ever 'tweet' was the answer to 'what are you doing?' and I wrote "Peering at Twitter. O.O" because I had honestly no idea what the devil to do with it. I'd created an account in order to follow a friend of mine, and some friends of hers, while they were at a writing retreat in Ireland, and had something of a 'group-twitter' in order to keep up with what was going on.<br /><br />A month later, I discovered that two favourite actors of mine (Dan Radcliffe and Tom Felton, of <I>Harry Potter</I> fame as Harry and Draco, respectively) are also on Twitter, and I immediately rushed off to find them and follow them, and from there followed some bands/singers that I was 'into' at the time, and it just exploded all over the place. I'm following a great deal of YA authors, my favourite historical romance author, and some agents/editors. And now I'm utterly addicted. Technically I've been on twitter for two months (I wrote 'two month twitterversary' on my desk calendar, on the tenth) but I've only been using it for one, and I've already got over three hundred updates, not to mention that it's a fantastic way to keep up with friends. <br /><br />I don't know that I knew you were an author-hopeful yourself. I would dearly love to hear more about your YA book, and your journey towards discovering that part of yourself. <br /><br />And you should be dubbed 'The Inspirator' because you've just inspired a new blog post of my own in me. I also didn't know you had taken part in the Secret Agent contest. Which number was yours? Another friend of mine (marynoel here on blogspot/blogger) tried to enter hers, but didn't make it past the lottery. She's written an absolutely FABULOUS sports-fiction trilogy, something I never thought I'd be interested in until I heard about hers. I spent most of last night helping her modify her query letter for it, and if I do say so myself, I helped a lot. I hereby offer you any services I may render of similar nature to you. I absolutely LOVE hearing about other people who write/are trying to get published. It gives me hope for my own self. (In the, I know this person, and they're doing it, so if they are, I can too, way, and not the way I thought of when I think of Twilight, which amounts to something like, "well if they'll buy THAT crap, they're almost guaranteed to like anything I can put out.")<br /><br />I'm really hoping to hear more from you on the subject of your novel, and of course, I'm wishing you lots of luck with it. <3Korihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11608071085947734931noreply@blogger.com