Typos and Twitter
There’s much talk in the general realm of the interwebs about how twitter can or cannot help you as an author. Let me tell you my story. I have been prompted to write three stories thanks to twitter, and I have sold two of those three. The sales, and the writing, were all due to indirect twitter interaction. I was not out there deliberately promoting my work. I was having conversations, and/or eavesdropping on other people’s conversations, and shit happened. (As it were.)
Your mileage may vary. Insane promotion may, or may not, work for you. This story isn’t really about the value of social media. It’s about the value of typos.
I committed a typo, and I shared it on a social media platform. People reacted. I was inspired. Said typo led to a story. Said story has now be published. Again, your mileage may vary.
The typo in question swapped psychopomps (a word) for psychopimps (not a word). It got me thinking about psychopomps specific to hookers. So, yeah.
But it became a serious story, which is now available in the current issue of Jabberwocky Magazine - a publication of which I’m particularly fond. These things may not have happened without the power of clumsy, typo-causing fingers, and twitter.
So let that be a lesson (or not) about the power of social media, and what it can (or cannot) do for you.
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