#1lineWed

[Katie-Ellen]

...On twitter.

I've seen it just now and I see folks here are doing it, but what IS it? Who is the audience?

 

[David Steele]

It's been started by @RWAKissofDeath , and it's more of a networking thing than something that's going to get you an agent. There's no "benefit" to doing it, other than getting followed by hordes of writers. It's AMAZING for attracting wannabe writers. Put up a #1LineWed tweet and watch those pretty numbers fly!

The good part of it is that you get lots of amateur writers re-tweeting your tweets and following you.

The bad part of it is that they are only re-tweeting your tweets and following you because they want to be re-tweeted and followed by you.

But that's not the best part! The best part is, for the rest of the week , you can look forward to endless notifications from Twitter telling you that "@CrazyCatLady369 has favorited a tweet you were mentioned in", as people send out twitter thank-yous crammed full of user names, and re-tweet all the messages with their names in them and favourite every instance of either or both for as long as physically possible. What fun! We all love notifications, don't we?

The nice thing about it though, is it's a great way to build up your "following" numbers, as long as you don't mind an audience that never pays any attention to anything you tweet.

Unless it has #1LineWed in it - in which case they'll re-tweet it with their dying breath.

>Removes tongue from cheek.

EDIT - Oh, every week has a theme. Last week it was coffee. The week before it was "Something from page 2 of your novel". Most people try to stick to the themes, but quite a few don't bother. They all get re-tweeted anyway, because nobody ever reads what they re-tweet as long as it's got the right hashtag. I proved this last week by tweeting "Fart in a bottle #1linewed" and THAT got re-tweeted.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Really? Not a useful writing exercise then, not like honing your elevator pitch or editing your page 70. Just a lot of noise?

 

[David Steele]

No, there was a point to those hashtags - they helped you develop editing skills or helped you find an agent. "noise" is the most apt description of this one.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

No, there's no real writing aspect to it, but I love #1lineWed. It's a chance to give others exposure to your work in progress or completed stories. Plus you get to see other people's WIPs, too.

 

[Jason Byrne]

And you know — it gives you a chance to fall in love with your won work all over again. Like, "oh yeah — that was a really damn good line! I can't wait to put that one out there!"

 

[Katie-Ellen]

I'm taking mine down, keep my powder dry and wait for the Houses.

 

[Jason Byrne]

I'm taking mine down, keep my powder dry and wait for the Houses.

Try a Glock, KTLN! I heard Tommy Lee Jones telling Robert Downey Jr. that they fire underwater. No more keeping powder dry.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Ooh, sounds useful.
I can use it in the bath to shoot......Damn, who can I shoot with it?
Wait. All I'll do is blow a hole in the bath.
*cancels Amazon order*

 

[Jason Byrne]

They have guns on Amazon?

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Sure. Why not. I bought a red light sabre on Amazon. Should have bought the blue.

 

[Jason Byrne]

Hahaha, I love this bit.
"You're Mr. Stevens?"