Twitters and double entendres

[erastes]

Can someone explain Twitter to me? I don't get it. Why go to all the hassle of creating an LJ post, putting a link to Twitter only to quote one sentence and a link which only leads to that sentence repeated? Why not just post one sentence on your LJ and have done? Odd, very odd. Wish there was someway I could filter all the Twit posts out.

As to the novel, I'm having a crisis of Double Entendres.  First of all I notice that one of the MCs is called Smallwood, and yanno - that's can't be good. Then the novel name itself is causing me problems. It's the name of a real place on Dartmoor, Hangingstone Hill, but all I can think of now is double entendres.  I'll have to hunt around Dartmoor again and see if I can find something else. GAH!! Why can't I just put ALL place names and character names as [XXXXX] and let someone else fill in the bloody blanks.

Although perhaps I should stop stressing and go with the precedent my previous novels, and have names that explain the character. A big gothic thingy needs big gothic names.

shutting up now.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Other names to use other than Smallwood:

Cass
Roskin
Dersingham
Carson
Musgrave
Wymond
Fletcher
Preston
Fox
Pierce
Amberley
Wentworth

I don't think there's any need to change the name of the location. I'm not hearing any double entendres. (Of course, I also know of a street called Hang Dog Lane and a town called Devil's Hopyard.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hmm - I'm liking Wymond!

Hangingstone... well, perhaps you need to be English, but all I can think of is stones as in testicles... dangling...

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

I don't understand Twitter, either, but I'm hearing more and more that it's a great way of networking if you're a writer.

Can't help you on the name thing, but if you were to write a satire, let me say that it's damned fun coming up with funny names for your characters. (I've got dibs on Julius Frick Bickering-Ayers, or "Frickers")

[erastes.livejournal.com]

T'is annoying forsooth. If I went posting one liners on my LJ I'd expect someone to thump me. It's the same as the annoying Facebook where people put "Julie is picking her nose" and then two seconds later "Julie is answering the phone"

ARGH!

I love Frickers! Or you could call him Frickling? "I say, do you like Frickling?" "I don't know, I've never Frickled"

Yes yes, the old ones are the best...

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I think the Twittering is a complete waste of time.

It lives of being immediate. Collected in an LJ post, it's not immediate. What a waste. I wish people'd stop that.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nod nod. I think I'm just evolving in Grumpy Old Bat.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

See the problem with Smallwood. How about Littlejohn? Tinyhampton? Weenypart?

I'm so helpful...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I would expect nothing less. *frowns*

Petitbois!!!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I don't understand Twitter and it almost scared me... it's something that automatic generates blog post? but it's not a way that lead to nothing of meaningful? Mah... Elisa

[adriannebrennan.livejournal.com]

Nope, LoudTwitter is a separate program that posts to lj for you. It's not part of Twitter functionality.

[adriannebrennan.livejournal.com]

Twitter is a whole separate program where you can keep up with people's updates and chat with them. It's sorta like the Facebook's wall except as its own app.

People will cc their updates to lj for the same reason why some (like myself) make Wordpress post to lj--saves all of that time of the copy/paste.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I understand cc'ing a blogpost, but I suppose I don't understand the "I like crumpets" or "Watching paint dry" sentences that people like to post. As I said, I don't really get FB either, just too old now, I think. *grabs quill*

[shiawmeimei.livejournal.com]

LOL on the double entendres. My first gay romance novel was originally titled Endless Darkness. Then I realized how authors shorten their titles to initials. So I had "ED" for a gay romance novel. All I could think of was "erectile dysfunction". Needless to say, the novel is now called The Cost of Eternity.

The things that plague authors...people just don't understand that sometimes the voices aren't a good thing. *cackle*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I would never have spotted E.D. as an achronym! *laughs* Could be worse, could have been Vastly Dark or something.

You are right. Waking up in the middle of the night and worrying about "Hangingstone Hill" is not the action of a sane person...(but then I was also worried about my virtual Roman troops in Travian, so I think that clinches it for the "sane"

[storm-grant.livejournal.com]

I've been tweeting for a week now, and so far it's fun, but I can see the novelty wearing off quite quickly.

The only friends I can find are people who already read my lj and I'd like to think that I can be interesting for more than 140 characters.

Someone said in my lj post of last week on the same topic that it's great for celebrities. I get that. People want to follow an actor's or a writer's or a President's ever move, they can, although I suspect it takes all of the fun out of being a stalker. As a marketing tool, I'm not seeing it yet.

It gets a few more days and then I'm wandering away. There's too much else to be done, like, er, um, answering your email of last week. Oops.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see how a Sleb would find it accessible - but then they probably have their minions making stuff up for them anyway. It's like last words - "I can't go like this! Tell them I said something!"

Can't see Sir Eltie sitting down and complaining about his scalp itching.

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

Lol, love the Smallwood!! Maybe it would sound better in some other language? Or just call him Little Richard!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Petitbois? What is it in Italian?

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

My husband was crushed when, after trying Twitter for a bit to please him, I deleted my account; he thinks it's the coolest thing ever (this is also the man who streams a live cam from work and publishes his location online by virtue of connectivity with his iPhone). I don't think it's necessary for strangers (anyone, actually) to know my every thought the moment I have one, or to be able to track or monitor me, either. He gets bent out of shape when I call him to find out what he's up to now because "Twitter could answer that question."

I just keep telling him that his web tools and iPhone "functionality" might seem cool to him, but to me, they're just layers of separation from true communication, and I'm not about to sacrifice real conversation with my spouse because of his love of geekery. I trump geekery, thank you very much!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*laughs at the thought of your marriage being held together by Twitter*!!!

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

I sorta like twitter. Sometimes I have things in my head that I want to post, but I don't want to make an entire blogpost out of it. Besides, I don't use LJ to blog...I use it because it's my journal and I want to have a record of things to go back and read--which I guess is what a journal is. So I make brief posts on twitter, and read my husband's and my sister's, because I actually don't get to see them much (we live in the same house but have very conflicting schedules!). Loudtwitter ports the little posts to LJ for me, so it's not like I'm going to any extra effort of having both at the same time.

Plus, I LOVE the various celebs who use twitter. Especially Stephen Fry, John Hodgeman, and Wil Wheaton. They crack me up.

I don't really get Facebook or MySpace. I tried both at different points, but eh. I'm sure they are great tools for networking and reaching readers, but I can't be bothered. At least with using Twitter and loudtwitter, I can be sure that something is posted to my LJ and jamiecraigbooks every day--though I don't rely on it for all my content, of course, lol.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I get such feelings of split personality when I see you refer to Jamie Craig! :D

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Here's to big gothic thingies! :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

And he can't have a big gothic thingy with a name like Smallwood....

Or it'll turn into some kind of Bob Hope farce.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Names are so important. They have to feel right. If Smallwood feels right for your man why change it? Presumably he'll prove at some point that he has no problem in that department.

Looking forward to reading your big gothic thingy.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Heh. Perhaps I can make that a point. "not small wood at all, Mr Smallwood..."

[aunty_marion]

I could just about see using Twitter if the mobile phone is your main way of keeping in touch with people; and tweeting to LJ if the people you'd like to keep in touch with don't use Twitter on *their* mobile phones would then follow. But honestly, I don't rely on my mobile that much. I use it for essential calls, and quick texts to friends to find out where/when we're meeting, or to say thanks for dinner, to say I've got home safe, etc, at 10p a time instead of whatever a phone call would cost. Twitter would cost me the same as a text and why would I want to tell everyone I know that sort of thing? My Facebook status gets updated maybe once a day (well, sometimes). If I can be bothered.

So, Mr Smallwood has a Big Gothic Thingy, does he? I think we might need proof of that...

Can't see anything wrong with Hangingstone Hill, unless you make a joke about it in the novel! I mean, I see there *is* a double entendre available, but it wouldn't have occurred to me unless pointed out, I think.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

But then, don't these fancy modern phones have texting? I'm like tharain, I just want a phone to - yanno - make CALLS on, in an emergency!

Trust me to point out the Hangingstone entendre, no-one would have noticed before,,,,

[ggymeta.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Twits are not journal entries. :/ They are moments you take on the web, our in the car, or where ever you are, and just add a sentence of thought or talk about what you're doing next. You're mostly talking to yourself--but I find that many creative types do use it to pimp [which I hate if its constant!] and network.

It's not there for you to actually interact with others - though you can. It's just about posting the occasional bullet point of your day - which most folks would consider 'f-list' spamming on LJ.

:)

I LOVE MY TWITTER! ^_^v

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think I'm just too old. :( And probably don't have an interesting enough life anymore...

[melspenser.livejournal.com]

Twitter is stupid. My friend Mike forced me to get on it last July. We both lasted one week. There is a person on facebook that 'twitters' to her facebook. It's on my personal account. I'm about ready to delete her. I mean, who cares that she went to the store?

I loooove double entendres. I live for them, in fact. Hangingstone... I love it! Ha!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'll leave the name of the book intact. The publisher will say if she wants it changed, I guess, but - my only concern is that I'll have to unravel a lot of geographical stuff as it's a real place. I didn't worry about it in Standish, after all, and most of the names there were meant to mean something...

Thanks!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh that's priceless!!

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

Wish there was someway I could filter all the Twit posts out.

Holy sheep, yes. :/ I posted a rant on my off-LJ blog because this stuff is driving me insane, but there are some folks on my LJ blog who do it (post the daily compilation of Twitters to their journals) and I didn't want to start drama. But seriously, what the heck is the thought process here?

"Hmm, I'll bet there are a bunch of people who, for some inexplicable reason, don't subscribe to Twitter themselves, but who would be overjoyed to read my Twitter messages every day! I'll have to make sure they can do that!!"

[facepalm]

If people want to use Twitter, that's fine, but for cripes sake, leave it on Twitter. [sigh]

Angie

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Agree. Twitter on Twitter please. I'll make the tee-shirts.