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.)

[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")

[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.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

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

I'm so helpful...

[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]

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.

[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*

[adriannebrennan.livejournal.com]

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

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not the same thing? all right, then I didn't uderstand that, and my comment was referring to LoudTwitter.

[adriannebrennan.livejournal.com]

Twitter is a totally separate social networking program. You keep up with people's messages about their way and reply to them. It's a lot like Facebook's wall-to-wall concept.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

;-) Now I "understand"! I don't use Facebook either, so one more reason why I'm not into it. Elisa

[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.

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

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...

[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...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

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

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I would expect nothing less. *frowns*

Petitbois!!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I have Facebook, but I admit I don't get that, either. I'm too old!!!

[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*

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

we are two! Elisa

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I really do think you should use something with the same meaning but not so obvious. I'm a bit disappointed no-one has noticed all the footballers' names in Lessons in Love. :)

[adriannebrennan.livejournal.com]

I think that's because some of them don't get the socialness of the feature. I typically comment on stuff that can be either a news bulletin or a something to start a conversation.

"I like tomatoes" isn't very useful.

"Omgs, I just made this killer recipe. Anyone want it?" might be much better.

[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"

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Petitbois? What is it in Italian?