The one advantage of Twitter and Tumblr...

[sally_maria]

is that you can link to one or two things you think other people (ladyofastolat?) will be interested in, without feeling you have to make a detailed post explaining why.

One of the most interesting speakers at the last couple of SFX Weekenders has been Tony Lee, who's mostly a comics writer. I really must get round to reading some of his work one day, even though graphic novels aren't really my thing.

Anyway, he's been talking on Twitter about going into schools to do talks about books and being a writer, because that was one of his main inspirations and he wants to pass it on.

He's also written a blog post for World Book Day, where he talks about the fact that he was a reluctant reader and how he learnt to love reading (and writing) again.

Comments

[elayna88.livejournal.com]

I think it's funny, we're at complete opposites on the advantage of Twitter and Tumblr. I've got one flistie on LJ who occasionally posts links without it being obvious why. We share some fandoms, but not others, so whenever I see a non-descriptive link, my first reaction is... tell me something so I know if I care!

Though maybe the Twitter and Tumblr people at least mention the fandom? If my flistie doesn't mention the fandom, I just don't click any more.

[sally_maria]

Oh, no, I don't mean with no indication of what it's about at all - I agree, that's pointless.

Tumblr I usually use for linking to pictures or videos, so you can see what they are and Twitter has hashtags at least.

It's just that posting one paragraph entries to journals always seems like it's too perfunctory and you're wasting people's time, whereas that's what Twitter is designed for. You could do several links at the same time, but means saving them up until you find several ones on the same theme, whatever it is.

I'm much more likely to rec something on Twitter, where it doesn't feel too short to say something like "Great blog post about reluctant readers.link #tolkien" or to just copy the original message from the author to your followers/flist.

[elayna88.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, yeah that makes sense to me.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I do like that blog post. It's interesting to hear a firsthand account of a child who judged all books because of disliking a few specific books. This is one of my pet hobby horses when I'm in school libraries full of horrid, tatty, old fashioned, out of date books, or when talking to parents who hold to the "he started it so I'm going to force him to read it to the very end, whether he likes it or not" approach.

[sally_maria]

Yes, I agree. It's so contrary to how I related to books as a child, but I think he does a very good job of explaining how he was feeling.