Getting off twitter I’m not a rockstar. I’m not a public intellectual. I’m not a “minor Internet niche celebrity.” The chances of me disappearing from twitter and it being noticed by Society are not great. If I disappeared from real life too, only a handful of people would notice. It’s not momentous to other people, nor should it be.
I wish I understood myself (or at least tried) as well as you seem to. I wish you well off twitter, but I hope to still be able to read your exceptional writing and ideas here on C&H. And please keep me up to date with progress on "Tattletales". I want to buy that.
I'll look forward to more of your insightful, probing work here off the twitter highway Jesse. Twitter fascinates me as an expat who is fairly cut off from other English speakers because it is a glimpse back into the English-speaking hivemind. Also there is the vainglory of trumpeting my very limited writing successes, which has been fun, and discovering which I did to my surprise that I like quite a bit of the small press writing.
Covid made me go on Twitter. I'm not a social animal (I tend to drag my feet when invited to a party) but I could feel the walls closing in. I love to travel and that door was slammed shut. Basically I used Twitter to see what was out there. Not the hateful stuff, not the anger. Meet other writers, chat about craft, talk to people who know what it means to put a story on paper, or screen. It did that for me.
Here's a substack pellet. I enjoyed this. I enjoy all of C&H.
I wish I understood myself (or at least tried) as well as you seem to. I wish you well off twitter, but I hope to still be able to read your exceptional writing and ideas here on C&H. And please keep me up to date with progress on "Tattletales". I want to buy that.
I feel you. That pellet stuff is so on point it hurts. I'll miss you on Twitter but I'm also happy you've broken free for now.
Hi Jesse, thanks for sharing this and also the tweet earlier. Hope you have some good time away from social media.
I'll look forward to more of your insightful, probing work here off the twitter highway Jesse. Twitter fascinates me as an expat who is fairly cut off from other English speakers because it is a glimpse back into the English-speaking hivemind. Also there is the vainglory of trumpeting my very limited writing successes, which has been fun, and discovering which I did to my surprise that I like quite a bit of the small press writing.
Covid made me go on Twitter. I'm not a social animal (I tend to drag my feet when invited to a party) but I could feel the walls closing in. I love to travel and that door was slammed shut. Basically I used Twitter to see what was out there. Not the hateful stuff, not the anger. Meet other writers, chat about craft, talk to people who know what it means to put a story on paper, or screen. It did that for me.