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Live Chat: How Do I Adapt My Best Writing Strategies to Twitter and Facebook?

By Roy Peter Clark

How do I adapt my best writing strategies to the limits required by Facebook and Twitter?

That's the question many writers and editors are asking these days as all of us work to learn the potential of these powerful social networks. What can you say in 140 characters? Is "short" the same as "concise"? Is there an appropriate style or voice that seems to work best for Facebook? Is there a "grammar" for Twitter that is different from the traditions of print and broadcast?

Was the great Gene Weingarten correct or short-sighted when he claimed last week on Twitter that it's impossible to write a limerick in only 140 characters? So, all we get from the poets are these boring haikus?

Join us Thursday, Oct. 21, at 3 p.m. for an online chat on these and related topics. Share your experience and expertise, and be ready to ask your toughest questions. We'll look at where writers fit into these powerful social networks and touch on everything from length, voice, style, audience, feedback, serialization and marketing yourself.

I'm writing a five-part series on writing for social networks, which you can find on Poynter.org starting in November.

Twitterers can tweet questions to #poynterchats before or during the chat. You can revisit this link at any time to replay the chat after it has ended.

Full post as published by Writing Tools on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).