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Follow writers on twitter, or at least those writers crass enough to use that slightly boastful, thoroughly vulgar ‘#amwriting’ tag, and you’ll see proud iterations of wordlengths, in thousands of words, as if that’s what matters. Books are more than a certain thickness of spine, after all. People mistake length for heft; that latter quality is the crucial one.
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Adam Roberts (via zipfinger)
The writers I follow on Twitter don’t even care about calling themselves writers. They aren’t like this. We write poems together in 140ch across timelines. Surrealists tell funnier jokes than the professional comedians with hundreds of thousands of followers, and invent memes that you’ll never see on Facebook. Whenever I see the #amwriting hashtag, it’s exactly what Adam Roberts describes. I realise these aren’t the people whose writing I want to read anyway.
