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Conferences: Songs from the Uproar
Do you go to conferences? Boy, I do. One of the greatest aspects of conference-going is meeting people you might have known only on the ether, putting a face to the avatar. Here, for example, is...
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Twitter: A Dangerous Sense of Entitlement
photo by jesse.millan Today I want to talk about a problem I see in the community of writers on Twitter: a growing sense of entitlement. We writers work hard to build our platform. We’re told how...
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Everything You Need to Know About the #Hashtag
Photo by Shovelling Son If you spend any amount of time on the internet, you’ve probably seen people using words or phrases with pound signs in front of them, #like #this. On Twitter, this is called a...
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Twitter: Are You Taking the Lazy Way Out?
Photo by Krawlings95. Every once in a while, I’ll be on Twitter and start feeling glum. No one is talking to me, I think. No one new is following me. No one’s replying to my tweets. There’s a problem...
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Pay Proper Attention to Your Bio
Photo by wecand / Flickr Lately I’ve noticed that some freelance and author bios are very short—sometimes not more than one line—and say little more than “John Doe is a writer.” I made this observation...
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Everything You Really Need to Know About Twitter
photo by Ian Muttoo This post probably isn’t what you’re expecting. If you’re looking for guidelines and tips on how to use and get the most out of Twitter, you can view a list of my past posts here....
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Should You Be On Twitter?
photo by Rosaura Ochoa In my last post here at Writer Unboxed, I mentioned that – despite what the “build a platform” drones might chant outside your bedroom window at night – writers don’t have to be...
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Pram in the Hall
Flickr Creative Commons: Peter Barwick You know that question everyone always asks writers? The one about what we do all day? In my experience most writers spend their days doing a lot of nothing —...
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Getting Started on Twitter
photo by RuffLife After weighing the pros and cons of Twitter last time, maybe you’ve decided to take the leap. But you’re understandably overwhelmed, because Twitter is a strange and mysterious land...
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Twitter Etiquette 101
photo by Ron Mead It might (or might not) come as a surprise to you that many writers hate Twitter. I confess that I’ve had my own “die, Twitter, die” moments over the years, and it’s usually due to...
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Everything You Need to Know About the @Reply
photo by Steve Snodgrass Okay, tweeps and future tweeps! So far in my column we’ve covered getting started on Twitter, the retweet, the #hashtag, and basic Twitter etiquette. Today I’m going to go over...
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The Great Twitter Debate: Should You Follow Back?
photo by Gerry Balding Apparently I’m a glutton for punishment, because if there’s one topic that could be considered controversial about the usage of Twitter, it’s this one. When someone new follows...
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The Online Presence That’s a Natural Extension of Who You Are and What You...
I’ve been reading with interest (and sympathy) the comments on Porter Anderson’s Unboxed post last week, where we see the familiar Sturm und Drang of writers grappling with the demands of online...
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The 10 Most Generic Tweets of All Time
photo by mendhak Twitter is chock full of vague, generic, redundant tweets. Usually my eyes skim over them like the filler they are, but every once in a while I’ll sink into one and roll around in the...
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Ask Annie: Retweeting @Mentions, Building a Target Audience, and Following Back
Welcome to my first Ask Annie column, where I’ll be answering all of your Twitter questions right here on Writer Unboxed every other month. I’ll pick 1-5 questions each time, depending on the length of...
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The Evolution of an Author Website
When I started out as a serious writer, back in the mid-1990s, I didn’t even own a home computer. I wrote in longhand and word-processed after hours at work. Once I had my first publishing contract I...
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Ask Annie: Meeting People on Twitter, Hanging Out, and Getting Found
@AnnieNeugebauer WU Twitter question. Writers “meet” each other on Twitter. How? How do people “hang out” with Tweets? I’m a noob. :) —Abigail Welborn @AbigailFair This is a great question! The...
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Is It Really Your Duck?
Thanks to the internet, it is now easier than ever to get information about the publishing industry. Even if you live in a ghost town, you can connect with writers all over the world, via blogs, social...
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There’s a Fine Line Between (Online) Love and Hate
Today’s guests are Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke, authors of Your Perfect Life and, released this month, The Status of All Things. They have been best friends for more than twenty-five years. Liz lives...
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Ask Annie: The Line Between Self-Promotion and Spam
Today I’m only tackling one question, because it’s slightly involved and also because I feel it’s an incredibly important topic for writers on Twitter. The submitter has asked to be kept anonymous, so...
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