Blogs and Tweets and Web Sites--OH MY!
OK, first of all, I’m am amateur—I really feel like I have absolutely NO IDEA what I’m doing out of bed, let alone behind a car, a computer, a book, etc…. When I get to oogle on Google and muck around through the incredibly vast world of online publishing across this little blue planet we inhabit, it totally amazes and overwhelms me—not underwhelm, not whelm, OVERWHELM even. Here’s why. You never know who’s reading what these days, nor who’s writing what. I’m not trying to scare anyone with Big Brother or Wiki Leaks conspiracy stuff; it’s just a fact of life. Truly, people—readers, writers, performers, audiences—all across the world are on a LEVEL playing field, so to speak. The virtual world is indeed your oyster. So, now more than ever, putting it out there is becoming more and more important—but how you put yourself out there needs to be just as varied as the multiple platforms out there. Someone like myself, who is navigating the creative writing waters...