The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.
From David Grann
There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.
Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.
I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.
When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.
It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
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