NPR on Twitter and The Variant
NPR’s All Things Considered has a piece tonight by Alex Cohen about how artists use Twitter, including me with my short story The Variant.
If you missed it, you can catch the clip in the archives, or download it here.
The “test screenings” I did with The Variant were hugely helpful, and led to some significant trim and changes, including the title and the very first sentence.
If you’d like to read that early feedback, I’ve unlocked the password protection so you can see their comments on the first draft and the revised version. (Obviously, both links are chock full of spoilers.)
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June 18th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Wow, its amazing what a different pair of eyes uncovers.
I’m always surprised to see that I didn’t catch a single thing on say, Chip’s list… and he didn’t have a single note from mine.
Were all using very different little telescopes.
I got mine at Toys R’ Us.