Jay's Nanowrimo Word Count: Susan Adrian has a really interesting post here about how authors behave and how they should behave in online situations. And I agree with her in general. I have made several "online friends" by reaching out to people via blog or email, or having people reach out to me, and striking up a conversation. But there is one part of Susan's advice that I am pretty sure I am not going to follow, and that involves Twitter.* Susan decribes an author, Author B, who replies to most @tweets on Twitter, and that's one of the reasons why people really like her, in contrast to Author A, who only responds to people who are more famous or published or what-have-you. Now, I know that Susan's point is not "reply to every @tweet" but rather "don't be a bitch." And it's a good point. You, person on the internet, are not too good to reply to people who pay you compliments online or send you emails. No, really, you're
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