5. But the craft of speeding up sentences, or slowing them down, can only get you so far. Readers are in control of the reading speed.
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6. Some readers will race through a prose & poetry, some will linger over every syllable. The reader is in the driver's seat.
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7. With twitter-essay, what you get is a new way for the writer to have some say in the pace of reading. Twitter-essay unfolds in real time.
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8. As with love-making, there is an art to anticipation, to deferring gratification, to foreplay.
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9. In a twitter essay, if you make a provocative point or a startling paradox, you can wait a few minutes till next tweet. Let it sink in.
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10. Conversely, if you are at part of an essay where there is narrative action, you can write tweets faster, so story moves at a good clip
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11. In general, doing twitter essay is a good way to think about pacing & about narrative: about the sequences of points you want to make.
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12. Telling a story on twitter really forces you to whittle it down to essential details, with narrative pushing forward. Useful exercise.
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13. A tale told on twitter acquires some of the characteristic of oral storytelling, broad characters, sharply defined action.
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14. Aside from twitter essay, lots of interesting things can be done with the unfolding of time on twitter. Look at
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15. @Every3Minutes starts with fact: "a slave was sold [in USA] on average every 3.6 minutes between 1820 and 1860 ~ Herbert Gutman"
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16. If you follow
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