I have a couple blogs I write for and . . . that’s about the extent of my multimedia writing. I’ve delved into the world of Facebook and Twitter, but I don’t do a whole lot of writing there. Facebook because it’s just status updates, Twitter because it’s only 140 characters. The latter has actually helped my writing both in spite of and due to the brevity of the posts. I really hate 21st century abbreviations (u r, lol, etc.), so keeping my Twitter posts within the 140 character limit without these devices is a true exercise in concision. It’s taught me a lot in terms of paring down. I’ve gotten a kick out of another “tweep” (singular “twerson”?) who writes stories in 140 characters or less. His or her handle is: http://twitter.com/veryshortstory. This person has the Twitter thing down.
But I digress. I have some experience with video and digital photography, more the latter than the former. I’ve done very, very, very little video editing (though some) and I’m slightly more experienced with photo editing. I can crop, enhance, “artistify” . . . that’s about it.
I don’t think any of this will significantly help writing for other media. It’s experience, of course, but I think the main thing is just being open to figuring out how to communicate in each particular realm. In Facebook, it’s through pokes and status updates and photos. Twitter is short and sweet. Blogs are whatever you want them to be. It’s just a matter of flexibility. My particular generation has this in leaps and bounds, so that’s really going for all of us. We’ve been at the forefront of all the new developments and so we find ourselves experts without even realizing it. It’s just a matter of having the confidence and patience to go forward with it.
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