I’ve recently joined Twitter and I’m following a number of famously creative people as well as some not so famously creative people. It’s amazing what can be said and shared in the 140 characters that Twitter allows it’s members.
The more famous people have become a bit more human to me with their sometimes mundane revelations of the work that goes into their success. For instance, I can identify with John Lithgow’s observation that “this writing stuff is hell.” Neil Gaiman spent days in the service of his injured dog–although his star status has been recently reaffirmed by his winning of the Newbery award for “The Graveyard Book.” He’s been tweeting non-stop through dozens of interviews about that and the upcoming movie, “Coraline,” which is based on his book.
Almost everyone I follow maintain active blogs and are constantly involved in, or at least dreaming up, projects. The energy they transmit through their tweets is palpable.
All this information about how people I admire work and live do two things: 1) I recognize the ways in which these people are like me and feel that I too have something to offer the world and 2) I am motivated to keep up with everyone else.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go tweet about my blog post.
