{"id":226,"date":"2009-11-14T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T16:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2009-11-14T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T16:17:39","slug":"how-tweet-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"How Tweet It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently there was a long thread of conversation on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.conversation.ca\/mailman\/listinfo\/dramaturgy\" target=\"_blank\">dramaturg listserv<\/a> on how literary departments should respond to rejected playwright submissions.   I decided to explore <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nomadmonad\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter as a new art form<\/a> within this topic.   I use the 140-character restriction after the fashion of restrictions that iambic pentameter or haiku pose.   I posted the following Tweets (and revisions) to the list.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Twitter Submission (First Draft)<br \/>\nWord Count  N\/A<br \/>\nCharacters (no spaces) 120<br \/>\nCharacters (with spaces) 149<\/p>\n<p>I hate reading plays.  I love doing plays.  I wish more playwrights would stop writing plays and start doing plays.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d meet them there in a second.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Twitter Submission (Second Draft)<br \/>\nWord Count  N\/A<br \/>\nCharacters (no spaces) 115<br \/>\nCharacters (with spaces) 141<\/p>\n<p>I hate reading plays.  I love doing plays.  I wish playwrights would stop writing, start doing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 be both Words, the Speaker &amp; Deeds, the Doer.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Twitter Submission (Final Draft)<br \/>\nWord Count  N\/A<br \/>\nCharacters (no spaces) 115<br \/>\nCharacters (with spaces) 140<\/p>\n<p>I hate play scripts.  Submissions read like so many cattle at the slaughterhouse.  Brave words don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just talk the talk; they walk the walk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theatre Manifesto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flesh hunters.  <a href=\"http:\/\/melville.thefreelibrary.com\/Moby-Dick-LXVIII-CXXXIV\/1-43\" target=\"_blank\">Queequeg <\/a>is our playwright.  Our script, his indecipherable tattoos.  Prescient, he transcribes his tattoos onto our coffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently there was a long thread of conversation on the dramaturg listserv on how literary departments should respond to rejected playwright submissions. I decided to explore Twitter as a new art form within this topic. I use the 140-character restriction after the fashion of restrictions that iambic pentameter or haiku pose. I posted the following Tweets (and revisions) to the list. Daily Twitter Submission (First Draft) Word Count N\/A Characters (no spaces) 120 Characters (with spaces) 149 I hate reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=226\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}