Will she say “Yes”?

An engagement suspense story

My live-tweet thread shares the story of an important event in my life – my engagement.

In my 10 + tweets, I conveyed my feelings, and the difficulty, of asking my wife if she would marry me.

STORY FORMAT

The story started off lovely enough. We arrived at a castle hotel in Ireland, near Galway, that we had booked ahead of time to “treat” ourselves.

While in our room, I tried to find a means to ask her if she would marry me without a ring at hand (because I was going to suggest that we shop for a ring in Galway, so she could pick what she wanted – a nice traditional Irish Claddagh ring).

In the middle part of my live-tweet story, I figured out a way to propose to her (with a note under her pillow); but, my worst fears were realized when she didn’t find the note before she went to sleep.

The next morning, at the end of the story, I took matters into my own hand – I gave her the note; she said “Yes”; and we set out to find the perfect ring.

“ENGAGING” STORY

Would she find the note or not helped to create much of the suspense in the story and helped to keep the audience engaged.

The stakes were high for me personally (“Would she say “No”?”), but I felt pretty confident I knew the answer before I even asked (But, you never know!).

STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES/PRINCIPLES

As Eric Goldschein suggested in his article posted in Social Media Today, I tried to write the way I talk (or think) to make the story more natural and authentic. The personal perspective also helped up the suspense, as I didn’t know what was going to happen next.

I also tweeted short posts, including ones with “…” and reactions like “WTF?”, as this helped to build up the intrigue, which Joe Wodlington stated in his “How to use Tweet threads” article was important for good social media writing.

All in all, I felt the personal writing style made the posts highly relatable to anyone who has ever planned something out in their mind, only to fall flat on their face.