Evening in the Life

For my live-tweet experience, I wanted to do something I never have done before, which is live-tweeting as I’m doing something. I decided to go shopping, so I thought I’d live tweet that! 

Story

I definitely wanted a thread of beginning, middle, and end within my thread, so I started before we went shopping and my thought process behind that decision, why I went shopping, and what the atmosphere was like. I centred my overarching theme around going to the bookstore, because I love the bookstore and am extremely passionate about it! As well, I love the atmosphere of the bookstore, and wanted to convey that within my story. I wanted to express how I feel in a bookstore, what runs through my mind in there!

Techniques

One highlight that stood out to me was Vanyerchuk’s “Document. Don’t Create.” Where Vanyerchuk wrote:

“Describe your journey, outline your vision, and describe your thoughts, ideas, actions, wins, losses, anxieties and ambitions online.”

Vanyerchuk, How to Tell a Story on Social Media

This quote stands out to me as an excellent way to inspire and form my live-tweeting, even for something as mundane as … shopping! When you don’t live a rather exciting life (or, well, one that many would not consider exciting, but its exciting in your own way) it’s hard to do something to live tweet! But, thinking about anything you document being a journey, using your own thoughts to format that journey into something special, like a story told on Twitter, I think that’s incredible. Anything can make a story, even live-tweeting a shopping trip to your favourite store, and it’s all about how you word it, what you make of it, and the threads that you weave within, well, that very same thread, on Twitter!