Twitter still

My Twitter addiction is ongoing, friends, and I am beginning to think that whoever I am on there, is beginning to overtake my personality elsewhere. I don't quite know how to explain it; but it's as though there is some sort of big window, or maybe even an entire door, that is closing down on me, now that I'm a perpetual Twitter head. It's as though I am now in some sort of big house I was never really in before, and all the inhabitants of this house are beginning to leak into me. I am beginning to become one with their thoughts, and their tweets. I am even, in my head, starting to hear their voices. All of these types of people I was just never aware of before ....now becoming front and center. The main attraction....

Picking up voices, of course, is always a part of anyone's game-- but it is especially noticeable, I think, when someone is a writer. It can also be especially dangerous when someone is a writer, and this is why I keep stressing how "uncertain" I am, in regards to Twitter. It is like reading a very bad book, in some way, but I can't stop reading it and I just keep picking up more of the voices. These voices are inevitably going to leak into my scribblings. They may even eventually , I believe, kill my own voice. The death of my own voice isn't necessarily a bad thing, of course. Depends how you see it. It could actually be a good thing. It's not always a bad thing to lose your own voice , believe it or not...

For example, when I read a few Stephen King novels back to back, as I often did years ago, it usually quickly becomes the case that, when I next reach my keyboard, I start writing stuff that sounds a bit like King. Considering he's a best selling author, I don't always think this is such a bad or horrible thing. It can, however, still be annoying. Especially if you think his voice isn't really that entertaining yourself, and yet you're still "accidentally" picking it up anyways. That's really the whole key of it really: Sometimes you don't actively want to pick up the voice, it just happens. This is what I mean by why I'm so conflicted with Twitter: the more I use it, the more I become the person and the people I retweet and follow on there. I get sucked into their world, their book, their type of dialogue, their concerns, etc.

Oh well...it's not such a bad thing I guess. It's just weird!