The month of October was hectic. Birthdays, bottles of scotch, traveling, and learning that apparently the new norm is only one space after a period.

Now I am approximately 11 days sober, fifty pages further in my own manuscript, and slowly getting used to only using one space.

So, let’s resume tweeting a novel again. I feel that now may be a good time to recap the story, thus far, complete with re-done spacing. So here is where we left off:

Darle ripped the filter off a Virginia Slim and placed it carefully between her emerald lips, lighting it with a pink Bic. She tapped the lighter against her purse twice for luck and tossed it inside, exhaling a cloud of smoke into the dark. Met with a familiar question of whether or not she had missed the last bus of the night, she decided to walk. It wasn’t the distance that bothered her, but the number of steps home; each of which precipitated another bad memory.

Like a wil-o-the-wisp, her thoughts would dart from memory to memory. No walk was the same, but they were always similar. Each alley held a similar story of abuse, substance or otherwise, and each stairwell held a certain longing.

We are six lines into the story. Submissions for line number seven will be open for a little while, just so people can get back into the habit, like that first cigarette after a period of quitting, taking in the smoke long and slow.

Send your submissions for line seven to:

@letstweetanovel

or

letstweetanovel@gmail.com

also (a new means of submission)

IM letstweetanovel@yahoo.com on Yahoo! Messenger

Let the tweeting begin!

Blaine.

Each alley held a similar story of abuse, substance or otherwise, and each stairwell held a certain longing.

Submissions for Line 7 are now open.  Send them in folks!

@letstweetanovel

or

letstweetanovel@gmail.com

Sorry I have been a little behind, but things have been chaotic in the real world and my computer is on the fritz, so it is tough to find time to update. In other news, I got an iPhone and hopefully will be able to start doing the work from that, instead of using my fritzy computer.

Anyway, here is the vote for line 6, get to it!

Like a wil-o-the-wisp, her thoughts would dart from memory to memory. No walk was the same, but they were always similar.

Thank you to those who submitted and voted.  Things seem to be slowing down a bit.  I’m going to do my best to get word out to more people.  Please get your friends, family, loved ones, and those you hate involved.  It will make the world a happier place.

In other news, the screen on my laptop is acting up, so things will probably be a little slow going until I get that fixed.  But, have no fear, things will still be going on, good things.  Great things even.

Anyway, submissions for Line 6 will remain open until Thursday, September 24th.  I will probably post the poll sometime that evening.  Get to submitting!

@letstweetanovel

letstweetanovel@gmail.com

or

add Let’s Tweet a Novel on Facebook and send him a message!

Also, check out the last few entries about new social media options for the project and get to making Mix Tapes and pictures and videos and whatever else you may feel inspired to make!

The first is a MySpace account you should all go be friends with.

http://www.myspace.com/letstweetanovel

The second is an actual Facebook account that is also longing for your friendship.

Finally, one that is a little more out there: an account at www.8tracks.com

What does this last one require?  Your musical taste.

I plan to have this as an account shared among all of us.

The user name is: letstweetanovel

The password is: tweettweet

You can view the page itself by going to:

http://www.8tracks.com/letstweetanovel

I want folks to go there, log in, and make play lists that are inspired by the story.  As it progresses, they may change and evolve, but this might be helpful in inspiring our joint creativity.  Go wild.

This is social networking at its finest, people!  Join in!

It wasn’t the distance that bothered her, but the number of steps home; each of which precipitated another bad memory.

Submissions for Line 5 will be open until Monday at 8pm.

letstweetanovel@gmail.com

or

@letstweetanovel

Met with a familiar question of whether or not she had missed the last bus of the night, she decided to walk.

We are now taking submissions for Line 4.  You should know the drill by now:

@letstweetanovel

or

letstweetanovel@gmail.com

Also, my good friend and roommate, Levi, has been kind enough to begin working on translating the lines into cool pieces of art.  They can be found on our Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/letstweetanovel

So, follow Levi’s lead and make some art.  Write a song and record it, do a dance, take a picture, or play around in Photoshop.  We have a Flickr page and a YouTube channel.  Get to it!