Social media is often portrayed as the enemy of writers-it steals our time, 它放松了我们的思想, 它缩短了我们的句子. However, 像任何好敌人一样, 我们也许能从拉近距离中获益, borrowing the very elements that make it so time-consuming in the first place. 在这个工艺密集, writers will study excerpts from recent fictions that explore how social media might appear in a variety of texts: as character development, 陌生化, 正式实验, 通往流派的大门, and more. Generative craft exercises will show writers how to employ these same writing strategies in their prose. 无论好坏, 社交媒体似乎并没有走向何方, and authors looking to capture the hectic nature of contemporary life can benefit from using elements of social media to texture and intensify their fiction.
Isle McElroy 是一个住在布鲁克林的非二元作家. 他们的处女作, 的Atmospherians, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice. 他们的第二部小说, People Collide,于9月出版. 其他文字出现在 《365买球网站下载》, 纽约时报杂志, The Guardian, The Cut, Vulture, GQ, Vogue, The Atlantic, Tin House, and elsewhere.