BD Wilson

I read Twitter almost exclusively on my iPhone. Given the format, it makes a lot of sense to me to display it that way, and I tend to prefer the Twitter apps to the web site. One of the downsides, however, is that I follow a lot of people because they give links to excellent stories, and I hate surfing the web on my phone. I didn’t really have a satisfactory system of marking things to read later, until I switched to the official Twitter app, which supports another of additions, including Instapaper.

Instapaper is a system of temporarily saving links to read later. For people who skim Twitter or RSS feeds when we don’t have time to sit down an read full articles, they can flag a link a something they want to come back to, and then log into Instapaper to see that list when they have the time to devote to reading.

The site has a bookmarklet that you can add to your browser, so while you’re surfing, you just click the button, and it adds the article to your list. In the Twitter app, you put your account in the settings, and then when viewing a tweet, “Read Later” is one of the options if it contains a link.

Once it’s been added, it shows up in your Instapaper list, with a link to the site, and in this case, with the display text of the tweet that caught your attention.

It’s a quick and easy way to keep track of articles you want to read, but aren’t able to do so when you come across them.

I’ve been seeing posts with I Write Like in them, and decided to put a couple stories through just for fun.

What We Give (found in Lost Innocence: A Niteblade Anthology):

Surveying the Land (found in Dark Pages Anthology):

I should find a journal or blog entry with enough length, to see what I get when I’m not writing for characters

Edit: A few of my old Scribblings posts got me Margaret Atwood and Stephen King, which makes a kind of sense.