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So far, I have the FB page. I will start posting on Friday. My story is short so I will be giving a lot of background. Some people are having trouble in terms of making their story/page “realistic”. I will be adding a lot of friends and try to see if they are willing to comment on my character’s page.

 

My story is still in the beginning. I am at the point where my character is handling so much she isnt posting to many tweets but starting Friday, the posts will start up again and it will be clear that she is going through something and hiding something and that her bf and her are having trouble. My story is well on its way.

Sooooo, my story is not going the way I planned. The event happened, but I feel as though my social media setting is not expressing the seriousness of it. I thought that it would work, but it just doesn't seem real enough. At this point I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm probably just going to keep going, but it's not going to be the way I want it to be. Maybe as I keep going it will get much better.

Hm. Well, I'm beginning to think I might be going about this wrong. Instead of using twitter to tell my story, I just made a twitter for my character where he posts about his recovery. I guess this is still doing it correctly though. The only problem is that I can't straight up say the events that happened in my story. I have to sort of let my character realize them and post what his thoughts and reactions to these realizations. This makes the storyline very vague. I don't really like it being so vague and not having a clear set of events. I'm not really sure why I let this happen. However, if I say the things that are happening straight out, then the character will feel fake. It makes it really difficult since my character doesn't actually know what's going on from his amnesia. I think my mistake was writing the story in third person and then trying to retell it in first person. 

My benchmark is going quite well.  I've laid the setting and characters in my story and have begun to build up to the climax.  I recently opened a Twitter account for my character and connected it to her Facebook, so I am able to only post to Twitter, but both are updated. I believe this makes Lebow a much more believable character (it is unlikely that someone would post the same thing to two different sites). 

I've also just discovered a tool called Twuffer which allows me to schedule my tweets.  This is perfect for me because my story takes place during a weekday, which makes it difficult to constantly update Twitter, this way I can do it all the night before.  

During this project, I've realized that timing is very important when delivering a story, especially when you are attempting to show, not tell.  For example, "This is not going to work out," is much more effective when followed by "I knew it" 12 minutes later than 5 1/2 hours later.  Twuffer will allow me to control this very well.  

I'm really loving my senior project. Not only that I'm learning from it but I'm having fun too. My outside is a cool guy. He has a lot of wisdom and knowledge and he's passing it on to my friend Cam and I. I feel honored. Even if I don't complete my capstone the way I visioned it, at least I learned from the experience.