Can't Succeed? Fail UP!

Try to fail in an upward direction.

I have no "New Year's Resolutions." But I am putting together a bunch of promotional experiments to run. Most or all of them won't "work."

When I try to promote my written work, I feel like I'm the Village Idiot: "Read my book, please?" Whoever I say that to grabs my book out of my hand and slaps me in the face with it, then throws my book into the mud.

But, if I'm climbing a hill, or climbing stairs, and I fall down, I'm failing up, aren't I?

This is actually my favorite sort of tweet.

Minimalist.

Lots of space. The #TwitterArt reinforces the actual message. Best of all, for my ego, I'm doing tricks that no one else even knows how to do on Twitter! And, yes, I prefer the clean look of a tweet without hashtag.

Actually, there are at least 5 #TwitterArt (ists) who know how I am doing these sorts of "special effects." Two artists, I explicitly confessed to via DM. Two long-time #140art heavy-hitters know me well enough to have sussed me out: my guess is they leave me alone because of respect, or fear, or their own personal integrity.

What? People can't have integrity? By the time you read this, it will be 2013: I proclaim this the year of integrity! @hg47