partake in threadapalooza
About a week ago, Loopy published this tweet:
you can just start thinking about @threadapalooza two weeks early
What is Threadapalooza, you ask? Well, check out the bio of its official Twitter account:
100-tweet threads. like NaNoWriMo, but for twitter brainstorms in December.
For those who abstain from Twitter, don't let the fact that it's hosted there stop you. You can play the game on another microblogging platform, your personal site, or elsewhere. Anyhow, too many fellow posters advertise their handles and sites for me to keep the initiative a secret. Too many challenges, carnival topics, and competitions have been advertised as fun to think that another breaks the camel's back.
You can treat it as practicing Visa's do 100 things. However, you may have already posted 100 beautiful things and counting. In that case, you can surely repeat that feat at a smaller scale and tighter cadence.
However, you pull back the curtain to see how Threadapalooza emphasizes systems-based inertia over accomplishing the goal. Guy tweeted about how it's a springboard not just for a self-contained sprint, but an ongoing marathon:
I feel like many people missed the point of threadpalooza lol. I think the point was not to come back and finish the 100 tweets, I think it was to show you that even after the initial inspiration is gone, even after you hit the wall, you can. just. keep. going. And you'll do it
Yes, you can continue your thread and even start new ones. That holds true after you hit the wall, finish your thread, and beyond. It's just like any other activity you stick with through the years, particularly those you engage with through perfect practice.
Say you're stuck on what to write about. Start offloading your stuckness on your thread or elsewhere, then see where it goes from there. You can even leverage trusted people (or AI systems if you roll that way) around you for ideas like what Judah tweeted out:
GIVE ME A THREADAPALOOZA PROMPT THAT DOESN’T FEEL LIKE SOMETHING I’D TWEET ABOUT ON MY OWN
That said, I suspect you have plenty of prompts worth posting about under your belt. This initiative could serve as a way to prototype that page per interest you have been meaning to make. Perhaps its time to do a deep dive into something you have already made, like this interaction between Norvid and Flaw suggests:
(Norvid:) What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep? I can't.
(Flaw:) I basically just did this for chess engines because the original speaker bailed and the guy running it knew I wrote one lmao.
(Norvid:) you wrote a chess engine? talk about chess engine design for 5 minutes right now
No matter what you choose to write about, I believe you can have a fun time partaking in Threadapalooza. What good could another 100 units of writing add to your life?