What is a Writers Lift on Twitter?

Let me share one of your published stories in my writerslift this Friday.

If you’re a new writer on Medium and you haven’t been writing online for very long, you might not be familiar with the term writer’s lift. In fact, the first time I ever heard it was on Twitter, so for all I know, the phrase may have started there.

So what exactly is a writer’s lift, and why am I making a distinction between my personal writer’s lift, and the standard writerslift on Twitter?

Those are questions I’m about to answer, and hopefully, persuade you to take part in the fun during the next writer’s lift that I provide.

About my self proclaimed Friday writerslift on Twitter

This past Friday, I had a blast, spending the day alternating between reading stories on Medium, and posting tweets on Twitter.

I call this little experiment with promoting stories on Twitter, my self proclaimed writerslift because I didn’t really follow the traditional protocol.

For example, here’s the way their writerslift activities typically go:

• Every Friday, Twitter has a huge community of writers who take the time to post tweets for and about themselves and other writers.
• Since Twitter has a lot of self published authors, most of the lifts have to do with promoting: the latest book releases, if not the current works-in-progress, not to mention all the what I’m reading tweets.

But let’s consider what else happens on those motivational Fridays and all those writers getting together to lift one another up.

Why bother participating in the Friday writerslift on Twitter?

Let’s face it, if you’ve ever been on Twitter on a Friday, during #writerslift time, you can’t deny how inspiring and motivational it is. It doesn’t matter that so much of what is being done and said is mostly self-serving.

Trust me, I’m a huge fan of self promotion, but not everything is automatically done, with the purpose of being serving self. Some things just naturally work out that way, when you genuinely try to help people.

This happened to me when I conducted my first Twitter experiment involving my Medium writer lifts on Twitter. I got good feedback, which meant more reader engagement for my story.

But this has been happening to me for as long as I can remember. I do something to help someone, and I end up benefiting so much, that I actually feel guilty. I’m working on those issues.

Why is my Friday writers lift on Twitter different ?

My writer’s lift is a bit different, because normally, the writers on Twitter read tweets from the writers who post them, and lift them up (so to speak), by retweeting and commenting on their posts.

But since my aim is to focus attention on the writers on Medium, and their stories, I’ll be posting tweets myself. So, all day long, I’ll be reading your Medium stories, then, popping over to Twitter to post a tweet about them.

Bada bing, bada bang!

What stories do I lift up on Twitter?

I’ll be lifting up the stories that I choose to read, plus the stories you guys provide me links to and ask for a lift.

Sorry, but I won’t be able to write a story later on, featuring all the writers who I gave a lift to, unlike I do with my “Over the Weekend” feature (you can read about that too).

By not having to stop and keep a record of which writers and stories that I promote, I can read and post a lot more tweets during the day.

So if you want you and your story to get a lift, make sure you provide the right information when you leave your response.

I’ll try my best to actually read all your requested stories myself, so I can leave a genuine comment on Twitter about the story. But in the event I get too many requests, I’ll simply post a tweet with the link, WITHOUT suggesting I’ve already read the post.

I like to keep things honest.

How can you get lifted up on Twitter this coming Friday?

As it stands, anyone is welcome to request a writer’s lift. I laid everything out in the original story I wrote about it.

You can feel free to leave your request in a response on this page, or you can leave it on the other story, after you get more details.

I didn’t see the need to repeat what I already wrote.

Final Thoughts

Anyone who’s been following me for a while, knows that I’m always coming up with some bright idea and I’m all about marketing and promoting our stories.

Hopefully this writerslift of mine will become a regular Friday thing. But if it proves to be futile, and Twitter doesn’t benefit us any, I’ll put my thinking cap back on (not that I ever really take it off), and I’ll come up with something else.

I appreciate all you readers and followers, and I want you to know that I’ll continue trying to support you, just like you support me.

DEAR READER: The advice and opinions I shared in this story are not taken from a text book, nor do I profess to be an expert. I only aim to share how I handled the situation when this happened to me, OR how I feel about it if it were to ever happen. The views I express are part of the many life lessons I discovered on my journey to self improvement.

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