- Clarify the objectives of your project: what are you trying to accomplish?
My main objective is to point out how Trump’s syntax overshadows his misinformation. In the same vein, how him saying something is taken differently than if anyone else would say the same thing.
- Who is your main audience that you are trying to reach? How are you hoping they would interact with your project? What do you need to do to get them involved?
I think I should try to reach a conservative audience to demonstrate the absurdity of Trump’s tweets. Further research into appropriate and safe hashtags is needed. I don’t know how I want people to interact with my tweets; ideally it would help them draw the conclusion that many of Trump’s tweets are ridiculous (to put it nicely).
- How can you draw from examples of community building such as #GirlsLikeUs and #BlackintheIvory for your project?
I think hashtags are incredibly important, although the right ones must be chosen so that nothing malicious is put out.
- Can the longer Twitter narratives you’ve encountered (Zola’s #TheStory, Egan’s “Black Box”) help with your plan for your project?
I actually think that I can do a narrative. Although my responses at the top reflect my tweets so far, going forward I want to create a story that incorporates trump’s tweets, but is not comprised entirely of them. For example, I could write a Twitter story that has a narrative that includes an antagonist, and that person would be responsible for trumps tweets. I think I could give this character the most ridiculous background, like an escaped alien from Area 21, and by giving the alien Trump’s voice, it would demonstrate the ridiculousness of them.
- Identify your major problems/questions/difficulties so far. Brainstorm possible solutions.
My major problem is a lack of narrative. I need to create a narrative from scratch, but I think I can mimic the Zola storytelling method to make it seem more “realistic.”
- Thinking ahead (and this will probably take most time): brainstorm possible directions for future posts.
I think I’m going to form my narrative around meeting an escaped alien and the interactions that follow as we travel around.