This book represents a contemporary struggle - the struggle to reclaim social media as a forum for thoughtfulness and creativity, stealing back what has too often become a stage for impotent ranting. In #BackOnTrackNow, Write by the Rails catalogs some of the posts generated during its #WbtR #BackOnTrackNow social media campaign. The initiative, which officially ran for about three months in 2018, produced hundreds of short blurbs that can still be found on Facebook and Twitter under those hashtags. These blurbs come in the forms of short poems, lines of fiction, anecdotes and words of wisdom. They are necessarily and refreshingly brief, satisfying Twitter's character limitations.
If you've ever wanted to take part in a movement on social media, now is the time. The members of Write by the Rails dare you - dare you to be creative. Dare you to go public. Dare you to help get social media - and our world - #BackOnTrackNow.
Authors who've contributed to this anthology include: Anonymous, Arlene Banfield, Rebecca Barnes, Terressa Boykin, Sima Button, Carol Covin, Tony Daly, John Dutton, Kathleen Ellis, Sydney Everson, Jane Fullerton Lemons, Susan Beth Furst, Leigh Giza, David Gotthardt, Katherine Gotthardt, P.M. Hernandez, David Holloway, Tim Horn, Traci Carrano Jones, Ann Lemons, Lisa Marino, Alexandra Mooney, Erika Mooney, Jan Rayl, Natalina Reis, Victor Rook, Tamela Ritter, Cathy Ryan, Jeremy Sams, Michelle Santos, Amy Taylor, George Waldrop, Henry Wallace Monroe, and Nancy Wyatt.
