Someone once said to me that, unbeknownst to themselves, legions of people who do a lot of Twitter or snarky Facebook posts have been honing the skill of vomiting into their heads, trying to, as writers, have the last word or the "touché." When, in fact, trying to have a last word or "touché" comment is not the same skill set that you would have to have in order to keep a conversation going.
Part of the reason why I don't do social media, or why I don't write for blogs or anything that is more immediate, is that as a writer, I do a lot of drafting of things that are full of a lot of self-righteousness and full of a lot of flimsy comebacks. The Argonauts in its first go-round was a full of a lot of [that]. Especially in autobiography, it's very easy to write scenes where you want to show the stupid thing that somebody said to you once. That's the kind of stuff I end up editing out, and usually end up feeling really grateful that I edited it out, so that the book could keep thinking further. So I guess because I burn through a lot of that, because I think any human would, I kind of keep with longform things that are outside of a news cycle, because for me [social media doesn’t enable] the kind of thought or writing pattern that would be most fruitful for where I want to go to as a writer.