

Give the present the gift of your full attention.” She ended that tweet with the same two words that ended all the tweets, clearly a message for herself as well as for her then-16,000 followers: “Keep moving.” Now, in 2020, the worst year yet, comes Smith’s commercial debut: not a collection of poems but a quirky quasi-memoir called Keep Moving, which intersperses those affirming tweets with personal reflections on the hardest days of Smith’s life and features blurbs from the inspirational blogger Glennon Doyle and the singer Amanda Palmer. “Today’s goal: Stop rewinding and replaying the past,” she wrote in one representative tweet.

Near the end of 2018, that bad year, she started posting daily encouragements and affirmations on Twitter. Shortly after this flurry of attention, Smith’s marriage fell apart.
