Tweet all about it...

I'm all in favour of tapping into students' interests to engage them in the classroom.  Many of them have got Facebook or Twitter accounts so I use this well known format in my lessons when exploring a character.  They love creating profiles for fictional characters and sometimes they post on the character's wall in the wake of a notable development in the story.  Templates are readily available on the internet.  Here is a very realistic example, created by a student who used a template that I provided:

You may need to explain how Twitter/Facebook works to those students who don't use these platforms.  Yes, there are some of them out there...