I’m always late to the party.

This time it was getting into a twitter writing community.

I’ve taken part in forums. In a couple of email groups.

They all worked in their own way for a time.

They’ve all faded or disappeared completely.

Then one night I was going through some links on friends sites to see where they led, and stumbled upon a link to #amwriting.  Being a twitter enthusiast I was definitely curious.

Since then I’ve had more meaningful (and sometimes not so meaningful) real author/writing chats and interactions then it feels like I ever have.

It now has a permanent place on my tweetdeck.

When I write I have to turn it off or I’ll never actually work…but otherwise it’s there.

If you need to vent, get inspiration, find other writers (and their blogs)…join the twitter stream. It’s made me laugh and given me inspiration on a regular basis since I joined last week.