New post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-27 - Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dang... http://ow.ly/16G9u1

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
- Saint Augustine #quote

RT @inkwellHQ: RT @Quotes4Writers: "Fiction is better experienced than interpreted...To fully understand a symbol is to kill it." Ron Hansen

Sponsor links & pages for Words Matter Week go live on March 1st. There are sponsor spots still open- don't miss them! http://ow.ly/1bK3u

If you are planning a give-away/other celebration for Words Matter Week, don't forget to post it on the FB events page! http://ow.ly/1bFGg

Intellectual property rights- an interesting, well-considered article- Chronicle of Higher Ed: http://ow.ly/1bEYA This matters to writers.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. Schopenhauer #quote

New post: Should You Write What You Know? - What do you write and why? Conventional wisdom says to write what you k... http://ow.ly/16EIsA

NAIWE News- Whack Wordiness with Barbara McNichol - In honor of Words Matter Week, March 1-7, 2010, we'll be hostin... http://ow.ly/16EIsw

Sponsor up Words Matter Week (individual pages soon to follow). Still time to become a sponsor before the week starts! http://ow.ly/1aWal

Dante forgot to add a circle for people who lose Tupperware lids.

New post! Are You Helpful or Nitpicking? - When evaluating a student's schoolwork, it can be a challenge to find th... http://ow.ly/16Eboh

New post: Don't Write What You Know - Conventional wisdom says to write what you know, but it can be more authentic... http://ow.ly/16Eejb

Have you seen the Words Matter Week 2010 mini-poster? It's yours to download and print. Pass it on! http://ow.ly/18r6Z

New post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-20 - There's still time to join the debate on whether school libraries... http://ow.ly/16CPZF

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
-John Morley #quote

Literature is news that STAYS news. -Ezra Pound #quote

Just posted a How to Participate page for Words Matter Week, coming up the first week in March. http://ow.ly/18r3b

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out. -Nora Ephron #quote

NAIWE member teleclass “Write It Once, Leverage It Many Times” w/ Paulette Ensign today at 3:30 pm EST http://ow.ly/16Vdw

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. Elizabeth Drew #quote

NAIWE member teleclass: “Write It Once, Leverage It Many Times” with Paulette Ensign. Wed., 2/17 3:30 pm EST. http://ow.ly/16Vdw

I'll be teaching today- how to prepare for the SAT. Writing an essay (rough draft, really) in 25 minutes is a useful skill!

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. C. Baudelaire #quote

Contest for a free Kindle- write 259 words about a thin place in your life. Deadline 2/12. I'm entering! http://ow.ly/16y3E

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence
calls forth your best." - Epicletus #quote

Writers & editors- have you joined the writers-editors twibe? All members' writing/editing tweets show up in one spot. Fun! twib.es/BUZ

RT @americandream09: In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde #quote

Writers & editors: How & why to use your blog: New post on NAIWE NewsWire- Member Websites Now Even Easier to Use- http://ow.ly/1574F

Snowstorm today; my cable modem keeps flickering. If you don't hear from me, power's out & I'm reading & writing by the fire. Stay warm!

@SairzBillington Hard to pick a favorite SCBWI speaker- here's 2: Jacqueline Woodson & Jane Yolen. Beautiful & inspiring!