Earthquake Hits East Coast!

I'm sitting here at my computer desk grading papers when I feel a rumble. It just keeps rumbling, slowly building intensity. Then people started freaking out. It was indeed an earthquake that struck only minutes ago in the Washington DC area.

I was a little worried there for a few minutes when my co-workers ran for the halls and away from the windows. I have a huge wall of windows to one side of my desk. Figured I should follow. Then the writer kicked in. I took a few steps, then reconsidered.

I turned around, grabbed my Blackberry, which was charging, and my netbook. Thoughts that came to mind. I can update my Twitter status: EARTHQUAKE!! And, my novel draft is in my netbook. If the building goes down, I can't lose that.

I left the papers I was grading where they were. Funny how your brain works in a crisis.

Social Media For Writers - Follow Twitter

So I keep reading more and more about how writers need to use social media to promote their work.

If you use Twitter, check out The Writer Mag's Tweets for useful stuff. I'm trying to be more diligent about my Twitter Account. If you want to check it out, follow it, please do. I've been tweeting about many of my daily observations lately.

If you have ideas that you feel might go nicely here on this Creative Writing blog, drop me a message. Always looking for guest bloggers and/or ideas to help student writers and aspiring writers.