I did manage to find DebNG (I think I joined just after she did), Dana/Marley, Kohuether, Shoemoney, and a very nice lady from the WAHM boards that I don’t actually know (TX Writer).

I know some of you are on twitter- I just can’t find you! So, if you’re there, please add me http://twitter.com/wordvixen , or send me your Twitter ID so that I can follow you! Thank you.

On another… note. I’ve been listening to classical music for two weeks. It helps me to not kill people. But today I was grabbed by the need to listen to woodwinds- so I did a search on my station provider for “woodwind”. Only a handful of stations came up, and I picked the only one that looked promising. It’s mostly bassoon.

While it suited my needs this morning (need mellow- quiet, not really music music), some of the “music” sounds like farting. I’m serious. I just listened to 5 minutes of what sounds like a college guy’s good night out. I’m simply amused by that, and it’s more than 140 characters. So I posted here.

I did put up a profile though- just in case. If you missed my previous post on it, here’s my NaNoWriMo profile. Drop me a comment with your profile if you want me to add you as friend. I’ve only got two so far.

Still, we sat and chatted for 7 hours, flipped through some writing magazines, and I brought home books. I love books. One was Plot and Structure, and the other was a novel for reviewing.

There’s nothing like getting to sit and talk about writing with other writers face to face. I love having the connection to everyone out in blogland, but every once in a while, it’s good to get out in the world. And… talk about… writing. Does that seem a little odd? Talk about writing?

We also discussed promotion a bit, so I think that’s something that we’re all going to be trying to get into for a while now.

On the one hand, if it’s a good promotional tactic it’s usually entertaining for me. On the other, it gives me ideas for the future. It’s also great promotion for their writers, because all of the writers reading those blogs then turn around, check out the links, and then post links and comments on their blogs. Remember this one? Mom and More posted it on her blog, then I posted the link to a comment on Miss Snark’s blog. It may have been a coincidence, but soon after that Miss Snark herself posted it on her blog, and who knows where it went from there? And that’s only one line. Just how far did that one website go?

So I was wondering, is anyone aware of any site or blog that writers or their agents/editors can and do post links to all/some of their promotional work? Such as the site above, and say, the Rebels of Romance’s YouTube video, etc? Contests, even listings of book signings? It just seems to me that it would benefit the authors as well as aspiring writers. I’m actually hoping that such a thing already exists and that one of you knows how to find it. If it doesn’t, I’m hoping one of you with some time (and knowlege) on their hands will build one. And tell me about it, please.

1. Communati- it’s basically a copy of my favorite (now extinct) blogging community which was called Writing Up. WU was packed with freelance writers and a few fiction writers as well. Communati uses the same easy template, and is starting out with a core group of bloggers who were displaced by the demise of WU. The upside is that more people are exposed to your writing as a result of each post going onto the main page as it’s posted. The downside is that you can’t decorate around your posts or choose colors. Lets just say that when WU was live, that was where I made most of my AdSense profits. I can see this site doing the same for me.

2. WritingDown- this is a MySpace group that was originally made to house those of us who were displaced by Writing Up’s demise. It’s begun to grow into a nice group atmosphere for all writers, though seems to lean more toward fiction writers. There are some great people on there, as well as an ongoing round robin type of story. Good for participation and discussions as opposed to standard post/comment interaction. If the link doesn’t work, just go to MySpace, then to Groups, and then search for WritingDown.