Using Twitter has been likened to "drinking from a firehose." Are you feeling thirsty? A full understanding of how to get the most out of Twitter can help you as a writer do a better job of marketing yourself and your writing. Workshop member Stephen Manning will present a class on smart use of Twitter, 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21, at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. The registration fee is $55. Please visit TCU's Extended Education web site at www.lifelong.tcu.edu for more details and to register. Register by Monday, Jan. 18 to make sure you get a seat!

Just noticed that our Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/dfw_writers) is up to 1,135 visitors! That's fantastic and the great thing about it is, a lot of that happened on its own, with people finding us instead of us going out and tackling people.

Thanks to all of you tweeters for your support! By the way this blog is linked to the Twitter account, so it's a great way to keep track of updates to this site.

For those of you who aren't already following, the Workshop has a Twitter feed: DFW_Writers. And it's linked to this blog, so important updates posted here will appear there as well. Convenient, what?