Tina Haapala, Excuse Editor

A quick note from the desk of the Excuse Editor: I'm making my way around the world of social networking. My Space  was left to collect dust when I discovered Facebook  (I'll be announcing the Excuse Editor Fan Page soon). I even discovered the Writer's Digest Community . But it's taken a while to talk myself into 'tweeting'. Still not totally conviced, I signed up anyway. I'm certainly not a singing songbird yet, but you can find my sporadic tweets at http://twitter.com/ExcuseEditor . While navigating around the one and two liners, I came across a 'novel' idea. Did you ever play this writing game?: Someone starts off a story with one or two sentences, and then each person in the room adds one sentence at a time. I vaguely remember enjoying this as a kid. I did this for some 5th graders when I was substitute teaching one day and they had a great time with it. Well, I came across the Twitter account, http://twitter.com/Tweet2Novel . It seems l...