I went. I heard. I tweeted what resonated most with me.

• We’re in it – Skip Hollandsworth, all about “Bernie”
• This is a story you don’t get in the way of – Skip Hollandsworth
• Only when readers feel will they begin to think it through – Jeff Guinn
• Unconventional warfare is a cancer we pour in and once we do that, it’s hard to control – Tony Schwalm, The Guerrilla Factory
• There are no shortcuts in the process of owning your material – Jim Hornfischer
• OH at #Mayborn: “Because the person who comes back is not the person who left” – what migration/immigration and military memoir share
• Truth and courage – Alfredo Corchado, Reyna Grande
• I look for the voice, the voice that will carry it – agent Bonnie Nadell, on book proposals
• In democracy no decision is more profound than war and peace – Rick Atkinson
• In good narrative history, there is no foreseeable future – Rick Atkinson
• Public figures deserve their complexity – Kevin Merida
• I was always trying to write about this cosmic wrong – Donna Britt
• I said everything except this is a story about the healing power of love – Kelly Benham
• Storytelling can be a healing process, a wounding process – Tom Huang
• I probably should’ve run – Hugh Aynesworth, JFK eyewitness
• JFK 50 years later. Here’s a story from a Dallas reporter who was there http://t.co/05iCF8ynwy
• Love favors the prepared heart. – John Valliant
• I spent a year writing a pitch letter. Front-loading works well – John Valliant
• In memoir writing, there are ways to take a powerful memory and nail down the corners – Amanda Bennett
• It was, in the end, a love story – Amanda Bennett
• A photo can be simultaneously clear in its storytelling ability and confusing – Paul Hendrickson
• Westword’s Alan Prendergast tells the #Mayborn tribe that the original new journalists used archival research more than they let on.
• In those silences that follow your questions, you must use your imagination as well as your research to understand – Helen Benedict
• Editors see the holes in the logic that you can’t – Susan Orlean
• It’s just not the #Mayborn until Bill Marvel asks a question
• Archives have the good stuff; and can be more intimate than the interview – Susan Orlean
• There is a radiant quality to a story that has that longer timeline – Susan Orlean
• @LowellMBrown Yes. Chickens are very popular in the twitterverse
• To start on twitter, tweet about your chickens  – Susan Orlean

You can follow me at @phwolfeDRC. Or find more searching #Mayborn. Or read Michael Merschel’s story (paywall) which underscores that, if you went, you could not continue to think that journalists are “heartless, self-centered or careless.” We showed, amply, that we have heart.