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  • 5th Annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest

    All right, guys. It looks like the 5th Annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest is being held for this year. Folks are over there nominating their favorite blogs written specifically for the in-depth edification and entertainment, the support and encouragement, the comedy and companionship, the sheer on-going benefit of our vast, shifting, complex, sometimes rueful, often bamboozled, always intriguing online community of writers.

    Actually, I made all that stuff up. But they really are looking for nominations.

    Boy, howdy, you get to vote! Who’s your favorite blogger for writers?

    (You do realize there’s a particular answer I’m looking for here.)

    (And, yes, you do have to go vote on their site, not mine.)

    6 Comments

6 Responses to “5th Annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest”

  1. Michael Kelberer said on November 13th, 2010 at 5:39 am

    Hi VIctoria,
    Well, of course I like yours, but my top blog is Rosanne Bane’s:
    http://baneofyourresistance.wordpress.com/
    Which is on your blogroll as well…
    Best,
    Michael

  2. Deanna Schrayer said on November 13th, 2010 at 9:56 am

    Yippee! My nomination, for your site of course Victoria, has been submitted.

    Though I’ve only recently discovered you, your words have inspired me and helped improve my craft immensely, and I appreciate you very much!

  3. Kathryn said on November 13th, 2010 at 1:31 pm

    I nominated you, too. I’ve lost patience with “writing” blogs that dwell on trips to the dentist and visits from in-laws. I want a source I can count on to intelligently cover topics relevant to improving my writing.

    That you are also able to incorporate laughs and encouragement is a wonderful bonus!

  4. Gabrielle Renoir-Large said on November 17th, 2010 at 12:26 am

    I have to nominate you…and me! :)

    http://literarycornercafe.blogspot.com/

  5. Gina Penney said on November 17th, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    Your blog is wonderful! I am in love with the way you write. You have such a conversational tone yet it doesn’t feel so loosely informal.

    Another blog I rely heavily upon is Ricki Schultz’s “My Daytime Drama”:

    http://rickischultz.wordpress.com/

  6. Victoria said on November 18th, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    You all are darling, and I love you. And you are going over and voting over on the 5th Annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest site, aren’t you? Because I can only take nominations here for blogs OTHER than my own. :)




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Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.