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Every year during the Blogatho<\/a>n get to explore the word stylings of writers I’ve never read. In some lights, this could be a burden: I have limited time and so many good words to read. But in another light — the one I use to illuminate my life — there can’t be enough good writing in the world, and if I die not having read all of it, well, at least I will have given it a good college try.<\/p>\n

So here are five blogs about writing I discovered through this year’s blogathon. These are habits in the making.<\/p>\n

I read Jennifer Willis<\/a> blog for the first time a few days ago. She commented on my blog post about RA<\/a> and what I’m willing to risk to get rid of it. I clicked on her name and came to this post<\/a> about her writing goals and how they intersect with her health. That’s all it took to hook me. I’ve had fun browsing around her site. She’s a fine writer. She should be really famous.<\/p>\n

Janine Robinson’s Essay Hell<\/a> hits close to home. Darling Son is 16 in a couple weeks. College applications are fast approaching, and while my son is a good writer — how gratifying to me! — he’ll need help with his college application essays and he won’t take it from me. From Janine? Maybe not. But from a website with a swear word in its title? You bet.<\/p>\n

Jean Gogolin’s Writer’s Clinic<\/a> blog is engaging. There’s always a question asked, a thought to ponder. It’s not just opining about writing, but asking for the reader to consider some aspect of the craft — humor, the merits of outlining for a big project, blood and gore.<\/p>\n

For some of us, writing daily requires a prompt. And blogathons, writing challenges like NaNoWriMo<\/a>, and contests are one way of doing that. Rosanna Rogacion’s Writing on the Pages of Life<\/a> got me interested in her blog through a post<\/a> that had a list of other writing events. It just takes a good post to get me interested enough in your site to start paging through. Good job, Rosanna! You caught me!<\/p>\n

Marial Shea’s Marial Writes<\/a> is a new favorite. Whether she’s pointing you to a great site like 750 Words<\/a> or admitting her own fears about blogging (hey Marial! Look at the post <\/a>I highlighted on Writing the Pages of Life — more prompts to making writing a habit.), she writes entertainingly. And you know me, I like a good read.<\/p>\n

I still regularly read Michelle Rafter’s Wordcount\u00a0 <\/a>and Jennie Phipps’ Freelance Success<\/a> blog, and there are others I read occasionally when someone points me to a particularly interesting post. But I’m open to reading other writing blogs regularly.<\/p>\n

Do you have a suggestion? Leave a comment: I’d rather have too much too read than too little.<\/p>\n

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