{"id":734,"date":"2013-06-11T19:57:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2013-06-11T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:57:42","slug":"blog-love-part-1-five-writing-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/blog-love-part-1-five-writing-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog love, part 1: Five Writing Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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Every year during the Blogathon 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[532,166,35,478,36],"tags":[793],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon","category-reading","category-words","category-writers","category-writing","tag-wordcount-blogathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}