If you know Copyblogger, you know that. Jeff writes about the process of becoming a professional writer, including what it takes to get published and how to succeed at the creative life without losing your marbles. Joe Bunting and Liz Bureman focus on one of my own favorite success factors — deliberate practice. Any writer will get a lot out of this creativity-boosting site. Media professor and speaker Jane Friedman focuses on how technology affects us as writers, marketers, and people. Once again, Joanna Penn makes the Top Ten list with her popular blog on writing, publishing, and book promotion. Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi offer a warm and friendly take on the craft of writing, social networking for writers, and more. Ollin Morales makes the list again with his passionate, creative blog about his own journey as a novelist. Novelist and screenwriter Chuck Wendig offers advice, information, and attitude in equal measure. She offers lots of advice for fiction writers to improve their craft and create publishable work, as well as reading guides and other material for readers. Congratulations to all of the finalists and winners! You can find the finalists on the site. Thanks for consistently putting your passion into words. We love our creative writing colleagues, but we also love the brilliant copywriters and content marketers out there. So look for our own list of a few favorite copywriting and content marketing blogs coming later this week. Let us know about it in the comments. About the Author: Sonia Simone is co-founder and CMO of Copyblogger Media. Share your favorite writing resources with her on. At the risk of being immodest, please check out my site,. Thanks for checking it out — and thank you for bringing the winning sites to my attention. Walking through his archives is a real treat! His blog has audio interviews and really helpful and insightful and often funny blog posts. You can find it at. For posting this list. It was an honor to be featured on the list for the second year in a row, and an honor to be listed among some fantastic blogs. Secondly, congrats to the finalists and the nominated blogs. I encourage everyone here to check out the finalists and the blogs that were nominated. It was a stellar group this year, truly outstanding. Also, special thanks to Sonia, Brian, Jon and the rest of the Copyblogger team. Your articles are invaluable to EVERY kind of writer and they have been certainly invaluable to me. Hope you all have a great New Year! This made my day! My writing focus is now much more business-related …such is what happens when you go into conversion copywriting , but I love to write creatively and these seem like great resources. Allowing the creative juices to flow also ultimately helps bettering my writing across the board — this has just inspired me to get back into it! Thanks again for this. Becca and I were bowled over to be grouped with all these amazing blogs. If someone nominated more than one blog, only the first nomination was counted. Valid nominations needed to include the URL and give a reason why the nominated blog should be considered. In order to qualify, at least 5 out of the 10 posts written prior 22 November 2011 when the call for nominations went out needed to be about writing and not not about freelancing, business, publishing, etc. The number of nominations accounted for 15% of the total score. These three blog-based factors make up 45% of the final score. The quality of posts accounts for 55% of the final score. There was no ranking of the final Top 10 or at least no indication of ranking as there was the previous year. In the context of other comments about the missing quality blogs, 2 is the key factor i. I actually used to believe that 100%. Hemingway, for example, had the Kansas City Star and then Gertrude Stein and then the great Max Perkins to guide him. A more recent example, David Foster Wallace, studied under Marilynne Robinson and then got his MFA at UofA. The truth is that more writers than not had some kind of coach, whether that coach is a parent, a teacher, an editor, or all of the above.
