17. What You Can Learn from the Submissions Process
18. You Can Get Back in the Game
19. Cons, Panels, and Big Names vs. You
21. What Readers Want/What Blog Readers Want. Reaching A Broader Blog Audience. Why Writing Blogs Don’t Help Writers, or do they?
22. I don’t know if pets are people, too; but we can certainly learn people-related lessons from them.
23. People-watching ans Story Inspiration
24. More on Self-publishing. And more.
25. More on the Digital Transformation
27. Writers are Hypochondriacs
28. Conlangs are one of my favorite topics. For a long time, I’ve considered building a language on the blog, posting once a week. Unfortunately, the incredibly awesome Chris Doty over on the Clarion Foundation blog beat me to it.
29. Jim Butcher on Writing over at Clarion Foundation
32. Selling Books is Not a Bonus
33. I have a book problem. Thankfully, I am not alone.
34. Social media has become a powerful force. Even anonymous social media. Like FML. Or LikeALittle, which allows users to flirt anonymously. Own your flirts, people. Or better yet, just walk up to him and say something!
35. Maintaining Tension Makes Better Books
36. Contemporary Fiction is Not Boring
37. How To Keep Your Short Stories Short by Lydia Sharp
38. Unfinished Manuscripts Can Be Avoided
39. Plotting, Pansting, and Writing Rituals
40. Fast Writing and Writing Software
41. What Do Yoour Books Say About You?
42. More on Branding
43. I’ve resisted using writing software for so long. I’ve tried a few programs, and they always seemed more stifling than supportive. But I keep hearing authors singing the praises of Scrivener. I might have to give it a shot.
44. More Agents As Publishers Something I’m still on the fence about, assuming there are safeguards involved.
46. Anecdotes aren’t evidence, and reviews aren’t sales.
48. Emotional Truth in Fiction
49. Giving Your Reader a Happy Ending
50. Five Ways to Improve Your Writing with Janice Hardy
51. How To Keep Up Online. Ironically, it mentions the value of round-up posts. 
52. Choosing Narrative Distance
53. What Juliette Wade Looks For in Critique Partners
54. Making Your Characters Cry Is Not Enough
55. Start With A World or Start With A Story?
Whenever I’ve read blogging round-ups in the past, they’ve always been relatively short. Maybe 15 or 20 links at the most. When I look at my two round-up posts, 32 and 56 links respectively, I can’t understand why there’s such a difference. I’ve mentioned before that I read a lot of posts a week. Usually 200 or more. That’s from about 30 or 40 blogs. Which means about 4-5 posts a week on average. In fact, you’ll notice if you go to all the links that I’ve linked to several blogs multiple times. Because I have a bit of layman’s OCD, I read every single one of these posts. I also do it because each of these blogs offers me something I can’t get from any of the other blogs I read.
And there are many more blogs out there that I don’t read. But I assume many of them are blogs that could provide their own value to me. I don’t think anyone will disagree that there’s a glut of blogs out there. There are probably more blogs that could provide value to a person than they could keep up with reading 24/7. But are bloggers overloading their blogs with content? Many blog readers are loyal, meaning they read posts even if they don’t end up giving value. Does this do a disservice to blog readers? Could cutting down on the posts actually increase page views by giving readers more time to read a variety of blogs? And finally, should a blogger be selfish and do whatever they can to increase their own pageviews, or is there a benefit to directiing some of that traffic somewhere else?
Arlee Bird
August 3, 2011 at 1:11 AM
oh my god! This is madness! I can’t keep up!
There is some great stuff here though.
Lee
Tossing It Out
atsiko
August 3, 2011 at 2:11 AM
Yeah, I can’t keep up, either. Thus the two posts 3 days late, and the questions at the end. And every time I do this, I find a ton of new blogs to follow. XD
It’s actually a good thing right now, though, because it’s keeping my mind off certain other stuff.