{"id":12078,"date":"2011-12-27T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2011-12-27T06:46:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T11:46:44","slug":"top-25-terribleminds-posts-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/12\/27\/top-25-terribleminds-posts-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 Terribleminds Posts Of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog has seen its readership swell like a shoulder suffering from bursitis, like a river-sunk corpse, like me at Christmastime. (MMM COOKIES THEN BOURBON THEN COOKIES WHY PANTS NO FIT NOW FALL ASLEEP UNDER TREE ZZZZ) I mean, for real — in 2011, readership here almost quadrupled<\/em>. I’m not sure if you’re here because you think the site is funny or offers wisdom or simply because you like when I make poop jokes and say “motherfucker,” but whatever the reason, I’m happy you’re here.<\/p>\n

It’s always interesting to see which posts strike a chord and which don’t — which ones catch fire and go “viral” via sites like Stumbleupon or what-have-you. Most of these top posts of the year come from this year, which is cool. A few standbys from 2010 show up again (dang, that Beware of Writer<\/strong> post keeps popping up here and there), but most of these are from the last 12 months. Plainly, the “Lists of 25” posts are popular — I know some folks don’t like “list” blog posts, and to them I apologize. It’s just, lists are easily digestible online reading. You can read and skip and easily break a single post down into digestible snidbits. It also, for me, forces me to put more content in a given post. Each item needs to be packed with potent writer-flavored antioxidants, so (as with Twitter) it demands a certain brevity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anyway. Here, then, are the top 25 posts of the year here at jolly old terribleminds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Thanks for coming by here, you silly little marmosets, you. I should ask:<\/p>\n

What was your<\/em> favorite post of the year?<\/p>\n

1. 25 Things Every Writer Should Know<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. 25 Things You Should Know About Character<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Beware Of Writer<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

4. 25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

5. Turning Writers Into Motherfucking Rock Stars<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

6. Why Your Novel Won\u2019t Get Published<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7. 25 Things You Should Know About NaNoWriMo<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

8. Why Your Self-Published Book May Suck A Bag Of Dicks<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

9. Six Signs You\u2019re Not Ready To Be A Professional Writer<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10. No, Seriously, I\u2019m Not Fucking Around, You Really Don\u2019t Want To Be A Writer<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

11. 25 Things You Should Know About Storytelling<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

12. 25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

13. Of Google-Plus And Circle Jerks<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

14. NaNoWhoNow? NaNoWriMo Dos And Don\u2019ts<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

15. 25 Things You Should Know About Self-Publishing<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

16. 25 Ways To Become A Better Writer<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

17. 25 Things Writers Should Know About Rejection<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

18.<\/strong> 25 Things You Should Know About Plot<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

19.<\/strong> 25 Things You Should Know About Writing A Novel <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

20.<\/strong> How To Tell If You\u2019re A Writer<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

21.<\/strong> Lies Writers Tell<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

22.<\/strong> 25 Things You Should Know About Writing Horror<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

23.<\/strong> 25 Things Writers Should Know About Social Media<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

24.<\/strong> 25 Ways To Plot, Plan and Prep Your Story<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

25.<\/strong> Why Writers Drink<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always interesting to see which posts strike a chord and which don’t — which ones catch fire and go “viral” via sites like Stumbleupon or what-have-you. Most of these top posts of the year come from this year, which is cool. A few standbys from 2010 show up again (dang, that Beware of Writer post keeps popping up here and there), but most of these are from the last 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,30,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-12078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-advice","8":"tag-terribleminds","9":"tag-writing","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-38O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12089,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}