Whoa-dang. Been a big year here.<\/p>\n
To my surprise and delight, the site has grown yet again in 2013. We have over 3500 subscribers and this year will take us over the 3 million hit mark which is, you know, it’s mind-boggling and eye-goggling and giddy-making and all that. YOU LIKE ME. YOU REALLY LIKE ME.<\/p>\n
My goal as always here is to:<\/p>\n
a) try to enlighten\/inform<\/p>\n
when that fails —<\/p>\n
b) try to make you laugh<\/p>\n
when\u00a0that<\/em> fails —<\/p>\n c) try to dazzle and confuse you with creative profanity.<\/p>\n Hopefully, I’m succeeding.<\/p>\n I see the site gets talked about in different places and seems to have fans up and down the spectrum of writers — from just-starting-neophytes to practiced professionals to the vengeful wraiths of dead authors. This isn’t strictly a writing blog, as obviously I use it to talk about lots of other things (toddler, liquor, coffee, food, culture, things, stuff, doohickeys, pornography, chimpanzees, unicorns, badgers, hobos, Night Ranger, hippogriffs, Cosby sweaters, and dildos).<\/p>\n Plus, it’s nice that a lot of what was here on the blog seemed to connect well — enough to demand the publication of\u00a0The Kick-Ass Writer<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, which I’m told is doing well? Woo.<\/p>\n Thanks for checking out the site, obviously. I’ll have a few changes in store for the coming year (one of them I’ll be mentioning tomorrow, actually).<\/p>\n If you have requests for things you’d like me to talk about or suggestions for design changes, do scream it in the comments below and I’ll see what I can do.<\/p>\n You can also ask me things via Tumblr<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Anywho, if you care to see the top posts of 2013, boom. Got ’em below. (These are technically the top 2013 posts of 2013 — the actual top posts of the year include several from 2011 and 2012 yet, too, that sites like StumbleUpon continue to drive traffic toward.)<\/p>\n You’ll note that two of these top posts are by the magical sylph being known as “Delilah Dawson.”<\/p>\n Because she’s rad and you should be reading her books and stuff<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n 25 Things You Should Know About Young Adult Fiction<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n How To Push Past The Bullshit And Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan To Get Shit Done<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 25 Steps To Being A Traditionally-Published Author, by Delilah S. Dawson<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 25 Things To Know About Sexism & Misogyny In Publishing<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 25 Hard Truths About Writing & Publishing<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 25 Turns, Pivots, And Twists To Complicate Your Story<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 25 Humpalicious Steps For Writing Your First Sex Scene, by Delilah S. Dawson<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 25 Things You Should Know About Narrative Point-of-View<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\nTop Posts of 2013<\/h2>\n