It’s always good to take time throughout your life to review the past. This is particularly true for people who do creative work for a living. It helps you find the thread of your work. It helps you define themes in your art. And it just gives you perspective on where you’ve come from so that you can better see where you want to go.
This is done in many ways for writers. I keep a regular journal. It times of life that are emotionally confusing or times when I need to go back to the basics of who I am, I can mine those journals for insight. Photo scrapbooks can be mined in similar ways. In blogging, the best thing to do is to regularly look at your favorite posts and favorite themes.
So, in honor of that, I want to share my review of the best things on this Real Words blog in the month of March …
By far my favorite post (and the favorite of readers, apparently, since it’s been the most visited) was 10,000 Resources for Writers and Bloggers.
However, my favorite theme isn’t writing tips and resources but rather the posts that I have penned on green writing. I think it’s really important to work towards being eco-kind in our writing so I enjoyed providing information on 10 Eco-Harmful Habits of Writers and Adding Green Links to your Website. Green Writing is going to be a once-weekly Real Words column on Tuesdays from here on out.
Although it wasn’t my favorite post, the most commented-on post in March was my piece posing the idea that Typos Don’t Really Matter. I imagine that’s a controversial thing for a writer to say! And I stress that I always proofread my work since I know it matters to most people but that my point was I don’t mind typos at all as a reader of other people’s work.
Question of the Day: What was your favorite Real Words post from March?
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