Real Words

People who know me from either of my blogs may know that I really enjoy participating in blog carnivals. This is where you submit a favorite post from your blog to a theme-based collection of other blog posts. It’s a great way to see what other bloggers are writing about, get exposed to writing on the web that you hadn’t seen before and get some perspective on a theme that you sometimes write about.

A post here from Real Words about the hassles of travel and travel writing has been included this week in a blog carnival over at Everything Worth Reading. This carnival includes a really diverse range of different topics and there are some great writers included here.

My favorite posts from this carnival were, not surprisingly, the posts about writing. These included thoughts on journal writing and blogging, tips on how to write a short story, a review of a short story collection by Miranda July, and several samples from fiction writing.

The writing posts weren’t the only interesting reads from this blog carnival though. There was also a lot of great social commentary on topics including video games, the elderly, penny dishes, Somali pirates, lithium, driver’s license renewal, frugal living and trips to the fertility clinic.

In addition to these posts, there were some posts that were just plain fun to read like the one on a run-in with a sexy cop, the one debating the merits of the window seat vs the aisle seat and thoughts on the importance of holding on to your dreams and living life fully.

Great stuff!

And this isn’t even the only blog carnival I’ve participated in lately. A selection from my other blog, San Francisco is Sexy, was also just included in a blog carnival.

Happy reading!