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There are a couple of new writer’s websites I’m keeping my eye on.
Write to Done
This is an interesting website, attractively designed, with nice color pictures heading all their articles (much as I’ve begun doing of late). It has a very professional look, but that’s actually my main concern with the blog. It’s too pretty, and after a cursory glance at some of the articles–some of use and some, as you would expect, filler–I can tell that this blog is designed by a person who understands very well what it takes to make a blog attractive to readers, but is there really any meat at all? It’s maintained by the same guy who runs the Zen Habits blog, which is a Technorati Top 100 blog. So his writing is readable and definitely attractive, but it remains to be seen how useful Write to Done will be for a writer like me.
Write, write, write
Steven Brust and a couple of other writers are collaborating on this blog. It’s much less pretty than WtD, but at the same time there does seem to be some meat in some of their posts. There’s filler here, too, as the blog is run a bit more blog-like, with asides and commentary. And it’s written by writers, not bloggers; Steven Brust himself is an accomplished author who could have some good advice for us up-and-comers.
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