I love reviewing the blog posts I’ve starred in Google Reader or sent to Instapaper to create my weekly list of favorites posts for the Friday Rerun so I thought compiling a list of what I thought were the best posts of 2009 would be a breeze – but it wasn’t easy! It took me three days to share my favorite posts from this year – about the writing life, the craft of writing and what it means to be creative – and here they are, compiled into a single post. Thank you to the writers who encouraged, inspired and taught me something this past year. 

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It’s time to rewind through some of the best blog posts of the week related to writing, books, creativity – and sometimes just some other fun but random stuff. Each Friday I link to my favorite posts of the week so you have another chance to catch an interesting post you might have missed or discover a new blogger.

Today I have the third and final part of my favorite posts of 2009 series – about the writing life, the craft of writing and what it means to be creative.

Today I've got part 2 of my favorite posts of 2009 – about the writing life, the craft of writing and what it means to be creative.

I love reviewing the blog posts I’ve starred in Google Reader or sent to Instapaper to create my weekly list of favorites posts for the Friday Rerun so I thought compiling a list of what I thought were the best posts of 2009 would be a breeze – but it wasn’t easy! So instead over the next three days I’ll be sharing my favorite posts from this year – about the writing life, the craft of writing and what it means to be creative.

It’s time to rewind through some of the best blog posts of the week related to writing, books, creativity – and sometimes just some other fun but random stuff. Each Friday I link to my favorite posts of the week so you have another chance to catch an interesting post you might have missed or discover a new blogger.

It seems that almost as soon as the clock struck midnight on November 30 and this year’s NaNoWriMo was declared over, the talk online turned to a single topic: Revision. There were so many posts that I compiled everything here into this Special Weekend Rerun post dedicated to revising, editing, and polishing that manuscript. A special thank you to Debbie Ridpath Ohi (@inkyelbows on Twitter) who tweeted some great revision posts this past week.

It’s time to rewind through some of the best blog posts of the week related to writing, books, creativity – and sometimes just some other fun but random stuff. Each Friday I link to my favorite posts of the week so you have another chance to catch an interesting post you might have missed or discover a new blogger.

The details of the first Procrastinating Writers essay contest were announced this week. The topic: "How I Overcame My Procrastination This Year."

The following post is based on a workshop Joe Finder presented at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference this past September about the 14 biggest mistakes even best-selling writers make.