Top 25 Terribleminds Posts Of 2011
This blog has seen its readership swell like a shoulder suffering from bursitis, like a river-sunk corpse, like me at Christmastime. (MMM COOKIES THEN BOURBON THEN COOKIES WHY PANTS NO FIT NOW FALL ASLEEP UNDER TREE ZZZZ) I mean, for real — in 2011, readership here almost quadrupled. I'm not sure if you're here because you think the site is funny or offers wisdom or simply because you like when I make poop jokes and say "motherfucker," but whatever the reason, I'm happy you're here.
It's always interesting to see which posts strike a chord and which don't — which ones catch fire and go "viral" via sites like Stumbleupon or what-have-you. Most of these top posts of the year come from this year, which is cool. A few standbys from 2010 show up again (dang, that Beware of Writer post keeps popping up here and there), but most of these are from the last 12 months. Plainly, the "Lists of 25″ posts are popular — I know some folks don't like "list" blog posts, and to them I apologize. It's just, lists are easily digestible online reading. You can read and skip and easily break a single post down into digestible snidbits. It also, for me, forces me to put more content in a given post. Each item needs to be packed with potent writer-flavored antioxidants, so (as with Twitter) it demands a certain brevity.
Anyway. Here, then, are the top 25 posts of the year here at jolly old terribleminds.
Thanks for coming by here, you silly little marmosets, you. I should ask:
What was your favorite post of the year?
1. 25 Things Every Writer Should Know
2. 25 Things You Should Know About Character
4. 25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters
5. Turning Writers Into Motherfucking Rock Stars
6. Why Your Novel Won't Get Published
7. 25 Things You Should Know About NaNoWriMo
8. Why Your Self-Published Book May Suck A Bag Of Dicks
9. Six Signs You're Not Ready To Be A Professional Writer
10. No, Seriously, I'm Not Fucking Around, You Really Don't Want To Be A Writer
11. 25 Things You Should Know About Storytelling
12. 25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue
13. Of Google-Plus And Circle Jerks
14. NaNoWhoNow? NaNoWriMo Dos And Don'ts
15. 25 Things You Should Know About Self-Publishing
16. 25 Ways To Become A Better Writer
17. 25 Things Writers Should Know About Rejection
18. 25 Things You Should Know About Plot
19. 25 Things You Should Know About Writing A Novel
20. How To Tell If You're A Writer
22. 25 Things You Should Know About Writing Horror
23. 25 Things Writers Should Know About Social Media
24. 25 Ways To Plot, Plan and Prep Your Story
