What’s Trending on WordDreams
In the past quarter, I’ve posted about 40 articles on topics ranging from writer resources, how-to’s, descriptors, and opinions. I like to step back a few times a year and determine what readers are most interested in. WordPress makes that easy with their statistics.
Here’s this period’s run-down:
51 Great Similes to Spark Imagination
178 Ways to Describe Women’s Clothing
35 Weird Traits Your Characters May Have
How to Describe a Landscape
How to Describe Nature
How to Describe a Person’s Clothing
Word Count by Genre
Characteristics That Make Your Character Memorable
Plotting a Story–with a Spreadsheet
103 Most Beautiful Words? You Decide
Interesting, isn’t it? 9 out of 10 are descriptions. That tells me, writers visit my blog to hone skills, not for my opinions (which is good because I’m not terribly opinionated, and those I have, I’m happy to keep between my husband and myself and my critique group).
What do you think?
Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman , the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com and TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, monthly contributor to Today’s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. In her free time, she is editor of technology training books for how to integrate technology in education. Currently, she’s editing a techno-thriller that should be out to publishers next summer.
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