Writing Inspiration Redux: 15 Posts Writers Keep Reading

In case you missed a few, and before we move on to all new material, here are the 15 most trafficked posts from 2014 (exclusive of the Friday Fridge Clean-Outs). I'm pleased so many are guest posts from my valued contributors. (And yes, I know "Top X" lists should be published before the new year begins; this is what happens when you schedule a post in advance for December 30, 2016). 

1. Saloma Furlong on Old Fashioned Virtues in a Digital Age: Perseverance and Networking

2.  Donna Baier Stein on Rejection, Writers of a Certain Age, and the Persistence of Hope

3.  C. Hope Clark on Why Writing What You Know Doesn't Mean You Know How to Write

4.  Alison Strack on Attending the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy

5.  Beware of What You Wish For (and What You Don’t): My Teaching Writing Update

6.  Kim Ablon Whitney on Writing Niche Novels, Writing What You Know

7.  Why Thank You is the Creative Nonfiction Writer's All-Purpose Response to Critics and Admirers Alike

8.  Nancy M. Williams on How Claiming Her Passion Transformed Her Writing Career

9. Janna Marlies Maron on Nonfiction, Art, and Publishing Under the Gum Tree

10.  A Reading, A Writer in the Family (no, two), A Coincidence (or not)

11.  Of Print, Pixels, and Publication

12.  Faye Rapoport DesPres on Combining Individual Essays into a Cohesive Collection

13.  Jennifer Walkup on 11 Ways Publishing a Book is Like Having Kids

14.  Acceptance After (Multiple) Rejections: It Only Takes One Yes, One Editor, One

15.  Banish the Inner Writing Critic? Maybe Not so Fast.

Thanks to all my readers!  And by the way, I'm now scheduling guest posts for the first half of this year; let me know if you have an idea.

Image: Flickr/Creative Commons, Kevin Dooley