Happy New Year! I got to finish out my year with a much-needed pat on the back from one of the fantastic members of our community:
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Andrew named this blog as one of his top 9 writing blogs of 2009 for content, community and the “it” factor—you know, me 
. Aside from including me, I can vouch for the quality of his list: I already read more than half of those ranked, and have learned so much from them this last year.
As kind of a post-script to our series on bad advice, I also want to point out a little good advice, such as highlighted on Romance University this week.
We’ll talk about setting goals on Monday. For now, just enjoy the novelty of the year and the long weekend! Feel free to share the best writing advice you’ve received—but I have big plans for that topic later in the year.
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Looking forward to what you have in store this year!
Congrats on your blog award!
Here’s to a Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Jordan! I agree with Andrew… your blog has excellent content for both new and not-so-new writers. Kudos to you.
As for the best advice I’ve received, I think it would have to be not to let learning and preparing to write take the place of actually writing. We spend a lot of time reading what others tell us about writing, but sometimes that’s a procrastination technique. We need to sit down and just write.
Big congrats on this! You do a great job and I love all the information you give us.