The Bloggess Wordpreneur.com Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2012 - The Winners When we asked you to nominate your favorite writing blog as one of the top 10 blogs for writers, we got a huge response! Great to see how passionate readers are about their favorite writing blog. As you’ll see there are some previous winners, as well as some talented new bloggers in the top 10 of 2012. How were the winners selected? Initial qualification: A site must have been nominated more than once by multiple individuals. Jeff Goins Writer Positive Writer The Creative Penn Make a Living Writing The Write Practice Live Write Thrive Moody Writing The Romance University The Renegade Writer The Writers [Inner] Journey Congratulations to all the winners! The badge of distinction: If you are a winner, display the badge you see above on your blog and link the badge back to this page. Readers, be sure to check out these awesome blogs! And please help spread the word. We’ll be inviting the winners to guest post on WTD so that all our readers can get to know and enjoy these excellent bloggers.
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