27 Things This Writer Loved About 2007

1. Blogging and WordPress – It has never been easier for writers to find an audience
2. StumbleUpon — They send me more traffic than anyone but Google. If you aren’t a member, sign up now!
3. OneNote — Finally, Microsoft released a product that a writer can love
4. Lulu– It has never been faster or cheaper to put a book into print
5. PhraseExpress — Put your boilerplate on speed dial
6. FreelanceSwitch – They write about freelancing so I don’t have to
7. Indeed – A great place to look for a job
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows — It’s finally over
9. 30 Poems in 30 Days — It brought a lot of new friends to the site
10. NaNoWriMo – 50,000 words in 30 Days!
11. The 4-Hour Workweek — The book about business every writer should read
12. Google Reader — The best place to keep track of all my favorite blogs
13. Zen Habits — I was at least 4% less angry this year thanks to Leo
14. ProBlogger – And my blog was at least 4% better thanks to Darren
15. Blind Date With Cavafy — My favorite book of poetry this year
16. The Comics Curmudgeon — Comic strips today are just plain lousy, and Josh makes that funny
17. Pearls Before Swine — Proof that comic strips can still be funny
18. Superbad– Proof that teen sex comedies can still be well-written
19. Californication – The best show about a washed-up, immature, sex-obsessed writer since Murder She Wrote
20. Fresh Air — Every year, Terry Gross keeps getting creative people to talk about process without becoming an SNL parody
21. Tucson Weekly — The only newspaper left in my home town that is worth reading
22. Free software — Some things are worth the lack of price
23. The Well-Fed Self Publisher — Every writer who wants to understand the publishing business should read it
24. Low-Carb Monster Energy Drink — Without it, half this blog would not get written
25. The Daily Show / The Colbert Report — This double punch is not only funny, it’s given hundreds of writers exposure they would never have gotten otherwise
26. Want to Write a Novel Badly? Here’s How! — My most popular article this year
27. WiFi — 2007 was the year that wireless Internet really came of age and I was finally able to blog from anywhere, which coincidentally is where I am most of the time!

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