It’s very simple – you go to this page: http://www.sydneywriterscentre.com.au/bloggingcomp/peopleschoice.html and click through to the Voting Page. All the blogs are listed alphabetically, so click through to the Ts for The Word (which is this blog, obviously), and check the box. Add your name and email address at the end and job done.

I’d be very grateful.

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Plus I’ve added a few more links to the Writers, Publishing & Spec Fic sites list on the Links Page. Now you’ll also find there the blogs of Gillian Polack, Pat Bertram and Felicity Dowker. All well worth a look, all spec fic writers of considerable skill and all generally top people. Can’t ask for more than that.

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And I’ve been nominated. I know, hard to believe, but it’s true. The Word is listed in the Fiction Writing category here. Any of you good readers that enjoy this blog, I’d love it if you could take a moment to drop in over there and vote for me.

You have to be a registered member of the Editor Unleashed forums to cast your vote, but that’s a pretty simple sign up process. Once signed up you don’t need to ever worry about it again, or you can check in once in a while and enjoy a really interesting and vibrant writing community. If you register in order to vote you’ll get an email to confirm your registration – you need to click back on the link in that email before you’ll be able to cast your votes.

Vote in the other categories too while you’re there. If you don’t know the blogs in the other categories, have a look at them. There are some really top blogs nominated and I must say, I’m rathered honoured to be listed among them.

Thanks in advance for any votes.

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As Jonathan says, “Many people have recommended blogs to me for inclusion on the list over the last two weeks and not all of them were included. Sometimes, they weren’t sufficiently about the act of writing. Even though the blog owner may be a writer, if the topics of the blog did not cover advice and observations on life as a writer, it wasn’t included. A blog by a writer that only discusses their daily non-writerly activities could not be considered a blog about writing. Sometimes the blogs hadn’t been updated for months and therefore could be considered to be inactive. Some blogs discussed books and reading but not writing and therefore did not fit the mould.”

So, not only do we now have a list of 50 really interesting and useful blogs (some of which I already follow and some of which are a very nice find), The Word is also included among them. And it’s not just based on peoples’ opinions. Jonathan has ranked the list of blogs using things like the Technorati ranking, the Page Rank and so on. So I guess I must be doing something right. And I would also like to throw a shout out to my good friend James Frost, in chilly Scotland, for his help with website support and SEO. I couldn’t do all this technomological malarkey on my own.

Check out the post at Jonathan’s blog and have a look at a few of these sites. There’s some that are really worth your while.

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