I use stumbleupon a lot and am surprised by how many good writer blogs there are there. I often favorite them as they seem to rise above the run of the mill sales pitch sites. I do not differentiate between famous or non-famous writers - if the writng's fresh and gripping, I rate it highly.

Experience of non-fiction writing I find particularly helpful and interesting too!

I think there's a huge value in the blog of an aspiring writer. I frequent many of them myself. I like being able to look at the blog of the person who wrote the book I'm reading and see that she struggled with chapter 5 or that her kid broke his arm when she was rewriting the introduction or that she had 5 rejections and that her publisher was driving her crazy at some point. There's something about a blog that makes a person "real" and when I fall in love with them as a person, I will buy anything they produce.


I blog, but I'm not really aspiring to publish a book at this point. I just blog to let off steam and keep in touch with family. I really don't know why people read mine, I feel so boring.

What are some of your favorite writer's blogs? I'm finally starting to research a non-fiction book that's been sitting in the back of my brain for quite a while and thought of doing a blog about it.

I'd like to see what others are doing.