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The Famous Joanna Thematic Link Posts Back to Challenge Me!

August 24, 2007 by Liz

Jan and Joanna Started It

thematic-links

If you recall Jan of Circular Communication wrote a wonderful guest post for Lorelle called Why A Link Post Should Be Like Mingling at a Party, and Joanna of Confident Writing used it as a springboard into a post of her own, How to write a links post. Joanna set out a list of criteria for writing quality, readable posts that link out.

I wrote up Joanna’s criteria and offered a challenge in a post of my own. The challenge said that I would take all of the link posts that readers wrote and use them to write a link story from them. Last night was the deadline to get your link post in.

It’s been hard keeping track of the individual posts. So, just to be sure that I’ve got everyone’s post before I start writing, I’m going to list them here. Do take a moment to read through them. I’ve found them to be some of the most billiant writing on the Internet.

Links Post Entries

Thank you to all who played along.

    Fan the Flames by GP

    Error Retrieving What You Wished For! Retry? Y/N by Alina

    Weekly Wrap-up: War on Clutter by Michael

    Shared Answers – Final Roundup & the Winner by Yvonne Russell

    How to Best Pitch Bloggers – a Virtual Group Interview by Jan

    Why go out and Play when you can be Inside Blogging? by Andrea

    A learning whirlpool by Anastasia

    How to read feeds without driving yourself mad by Joanna

    Blog writing with a purpose by Joanna

    I’m just writing to say thanks by Joanna

    When writing means spirit spilling by Joanna

    Linking with intention by Joanna

    The Recommended Weekly Readings (2007-08-18). Project Management by Mike

    Why Writing a Link Post Should Be Like Planning a Party by Jan

    Google and the Privacy Dilemma by Brad

    A New Week by Jon

I’ll give this a day. Please, if you don’t see yours here, leave the link in the comment box below. Thank you. I don’t want to leave anyone out . . . and you don’t want to make my quest too easy. You see . . .

Now my challenge, should decide I wish to keep blogging here, is to do as I promised — write a story post linking all of these thematic link posts together in the tradition of 301 Link Posts in a Story.

What was I thinking when I volunteered to do that? Actually, coming up with tale about these should be fun!

Anyone want to offer some character names and a setting or two?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

Related
A List Becomes 301 Links in Story — Chapter 1

Update: This now includes Jnswanson’s entry. Is yours Here?

Filed Under: Links, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, Thematic-link-posts, Writing-Challenge

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