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(www.inkthinkerblog.com) — I read over on Freelance Parent and confirmed on Writing White Papers that nominations are now open for the 2008/2009 Top 10 Blogs for Writers competition. As of this post, there are already more than 200 nominations and "Me too!"s, with a ton of awesome blogs in the mix.

My friend Mike Stelzner at Writing White Papers is one of the people I owe thanks to for this blog’s success. After FWJ was voted second in his first annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers in 2006, my traffic went way up as did community participation. FWJ was also number 2 in last year’s vote.

From the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, June 2008: Speaker: Michael Stelzner, Author, Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged It’s time to stop selling and start educating prospects. Numerous studies place white papers at the top of the marketing heap for sought after content.

FREE Teleconference Thursday (Lead Gen. & White Papers) May 14th, 2008, by Michael Stelzner Join myself and Brian Carroll (author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale) for a LIVE (free) teleconference this Thursday, May 15th at 3pm Pacific. Brian is a lead generation guru and, well, you know me :).

Tips to Speed Your Writing May 12th, 2008, by Michael Stelzner Do you find your writing needs a turbo boost? Is it hard to get the words out of your head? If so, check out this video: Receive email updates when new articles are posted. Posted in Writing White Papers

You might already have seen these videos from Michael Stelzner, maybe on another blog or you might have seen me tweet (about four times, heh) how good they are. If not, go take a look now. Why am I pushing you to go look at videos on White Papers? Very simple reason really.

Michael Stelzner of Writing White Papers blog fame has garnered a barrage of bloggy notice for his recent (and ongoing) free video releases. He offers you an interesting glimpse into his lead-generation white paper strategy, and it’s worth a few minutes of your time (you can read the blog entry here).

Last year we interviewed the guru of white papers, Michael Stelzner on our Blogging and Beyond radio show. After the interview we asked him to teach a class for our network about using white papers to get more leads, which he did and was a big hit.

The bookshelves are littered with "How to make millions in your underwear" books aimed at new copywriters — most of them pretty light on original thought. What’s missing are the books that actually tell you how to do things — books that offer you enough information that you can confidently take on a paying job and expect to deliver a professional product.

When writers aren’t writing, they’re reading about how to be a better writer, or be a better marketer of their writing, or about who else they could be writing for. That’s what I found when I asked freelance, newspaper and magazine writers and editors to name some of their favorite blogs for writers.