Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to another weekly round-up post from our growing community of bloggers, writers, vloggers, podcasters, and other fellow content creators. Each and every week we hand-pick five top posts from a pool of the highest voted user-submitted/created posts in the community and include them in this weekly round-up blog post, along with the newsletter for all of our e-mail subscribers.

Here are this week’s (Aug 11 – Aug 17, 2018) most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. 3 Areas of Focus for Consistently High-Quality Content
In today’s world, publishing second-rate content is a total waste of time. There’s no point in contributing to the growing pile of mediocrity. It wastes your, and worse, your audience’s time.

2. Don’t Sit On The Fence. Take A Position And Be Loud As Hell
There is a time and place for subtlety. That time and place is not the internet in 2018. I’ve been making content online for around 20 years now, give or take. I started before I was 10.

3. Ten Drawings That Motivate Me to Make Art
Art is hard. It often looks easy from the outside. ‘I could have done that,’ says Jane. ‘But you didn’t,’ says Peter. That’s art. A true artist is not born. They are certainly not made overnight.

4. New WP Policy Allows It to Shut Down Blogs of Sandy Hook Deniers
WordPress.com has taken down a handful alt-right blogs, according to affected blog owners and readers who claim the sites were removed despite not being in violation of the Terms of Service.

5. Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less
Donald Hall, who died in June this year at the age of eighty-nine, was a prolific poet, essayist, and editor whose work has had an enormous impact on American letters.

That’s all folks! You can view all the rest of the community’s top submissions (10 more) here.

Tune in next Friday for another great weekend reading list that will make you a better and more informed blogger, writer, and/or content creator! If you have anything awesome to submit that others might enjoy, feel free to do so!

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