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 25 – Aug 31, 2018) most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. Skim Reading is the New Normal. The Effect on Society is Profound.
When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age.

2. The 4 Pillars of Good Writing
In 2016, PayScale asked employers this question. The top response was “writing proficiency.” Wow. Our education system teaches few practical skills, but it does emphasize writing. So what gives?

3. Web Comic: Perfection
Nothing we do or create will ever be perfect, even if you practice it for a million hours. We’re all human and for us perfection does not exist, so ditch that mentality and just get started!

4. The Powerful Practice of Writing by Hand
The author Laura van den Berg on what inspired her newest novel, The Third Hotel, and how she accesses the part of the mind that fiction comes from. Great read for you novelists out there!

5. YouTube Launches a Suite of Fundraising Tools
YouTube today announced a suite of new features designed to offer creators and their fans new ways to contribute to charitable causes. This includes beta versions of new fundraising tools.

That’s all folks! You can view all the rest of the community’s top submissions (15 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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