Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to another weekly round-up post from our growing community of bloggers, writers, vloggers, podcasters, and other fellow creatives. To be straight to the point, 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. As per our submission rules, posts shared can not be re-posts, or older than 1 month (30 days), meaning that all of the following are fresh and recent! Tune in every week and you will gradually become a better and more insightful creative over time!

Here are this week’s (May 11 – May 17, 2019) most valuable posts from the /t/BES creatives community:

1. How to Promote Yourself Even If You Hate or Fear Self-Promotion
It is done! Your book, your article, your course, your product. After all your hard work, blood, sweat, and tears, the thing is finished. Now, it’s time to sell it. Get people to buy it. Read it. Adopt it.

2. 10 Ways to Trick Your Brain Into Being More Productive
The paradox between the decline in productive work during the day and the feeling of being constantly overworked could boil down to your biology, UC Berkeley cognitive neuroscientist Sahar Yousef says.

3. Q&A: On Writing Your Way Towards the Unknown
Writer/editor Anna Moschovakis discusses what it means to work in a variety of genres, unpacking the complexities of middle age, and using creative practice as a way to untangle unfamiliar ideas.

4. Meet the Blogger Powering a Cycle Revolution
Dump the Lycra and competitive attitude. Cycling is open to all. Activist Jools Walker reveals why life is better by bike – and why she’s fighting to make it more socially inclusive. By Robyn Wilder.

5. 90 Easy Tips That Will Turn Even a Novice Blogger into an Expert
It always sucks being the new guy. It always sucks to start something new, to have no idea what needs to be done. And the truth is that, most times, the advice that is out there on the web is kind of confusing.

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

Be sure to 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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