Happy Friday (and New Year) everyone!

Welcome to the weekly round-up post from our ever-growing community of bloggers, writers, vloggers, podcasters, and other 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 listicle blog post, along with the newsletter for all of our blog subscribers.

Here are this week’s (Dec 30, 2017- Jan 5, 2018) most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. 2018 Will Not Be Easy On You, But That’s The Best Part
“A lot of people have been asking me about my “end of the year reflection” recently. Even though 2017 did suck, it’s time for me to put things in another perspective.. Without 2017, I wouldn’t be in great position for an unforgettable 2018…”

2. What We Know About MailChimp’s Plan To End TinyLetter
“TinyLetter, a tool used by many writers and artists to email newsletters to groups of loyal followers, will soon cease to exist as an independent entity. As first reported by Inc., TinyLetter’s features will be integrated into MailChimp…”

3. How To Make More Time For Writing In 2018
“Does it ever feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day for everything that you want to accomplish? You’d love to blog more, but you just don’t have the time? Or you’d love to write a novel, but right now there are too many other things fighting for your attention?…”

4. The Huffington Post Removed Me As A Writer For The Dumbest Reason
“Ahh, Huffington. I used to love you. I used to hold you in such high esteem. I still love you to be honest, but I’m about to tell a tale I’ve never told before. I’m about to show people what it’s ACTUALLY like to be a Contributor to the Huffington Post…”

5. The Month In WordPress: December 2017
“Activity slowed down in December in the WordPress community, particularly in the last two weeks. However, the month started off with a big event and work still pushed forward in a number of key areas of the project…”

That’s all folks! You can view all the rest of the community’s top submissions (12 more) here.

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