Following on my story about my lawyer friend who is now also a singer, if you had read through the newspaper interview or had watch the video of it, then you would know that it took him 3 years of after-hours work and spare time to produce 5 songs for his first EP. It got me thinking: how many songs did he actually write, and discarded along the way to finally come up with 5 that he thought would sell himself best as a professional singer?
I don’t know anything about writing songs but I know something about writing. I know that as he had said, on some days the tap won’t stop flowing and on some days not even a drip comes out. And sometimes, what is eventually written down is of sub-par quality. In this scenario, it’s easy to pick the good stuff from the dregs.
On the flip side, once you have a solid body of work it is hard to pick out what you think are the best. If a publisher comes to you now, offering you a chance to turn your blog into a book but you can only pick 5 posts, how would you do it? What would your criterion be?
To make it interesting for those of you who have blogs, I want you to write a list showcasing what you think are your top 5 posts and why, and include a link back to this post. Comment here once you have your list up.
You have up till Friday next (20th April) to submit your list. When I have at least five of you participating, I will post up a compiled list linking back to your blogs and the individual top 5 posts. 1 link for 6 links back – good deal! And if there are more than 5 of you participating, I’ll just create another post up until the deadline.
For you big-time bloggers, even if you think you have enough incoming links already, more never hurts. 
Why am I doing this? So that I can get some link love in exchange for me giving you some link love. Plus highlighting our best content to potential new readers is always a good thing.
Right now, I can’t think of my top 5 posts. It’s difficult!
p.s. If you rather not perform this little exercise, then you can always comment more. My “Top 10 Commentators” list gives you link love too!
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all the linking is giving me headache.
I am already all over your blog liao..and I am first in running as commentator as well.Readers that don’t know would think that we were having an affair..tsk tsk.
anyway.YAH! I had the same idea last year..and could not really choose my top posts…hard work man.
Considering I don’t have a blog I can’t comment on this one (I can’t be stuffed starting and writing one, I am just a regular blog reader and commenter
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however, I would like to know what you think YOUR five best posts are? Or maybe other people could give you some hints and ideas about your best posts…
sourrain: You make it sound so dirty. Hahaha!
girlstar7: I haven’t thought of my criterion yet. I’m gonna cheat and maybe wait to see other people’s lists first.
Hahaha.
I think I pass on that task also. No American Time to do. I rather just comment on your entry and post nonsense on my blog.
mooi: We should get BM to showcase her’s. She like never had this top 5 post before rite?
er.. dun have top 10 commentors leh. and it’s more of a diary… better not lah. Have fun! LOL!
Lupin: haha that depends on whether she wants to do it, cannot force her.
An: ah well, guess we all blog for different purposes.
Bukan just pick based on the highest comment kah? if highest comment shud be the top 5 posts?
he he
DeV|LisH: Nah, that would not be my criterion. The ones with the most comments are not necessarily representative of what I’m about.
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