[Wrap-Up 2013] The year's top blog posts

These posts aren't really the top in terms of hits or anything. They're just the ones that I liked the best.

Writing-Related

• Eight writing manuals that are not a waste of time

• How I would try to get a story published in the New Yorker

• Why you should never get an MFA

• How I got my agent

• The reason that MFA programs do not encourage their students to publish

• The …