This is my eightieth blogger post on this blog. Officially, but not technically. I kind of deleted all of the posts I made a year ago because they weren’t really relevant, and yesterday I deleted a draft I wasn’t going to post after all, and I still have two other posts sitting in draft mode, so there aren’t really 80 posts up on this blog.

But still, according to my current offical stats, this will be post number 80, so I thought I’d do something special…

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Okay, how about this. Since I don’t have anything else intersting to say today, instead go visit these awesome people. All of them have pretty much saved me and my pet project from myself over the last eight days, and are awesome writers and bloggers. They’ve talked me down, they’ve given me names and ideas, and their word counts have driven me to do my best. And since it’s not #ff on Twitter, I’ll link back to them instead. Go visit these awesome writers. I’ll even give you a reason.

Dawn Embers. Dawn is writing her NaNo novel impossibly fast. She may not remember, but she agreed to let me beta read one of her novels, and I’m still looking forward to it. Most important (importance being relative) thing about Dawn – she comments on almost every single blog post I make, and of course that means she’s just about the most awesome person in history 😉

Kate Larkindale. Kate writes novels, lots of them, faster than almost anyone I know. She’s got vast literary talent, and manages to randomly and successfully pick up various genres when the mood strikes. And she talked me down from deleting 15k worth of work yesterday afternoon.

Mireyah Wolfe. Mireyah is my angelic sister in demonic crime. She tells me my ideas are awesome and (I think) means it. She has some incredible ideas she turns into amazing stories, and she understands why I worship Loki. She rocks like Pop Rocks.

Ben Langhinrichs. Ben is possibly the most prolific and diverse writer I’ve ever had the pleasure of talking to. He also makes a fantastic NaNoWriMo pace car. He and some other writers are working on a super-sekrit novella project right now that I can’t say much about (NDA and all that), but I know it’s absolutely awesomeness frosted.

Tessa Conte. I don’t know Tessa as well as I’d like to, but I know she’s an entertaining blogger, and hosts some fantastic blog fests and blog hops. I hope to some day be able to read more than just snippets of her writing. And she helped talk me down from the ledge yesterday, too.

bretzke. I know this talented artist as of yesterday, because they helped me figure out a short name for Prometheus. Twenty-four hours later, I also know they’re an awesome artist who likes pretzels.