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Writing to be Read

writingtoberead.com · a site they built themselves

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Writing to be Read publishes art and short stories about books & reading and grief & illness at writingtoberead.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index.

120 dated posts since 20101 writer vouch

Posts per month, from their own dated linksSeptember 2010 to September 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20102010-09: 120162016-09: 120182018-08: 12018-09: 220222022-05: 220232023-03: 12023-04: 12023-08: 12023-10: 420242024-03: 12024-04: 32024-06: 120252025-01: 12025-03: 22025-04: 22025-11: 520262026-01: 12026-02: 12026-03: 82026-04: 72026-05: 12026-07: 132026-08: 572026-09: 3
fewermorepeak: 57 in August 2026

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

120101201632018220227202352024102025912026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 5

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 5, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
13 captured
Front page
419 KB, 51 scripts, 98 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 21 other sites, 9 platforms
Found
2026-09-04, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

wordcrafter1lindsey23martinbowen1reddit142wagner31wtbr1maryfrance1window716detention16undawnted1bowen15tour328kayelynnebooth1print604

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 726,707 in the top million domains.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • Some tracking is present.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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