Happy Fifth!

Well, time flies.  It's been five years since I created this blog.  Wow.

I started the blog to see if I could maintain one.  I had no idea of what I was going to fill it with, either, though NaNoWriMo was coming up.  The challenge was to make regular updates.  Guess what?

I've been making regular updates.  I've created content.  I've posted fiction, starting way back with Subject 13 #1 and continued through until even now.  And if the fiction was work I'd already written, then I started commentary tracks, just to make sure I got something new done.  There's also the gaming material.  Which, yeah, crosses with the fiction because the two are related.  I got to play around with ideas and even if no one else is reading them, I know that I've done something.

Some fun stats.  This is the nth post since starting.  The most popular post, by count, is the first chapter of Digital Magic, of all things.  That supplanted the "Cars as Girls" post, so I suspect bots were looking for key words and phrases.  The fiction is gaining attention, though.

So, joyous fifth anniversary, all!

Happy Anniversary!

It's been one year since the first post ever here.  I started the blog to see if I could do it.  After one hundred posts, I decided that I could.  The focus has drifted over the past twelve months.  At the beginning, I was working on figuring out what to write for NaNoWriMo 2012 while commenting on D&D Encounters.  Slowly, the blog became a place where I posted past works and wrote about writing.  I still have the occasional RPG post.

I'm still trying to find my own voice while writing, but the blog and Lost in Translation is helping.  I'm also establishing a division between personal works and more professional, which resulted in an analysis of DC Comics' missteps to go over to MuseHack instead of here.  Meanwhile, I'm having fun with annotating the bits of fiction I've put up here, and writing out the background for NaNoWriMo is far more useful than I'd ever thought it would be.

The future of the blog is the same as it was in July; keep posting serialized fiction on Friday, comment on the fiction the following Thursday, post gaming material as it comes up, and blog about NaNo.  If something comes up that doesn't quite fit on MuseHack but does here, I'll write about it.  I'll also try to get more pictures involved.  I haven't posted many, and all of them have been my own work.  I'm hoping to be able to get a picture of my characters for NaNo projects and for any RPG material I do.

Thanks for reading!