I recently told my husband that I was coming up on an important writing anniversary. At the end of March, I will have successfully completed one year of weekly blogging. The blog itself has existed longer than that, but it wasn’t until last spring, (thanks in part to my involvement in an online mastermind group) that I made a serious commitment to posting on a regular and consistent basis. Every Wednesday since March 29, 2017 a blog post about a writing topic has appeared on my blog at 5 am. (Thanks to scheduling software, I don’t actually have to be awake at 5 am for this to happen!)

I am pretty proud of this.

Here are a few additional stats that I am also proud of.

1 year

52 articles

39,509 words

15 posts with shout outs to fellow word nerds

8 guest posts

192 likes

48 comments

My declaration of this anniversary achievement prompted another conversation.

“Do you remember when you first starting writing?” My husband asked. “You wrote those articles for Yahoo and earned like a penny per click.”

“It was actually less than that,” I corrected.

“Either way, look how far you have come!”

How far I have come. “Those articles for Yahoo”, which don’t even exist online anymore, were written in 2011, 2012 and 2013, five and more years ago. Since then I’ve self-published 7 books, led writing workshops in 3 states and will soon leave my full time teaching job because this “writing gig” is going pretty darn well.

To celebrate all of this, I am re-posting links to my favorite blog posts from the past year. Thank you all for traveling with me on this journey. I hope I have many more adventures to share with you.

Big Things Start Small

I am pretty proud of this.

Happy reading!

Crazy

The River Road

No Na No For Me

My Word of the Year: Evolve

The Write Space (Part 4)