Has it really been four years since I began this blog? Oh my where does the time ago?

As I sit here, clammy from the warm summer eve, I consider the past four years. What have I accomplished on this blog? What have I accomplished in general? Of a personal nature, I’m still not a published author. However, it has been quite the journey.

Today marks four years and I posted a chain post. Getting back up onto that writing bicycle is hard apparently, and nothing says it more than that.

A year ago I posted my three year anniversary post not long after completing my first unpublished novel, Jefferson & The Magician’s Curse. It still sits uncomfortably waiting for my own revision, but I had moved on while my partner read and added her edits.

Two years ago I didn’t even write in the month of February. Embarrassing. I wrote a post at the beginning of November (Which was about NaNoWriMo… Past me was pessimistic from the start!) and then followed by a post in… umm… April? It was entitled Fear of Failing: It’s A Thing, which was a reflection on not writing and failing NaNoWriMo. But you and I both know that a year later I finished that story. Now, what to do with that?!

Three years ago… The same sort of thing happened. I stopped writing in December (the thirtieth to be exact), only to re-emerge in April once again. I suppose at least my post-Christmas recovery has been shorter this year (Huzzah!). The post for December was about my discovery of making my own personal story Wiki and a rant about social media was my ultimate comeback in April? Ugh. Like the adorable caterpillar, I crafted my cocoon and emerged four months later… an idiot. It must have been important at the time.

Four years ago, (in a land not unlike your own)… a young(er) man (not unlike me) had just moved from one side of the world to the other. With a dusty, unused blog at his disposal, he took up keyboard and mind to start writing anew. I had started this blog in February while I was still living in the frozen tundras of Canada (or Canadia depending on who you ask in Australia). At that point my separation from my ex had turned into a very official divorce and I had begun planning my move across the world like some insane dreamer. I had no time for writing.

In fact, I cleared out all of the posts and drafts before August and the first post welcoming people to my very lonely corner of the internet was the start of a new chapter in my life. Volume eight was my leap back into writing in August. It felt great until I landed my job in three weeks and then I’d been writing sporadically ever since.

Although this is only the four year anniversary of my WordPress. Who knows what else came before this?

If you’d all like to see some hilarious posts from yours truly, I conjured up an ancient demon who spoke only in riddles so that I could find this link. (Okay, I Googled it… but how lame does that sound?) My Original BLOGGER blog. That’s right. That will take you back in time to meet Past Me. Fantastic. If you don’t like him, try to remember Present Me, or hope that Future Me will be a bit better.

So that takes us back nearly… geez… that’s seven years ago. The internet is a funny place hey? The question is… Can I go further?! OH, I CAN.

Deviant Art (Wow, people still use that site?) was nearly a lifetime ago. Well maybe not a lifetime, but I first posted on there in… 2006. I was making my own sprite based game and starting up 3D animation which required my scribbles for a portfolio. In retrospect, for the cost of that course I could have bought a much better car than I had leading up to that point and for the next subsequent couple of years.

Even further before that I was writing on a website called Stories.Com (which has now apparently been sold as Poetry.Com and Stories.Com merged into the now Writing.Com) however there are only cached instances of my username around back from when I was Newbie of the week.

Further still? Out there is a place holder page for Author’s Realm, a website that aspired to be what Writing.Com is now, but back when my best friend and I were still in Junior High School. None of the links work on that page and it appears that whatever they’ve done to the webhost has broken all links and images.

Well, there you go… how’s that for an Anniversary Post? Maybe next year’s reflection will include the struggle to get published and many positive notes! As for now… it’s sleep time (and laptop charging time), hope you enjoyed!