My Life In One Photo

Except that lady.  I have no clue who that lady is.

(Thanks Tim!)

Home Stretch

... or I'd like to think it is.

I hit 40k words just a little bit ago.  Finally.  I almost went to bed early because I've been dragging all day.  Instead, something told me that it would be a perfect night to check out the Write Or Die desktop program I bought before Christmas.         The premise of Write Or Die is that you can set goals--crazy or easy, or somewhere in between--for your writing, and if you don't hit those goals, then you are punished.  The punishments range anywhere from violins screeching in the background to words deleting themselves from the screen.  If you are idle for too long the screen fades from pink to red, which I found to be really annoying. So tonight, I managed to write about 1084 words in an hour, which is  some sort of record for me.  I'm excited about this new gadget to hopefully motivate me to get to the finish line.  I'm only 10k off now!  Yay!

And now I am falling asleep at the keyboard.  That's the price you pay for an hour of super-speed.

P.S.

1864 blog views since its conception in June 2012.  I approve of this message.

Just the Facts, Ma'am.

WARNING:  Letting my geek flag fly uninhibited for this one.  I usually try to be a little bit more covert.  Moving on....

I began this blog back in June of this year as a way to write about things that come up that are too long or personal for Facebook fodder.  Also, as I go through the process of writing my first (and now my second) book, I wanted to get my feet wet, in terms of building a following with readers and other authors.

I'm ridiculously horrible at Math, but I love analytics.  There's something addictive about checking on the statistics of my blog and my business website and seeing how many people visit, where they're coming from, what pages catch their eye, etc.  It's humbling too, because I am aware that more than half of my blog posts are mindless babbling and the other half are me mourning my horse.  Certainly there are better uses of one's time, but I appreciate that so many have spent a little of theirs here anyway.

Over the past six months my blog has received 1701 pageviews.  I'd hoped to hit 2k by the end of the year, but there was really no reason for that number in particular.  Most of my 70 blog posts receive an average of 20 views, with the highest ever being 120 views for my entry the day I lost Moe ("Broken").  For successful bloggers, 1000 views is a slow day, but I'm happy with where I am.  Maybe someday I will be interesting enough to hit triple+ digits.

Thank you for stopping by and bumping up my numbers--for humoring my inner geek on this one thing.  Even though you guys rarely comment, I know people are reading, which encourages me to keep sharing (and oversharing).

If you've stuck with me this far....  I'd love to hear from you, the twenty-or-so peeps who take the time to at least blindly click to this blog every few days--what do you like about this blog?  What would you like to see more of?

Nerd Love

Your syllables wrap around my heart.
Your profile picture fills my dreams.
I want to fill your monitor with my :-*.
When you log out, you take my breath with you.
Counting the moments until I see your screen name again.
<3


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