That sounds kinda gross and super corny, but what's my absolute #1 rule!?!?! If I wrote it, I leave it. That's that.
But really, I didn't think I'd be writing these still after three years. And if I was, I didn't think this would have become such an extension of me. Oh, there is also something else to celebrate with this entry... and we allllllll know how much I love to commemorate occasions!
THE THREE YEAR
ANNIVERSARY OF
MUSINGS OF A SELF-PROCLAIMED AUTHOR
AND THE
100TH BLOG!
Who knew I had that much shit to write about? Not this guy, and I write books! ::tosses hair::
Originally the blog was supposed to just be an outlet for me when I had something on my mind but then it transformed into something quite different with "26 Golden Things" and all that project entailed. When the project was wrapped and I was left scratching my head, the blog transformed yet again with the monthly updates and then Random Things... and eventually it just became a way to share my funny, weird, often sad and always kinda dumb life. The excitement, the misery, and even as the description of the blog says, "the day-to-day trials and tribulations." I wasn't far off in my original statement, was I?
I think in the year that has passed since I last sat down to write one of these iterations, the biggest change has been that I've started doing what I originally set out to do. It took me 8 months to get my book ready for publishing this year, and I'm already hot on the heels of getting the second out in the early part of 2015. I didn't think that would happen.
I won't say writing the "iteration" blogs has caused me to start acting on my words, because that would best be left for the "new resolution" blogs that happen every January 1st. But really, when you run out of big things to do that are new to you, you might as well turn back and set your sights on the ideas and stories (because I'm an author, natch) that you thought would make you a big deal in the first place.
Am I a big deal yet? No, not really, but sometimes I like to fantasize about the day I catch my big break. If that Stephanie Meyer can write a turd like Twilight, I don't see why I can't as well.
And yes, I realize I referred to my book as a turd. But I wrote it and can't erase it, because, y'know... fuckin' rules.
A lot is going to happen in this next year. Some of it is speculation (moving away before I turn 30, as I planned on doing), and some of it is just basic fact (publishing two more books). It's both scary and thrilling for me to think about the changes that are going to come, but in the same respect it has been scary and thrilling to see the changes that have already occurred over the last three years of writing about them.
Two bests were married, one got engaged, one ended an engagement and one was already married when she came into the mix. I've switched jobs, I've experienced heartbreak both romantically and not, and the pursuit of learning how to be happy through my own means continues daily. The blog has hit 9,694 views in the last three years and half of that number is from this last year alone. Will I hit 20,000 before the next 100 are written? I don't know.
But I think we should all find out together. Here's to the fourth iteration, my wonderful friends and family and fans, and especially to anyone who just takes the time to read the words a once self-proclaimed author thought he should write down. You all mean the world to me.
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