{"id":8230,"date":"2013-03-24T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T04:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=8230"},"modified":"2013-03-24T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T04:40:19","slug":"1000-posts-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/1000-posts-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 posts and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not quite the same, but we’ll run with it anyway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to my WordPress dashboard, this is the 1,000th post on this blog.\u00a0 I was going to hold off and do something big and momentous for the occasion, but then I figured it would be better to do a quick footnote and get on with the regular program.<\/p>\n

Nine hundred ninety nine blog posts ago, I was a college student at BYU who had just decided to write my first novel instead of a massive Final Fantasy VI fanfic.\u00a0 The year was 2007, I had a bunch of unfinished novels and stories left over from high school, but I’d never actually finished anything.\u00a0 I started this blog so that my writing friends could keep me honest.<\/p>\n

If I could have seen myself now, I probably would have thought that I’m crazy (I think I got those verb tenses right…).\u00a0 Back in 2007, writing was still a hobby.\u00a0 I had dreams of turning it into something a little bit more, but I never intended to try and make it my full time career–though if you’d asked me what I wanted to do for a career, I couldn’t have given you an answer.<\/p>\n

A thousand blog posts from now, where will I be?\u00a0 Married, probably, with a couple of kids (or at least one on the way).\u00a0 Hopefully by then, I’ll have turned this writing dream into a full time career–heck, I’m not all that far from making it happen right now.<\/p>\n

The 2013 me hopes that I’ll be living somewhere exotic, having an extended overseas adventure with my lovely wife.\u00a0 But the truth is that I’ll probably be settled down somewhere, trying to pay off a house and raise a family the responsible way.\u00a0 If that’s the case, I’ll probably look back on my 2013 self and think he’s crazy.<\/p>\n

But hey, who knows what the future will bring?<\/p>\n

One thing that’s almost certainly true is that I’ll still be blogging.\u00a0 I don’t just blog to promote my books, or to build my “platform” (oh how I hate that word), or anything slimy like that.\u00a0 I’ve been blogging since before I decided to turn this writing thing into a career, and I keep on doing it because I love doing it.\u00a0 Because really, how in the heck can you get to a thousand of anything without<\/em> loving it?<\/p>\n

On that note, I should add that I’ve signed up for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge<\/a> for the month of April.\u00a0 Every day (except Sundays), I’ll do a post that starts with a different letter of the alphabet, starting at A and going down to Z.\u00a0 My theme is going to be things I love about science fiction and fantasy, and it’s going to include a number of common tropes.\u00a0 It’s going to be fun!<\/p>\n

So yeah, here’s to the first thousand posts on this blog.\u00a0 It certainly won’t be the last! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to my WordPress dashboard, this is the 1,000th post on this blog.\u00a0 I was going to hold off and do something big and momentous for the occasion, but then I figured it would be better to do a quick footnote and get on with the regular program. Nine hundred ninety nine blog posts ago,… Continue reading 1000 posts and counting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Ladies and gentlemen, I am now officially a millenial blogger.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,390,806,89],"class_list":["post-8230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-about-this-blog","tag-blogging","tag-blogging-a-to-z-challenge-2013","tag-career-decisions","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-28K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8234,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions\/8234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}