2020 will be the fifth year that I’ve been writing for this site.

My plan of action was to just have a platform in which I was writing consistently because getting out of the habit of writing was always a downfall of mine. So while there are many instances where I wasn’t doing creative writing, I was writing here. And now I’m doing more creative writing while still posting.

I somehow managed to leverage technology to make this work in my busy schedule with a full time job and family.

The traction from having written almost 1000 posts is showing.

I don’t pay attention to traffic all that often because I don’t want to let it influence what I do on my daily basis. I check in from time to time to see what people are enjoying and it appears I’m getting more than enough traffic to completely just do book reviews.

I also get quite a few hits on many of my articles that I wrote years ago. I forget what I wrote and have to recheck, but it’s neat to see what I was thinking at the time.

It’s quite outstanding to see the long tail of my work and to know some of you have been with me for since the beginning. In fact, some of you have been with me before the beginning when I tried different iterations of this site. I truly am proud and thankful that you’ve kept in touch with me, reached out to me and kept me going.

For the first few years, it really didn’t seem like much is happening.

Nor did I expect much to happen. I asked myself that if I wrote every day, and nobody read it, what I still be happy doing it?

And the answer to that was yes.

The process of sitting down and writing every day, putting it out in public and defending my craft was more important than any traffic that I could be generating, and any marketing shtick I could be using.

And now it appears something is happening. The seeds that I’ve been planting for quite some time now are sprouting.

There’s been some contacts. Some pitches.

And certainly some traction.

Nothing may come of it right away, but it’s coming.

The seeds are planted, and now the seeds are growing.

I often tell my students human beings are horrible long term planners. We’re the worst.

We always overestimate what we can do in a short amount of time.

It’s about taking small steps, then giant leaps and trusting the process to guide you along the way.

Even when it seems like nothing is happening, trust the process. Something is always happening.