Musings of the Chatty DM started a little over 1 year ago, with a bad colour scheme and a 34 year old nerd with limited editorial and web design skills.
The first 200 posts were about finding my voice, the next 200 were those that established me as a credible blogger and building an incredible community of readers and bloggers.
The last 100 seemed to be about me losing that voice.
I won’t go into that again, I’ve touched on my issues enough. Suffice it to say that I also realized that I fell to the Gen Con Newbie Nerd trap!
This convention packs so much energy and cool things together that any creative type leaves it on a different plane of reality, convinced that no project is impossible! When the high wears off, one finds himself surrounded with numerous half-finished projects and a fraction of the energy and the enthusiam to see them through!
I tackled way too many things these last few months, combined with my Real Life issues, causing a mini crash in the last few weeks. No broken bones, just some bruised motivation and hard to catch muses.
But still, I made it to 500 posts! Not too shabby I should say. Well worth the work and the effort. I’ve made many friends and discovered countless cool things about my hobby and about myself!
Blogging is about cycles. It follows your energy levels and bares your soul for all to see. One thing that keeps coming back though is that if you want to blog about tabletop RPGs and remain enthusiastic about it, you need to play more!
That’s what I intent to do. And I have a game tonight!
Thanks for hanging around! Here’s to the next 100 posts!
A few stats:
- 500 Posts
- 6941 Comments
- 735 RSS subscribers
- 400 visitors a day on average
My ad revenues are now in the range of 150-200$ monthly, if I keep this up, I’ll be able to pay for Gen Con next year. Thanks for those who click them once in a while… always appreciated.
Only 500 young padawan? Yer still a newbie kickin’ yer football against the wall 😀
Mind you, you’re doing allright. Keep up the good work, Phil. I expect you to be around for a long while yet.
Here’s to celebrating your 5,000th post sometime in 2018!
Congrats, and here’s to next 500!
I hear you on Gen Con Indy. People who haven’t been don’t quite get how overwhelming, exciting and just simply huge it is in size and scope, and what that can do to an initiate. Its really easy to come out of there with way, way too much on your plate.
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Congratulations, Chatty! Whether you think you’ve lost your voice or not, your last 100 posts have been thoroughly enjoyable.
Keep on kicking ass!
Hey, coming from you 3 veterans, it means a lot!
Thanks guys. I’m looking forward to the next 100 already!
Chatty, I really appreciate your work. I find it very inspiring in both rpg-advice and blog success. Keep up with the good work.
Congrats on the 500! Came to the site from the RSS feed to click on as many ads as I could find 🙂 Keep pluggin away we’re all listening 🙂
@Tharlorn & Chris: Thanks guys! You rock!
Around 14 comments per post. Quite impressive. Keep on the good work.
Congrats! You’ve managed to post half as much in a little over a year than several of us did in 3 years (confusing I know, it’s a compliment)!
I actually won’t let you stop blogging, so I know there will be many more. 🙂
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@Tommi: Thanks! I shall!
@Bart: Thanks man… I actually get what it is you wanted to say. 🙂 I also know that I can cant on you (and mostly your mom) to keep me straight!
Congrats.
@ShyTrblMaker: Thanks! Have a great weekend!
Phil!
You’re awesome! 500 posts already? If you keep writing and caring with the same passion you’ll be able to get over all the humps.
Thanks for pumping out all that great content!
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Congratulations Chatty, that is one hell of a milestone.
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Congrats! It has been fun watching this blog grow over the past year. If it were not for this blog, you and I would not have had a chance to work on our GM-Fu.
Congrats again, can’t wait to see the 1000th post.
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Thanks one and all. As I sit here, pondering about having wrapped up our D&D campaign I do realize how far I have gone and how much more can be achieved.
1000 posts eh?
Congratulations on 500 posts! Race you to 1000? 🙂
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Huzzah for Phil! 🙂
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Congratulations! It’s so good to see that you’re making some revenue, it’s always awesome to make a little on the side doing something you enjoy, especially when it might send you to Gen Con again. Best wishes for continued success!
Keep up the great work!
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Keep up the good work Phil!
to infinity and beyond!
Our little Chatty… He’s a year older and his voice is changing.
My, they grow up so quickly. Only yesterday he was playing Suburban Overlord. Now look at him.
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And you owe it all to bacon!
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Oh man, people, you rock! Bacon FTW!
CONGRATS!!!!
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Congratulations Chatty! May you have 500 more, and may they get better and better!
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hey congrats!!
I’m hard at work writing next week’s posts so that I get some slack to plan for next Friday’s big gaming event… stay tuned the post announcing it should come up later this week.
i’m new, looks like a good time to come to a fun place
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I wish to extend a warm and heartfelt welcome to Tharlon, Chris (both!), Jack Smith, B.G and Ming!
I hope you enjoy hanging out here!
Aww….I missed the celebration. Congratulations!
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