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The long Journey, 500th post!

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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.

Comments

  1. 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!

  2. 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.

    Zachary Houghtons last blog post..Favorite Obscure RPG?

  6. 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 🙂

  9. 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. 🙂

    Bartoneuss last blog post..4th Edition Encounter Planner

  10. @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!

  15. 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.

    DNAphils last blog post..My GM Definition

  16. 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?

  19. 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!

    Jack Smith IVs last blog post..The Kroola! (Preview)

  27. 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.

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