Thanks (Anniversary Blog)

I only noticed this yesterday, but it's been 365 days since I opened this Pastebin! I've been doing this for a whole damn year, and I'm proud that I've been able to put this much fiction into the world. As someone who loves writing I'm on a quest to surpass a million words, and thanks to this I've reached around 710,000. For the first time in my life, as a serious writer or a hobbyist, I'm actually making novel-length projects! And, like most writers, I absolutely couldn't have done it without my audience.

So thank you, all of the people who wanted to see more of my greens, and the ones who always get hype for the continuing adventures of Care and Coco. Thanks to the random lurkers, thanks to the scrapers and bots, and thanks especially to the people who I got to entertain last Thanksgiving with "Live Your Dreams". This isn't an arrangement I brag about to the normie writers I know, but it's kept me focused and motivated where so many other projects and attempts have fallen by the wayside.

In the last year I think I've progressed more as a writer than I did in the three before, and I'm not stopping. Finally landing a full-time job with night-shifts has slowed me down by making my schedule more complicated, but I think it's just a matter of adjusting when I'm writing. I'm grateful to everyone who's been patient with my update schedule, and when Care and Coco both reach the ends of their journeys I have a big list of other greens I'd like to write someday. (I've got the beginnings of a whole Dazzlings novel I might try to Fifty Shades and get seriously published.)

So, there you go. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy all of the stuff still in the pipeline.

-Dith