Happy Blogoversary!

Yay!

Today my happy little blog turns 4! I’ve come a long way from my hopeful beginnings, through a few rough patches and then rushed out of the last birthday with a renewed joy of writing, and a ton more focus on painting and hobby! Here are some fun statistics for you:

• May 2010 to May 2011, I wrote 40 posts. 33 of these were in the first 3 months of the blog – May, June and July. I had a big back log of scheduled posts and after July I wrote 7 more posts in the year.
• May 2011 to May 2012, I wrote 14 posts. Total.
• May 2012 to May 2013, I wrote 55 posts, 27 of which were in the first 10 months. In the last 2 months, I wrote another 28. This was after AdeptiCon of last year. I think we can say that AdeptiCon 2013 was the inspiration I needed to start painting and blogging for realz.
• May 2013 to present, I wrote 129 posts. Almost three times the year before, and more than the last 3 years combined. This April was my most prolific period, with 29 posts in that month alone. AdeptiCon, it really works.

I only started using Google Analytics last year, so I don’t have any visitor statistics before that, but I had 238 visitors last month. Roughly 51 were returning visitors, with 187 coming here once. You come from a variety of places such as Facebook, Google searches (with some odd search terms), Disqus, and Wyrd-games.net. I think some of you have me in your RSS readers and are marked as “Direct traffic”, but I don’t have any proof of that, from what I can see. Most of you still don’t comment, so maybe 234 of you are robots…

It’s probably pretty obvious that I do this because I love writing, and not because I need glowing feedback from 238 adoring fans. At the same time, if there was only 1 person reading, who knows if I would continue. So thanks for reading, and have a happy Tuesday!