Happy 3rd Birthday to A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye
June 11, 2009 by Lillie
Blogging is so much a part of my life that sometimes it seems like I’ve been doing it forever. On the other hand, sometimes it seems as if I’ve just started.
In fact, I started three years ago today. The numbers tell part of the story:
- 566 posts, including nearly two dozen series with 2 to 14 installments
- More than 8000 comments—I don’t know the exact number because when I moved my blog last fall all my nested comments disappeared
- Almost 140,000 spam comments since I moved the blog in September 2008
But the numbers don’t tell the whole story.
I’ve learned so much from reading other blogs, from researching for my own blog posts, and from interacting with readers in comments. Though it’s hard for me to evaluate, I hope I’ve become a better writer through blogging.
Most of all, I’ve met so many wonderful friends from around the world. I love carrying on conversations in comments. Often more valuable information comes from my readers in comments than from what I write. For example, my post about a way to donate books to literacy programs turned into a fascinating discussion of illiteracy in comments.
I would love to recognize all my blogging friends, but this post would be way too long. And I would certainly overlook someone. Thank you to each of you who read and comment on my blog and who motivate, entertain, and educate me through your blogs.
I’m looking forward to many more years of blogging and sharing cyberspace with all of you.
I’m celebrating my blogging birthday, along my birthday and my wedding anniversary, with My Special Days Dream or Destiny Promotion. Everyone who orders Dream or Destiny during the month of June will receive a free e-book of a contemporary romance, Fern’s Fancies, and a chance to win a virtual gift basket of e-books.
You can order from my publisher or Amazon.com
Three years already! Wow. Happy birthday Lillie, and thanks so much for being such a generous blogger, not just here, but all over the blogosphere
Joanna
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Joanna,
Thank you. Three years is getting pretty old in blog years.
Congratulations Lillie!
Thank you, Bluestocking.
Your comments always appear late because they always go into spam though I don’t know why. One of the mysteries of life—or at least of WordPress and Akismet.
Happy, happy blogiversary!
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Thanks, Deb.
Congrats! Three years is a lot for a blog.
Football (if you wrote YourName@Keywords, I could address you as a real person, and you would still get your keyword link),
Thank you. Yes, I’m getting old.
Well done! Three years is good going.
Thanks for the replies on the other thread by the way, I replied to your comment but I’m not sure if it went through, let me know if not.
Stephen,
Thanks for the good wishes.
I think you are saying that you commented again on the comment spam post. If so, it did not go through. This comment was in spam—it’s possible I missed one when I cleaned out spam at some time, but I didn’t intentionally delete a comment. Sometimes when there are a lot of spam to go through I get tired of seeing all the junk and tend to hurry through. It’s possible that I could overlook one legitimate comment among dozens of spam comments. I’m guessing it’s the word “free” in your keyword, but I don’t know for sure.
If you leave another comment there, I’ll try to keep an eye out for it in spam and approve it.
Hi, thanks for all your help on this. This is just a test comment more than anything. The offending word removed, did it get through?
Stephen,
This comment didn’t go into spam, but it went into moderation. Try again to see if it will go through without moderation now that I have approved this one. It looks like the word free is the problem, but you need to try one more time to see if it works right.
Trying again! So not everything goes into moderation?
EDIT: Looks like it worked as it appeared straight away.
Stephen,
Yay! It worked.
My policy is that all commenters are moderated on their first comment. Once I approve the first comment, all future comments should appear immediately, as this one did.
I can blacklist someone after the first comment but have had to do that only once. I approved a legitimate-sounding comment, and the next day, the commenter left more than a dozen comments. When replying to them, I came across one that sounded familiar. I discovered that it was simply a repeat of what a previous commenter had said. I went back and checked and discovered all were duplicates of other people’s comments. It took several comments to catch it because the person was commenting on older posts that had a lot of comments so I didn’t recognize right away that what s/he was saying had been said before.
Sometimes Akismet blocks certain commenters even though I have approved the first—or many—comments. I have a few commenters who always end up in spam, and I have to retrieve the comments. I haven’t figured out why for most of them, but now we know it’s “free” in your keywords that was sending you to spam.
Congrats on blogging for three years! That’s gotta be like, 50 internet years. Keep up the good work.
Simo,
I’m getting old, aren’t I? But I’m having fun.
One more year and your blog’s ready for preschool. lol.
Congratulations on the achievement.
Justin,
Here I was thinking how old my blog is in blog years, and you remind me it’s just a toddler.
Thanks.
Happy birthday Lillie,
I think that you really working hard for from last three year.No one can reply the each comment that you are always doing.I really says from my heart that it is my favorite blog.
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Lucky,
Thanks for the good wishes. I’m flattered that you would this is your favorite blog. If that’s the case, I hope to see you around more often.
Happy Birthday to A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye! You and your blog have been a true blessing to many people! Thanks for your committment and dedication to all of us!
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Thank you for the kind words, Lisa.
Lillie, happy b’day to A Writer’s Word, An Editor’s Eye! I bet you’ve been through many sweet and pitiful moment during the last three years.
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wilson,
Thank you for your good wishes. Yes, I’ve had lots of experiences along the way, and one of the best is making friends with nice people like you. Thank you for being such a loyal reader and commenter.
Happy birthday indeed!
I for one am certainly glad that you came online to share your experience and knowledge.
Congratulations Lillie!
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Thank you, Laura. I appreciate your good wishes and kind words.
Happy Birthday… 3 years huh? In human time thats the time for kids able to speak.. Congrats
Martin,
Y’all are in trouble now. I can talk.
I have been a regular reader of your blog and I have no doubts that you have been improving day by day. I simply love style of your writing. Congratulation for completing 3 years of blogging. I wish and pray you will have many more birth days for this blog.
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Celebrityness (if you wrote YourName@Keywords, I could address you as a real person, and you would still get your keyword link),
Thanks for the kind words and the good wishes.
Lillie,
My name is David glen and a run a Celebrity
Blog.
sorry for not putting my name
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Nice to meet you, David. It’s much nicer to talk to David than to Celebrityness.
I appreciate your responding to my request.
Congratulations on your journey as a writer. It is obvious that you have a passion for sharing. The passion makes the blogging something other than work!
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Allan,
Thanks for the congrats. Although I hope blogging has helped me improve as a writer, I suspect writing novels and editing books for other authors have more of an impact.
Yay for 3 years! Your blog is JUST younger than mine. Congrats on sticking to it!
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Thanks, Ronnica. I didn’t know how long you had been blogging as I only discovered your blog a few months ago.
8000 comments is amazing! Unfortunately, 140,000 Spam comments is also amazing, but in a bad way. Won’t spammers ever learn?
C,
I can’t imagine that spam works, but it must work well enough that the spammers are willing to keep doing it. You’d think it would be a total waste of time and money.
Wow! Blogging for 3 years. Thats incredible. Seems like I’ve been blogging for a decade yet its only been a few months! haha.
Ron,
When it’s been three years it will seem like forever—and like you just started.
Hi Lillie,
It is so nice to be back reading your posts and I hope I’m not too late to congratulate you for your 3-in-1 celebration. I wish you all the best in blogging and goodluck to you!
I really love hearing happy stories and attending celebrations because all you see in the faces of people are happy faces and only happy thoughts and wishes of goodluck.
Marcy,
I’m glad you’re joining my celebration. Thank you for the good wishes.
Congratulations!
I’ve just started my own blog, and I can understand your how difficult it was to reach your 3 year achievement.
Keep up the good work.
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Panama (if you wrote YourName@Keywords, I could address you as a real person, and you would still get your keyword link),
Thank you.
Lillie,
Wow, three years of blogging – that’s a wonderful achievement, and I hope that you continue to derive a great deal of pleasure, personal growth and fulfillment from discussions on this blog in years to come.
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Thank you, Andrew.
Congrats! You’ve got a great blog going on here.
Thank you, Kaylynn.
566 posts is really a huge number. I’m far away from this…
Timmy,
It’s just like saving for retirement—it takes time. You write 566 posts one post at a time.
Three years of sensible blogging. Quite a feat. Congrats to you! Here’s to three or more years of worthwhile blogging!
Online (if you wrote YourName@Keyword, I could address you as a real person, and you would still get your keyword link),
Thanks for the good wishes.
Wow! Blogging for 3 years. [2]
My oldest blog have 1 year and 6 months.
Fernando,
You’re halfway to three years.
When you consider that most bloggers either fail or give up in six months, three years is an outstanding run. Keep up the great work, it’s definitely something to be proud of!
Thank you, Carlos.
Lillie, I just happened upon your blog and read your sincere comments about blogging. Congratulations on your 3 year anniversary…may you have many more!
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Thank you, James.
Lillie, I enjoyed reading your comments and thought I’d stop by and say congratulations. Are you celebrating 3 years of blogging, your birthday and anniversary all at the same time? If so, you must be pretty busy!
George,
Yep, all my special days are within a three week period. This year I celebrated by offering a gift to anyone who bought my romantic mystery novel.
My mum recently started a blog about writing and she seems to spend all her time updating it and getting in touch with other bloggers. She seems to really enjoy it.
Congrats on your blogging birthday!
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Dave,
Thanks for the congrats. Leave your mother’s link, and I’ll visit her blog. I’m always interested in writing blogs.
Wow a Birthday blog party.That’s something that I had never thought of.I could invite all of my followers to my party.
LOL
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Joeyj,
A blog birthday is something to celebrate, and your followers are great folks to celebrate with.
Iknow just what you mean about feeling that the blog becomes a part of your life, my blog hasn’t been going as long but it’s amazing how you relate happenings around you to new ideas to share on the blog site.
Look forward to reading more from you.
Writers Resource
annette,
For writers, everything we see, hear, and experience becomes fodder for our writing, whether it be a blog, a novel, a story, or a nonfiction piece.
Well done, three years is not that old but three years active is quite an achievement! I have only been going a week now and I am finding it exhausting to keep making posts that are well written and of some use.
Deborah,
This post is well over a year old, so I’ve been blogging for more than four years now. Best wishes with your new blog.