It has been a little more than ten months since I posted the very first post here on A Glass of Bubbly, and I remember it very well. How afraid I was, yet still almost aggressive in that I could and would do this. That I dared to set out on my own and that I could build something with only my words.
The agreement I made with myself that I would post no less than two posts per day and that I would be thrilled if my blog got 50 hits per week. I decided that I was writing for me, and me alone (in an attempt to prevent me from being upset if no one else liked what I wrote) and that anyone who didn’t like my writing would be free to bugger off somewhere else. This was MY creative space!
I had a lot of ideas on what I should write here… The poetry, the essay scribblings, the opinion pieces, the ‘On this day’ segment and the first few months I wrote as if I was on fire. I could come up with a whole essay on the way to work in the morning, a couple of poems during lunch and a whole bunch of stuff in the evening. I was living and breathing A Glass of Bubbly, and the fact that people actually read my scribbles – whether poetic or otherwise – was a constant shock to me. But they did, and they do, and after ten months, and in spite of not being at all as prolific any longer as I was initially, I have celebrated 30,000 hits and today I published my 1000th post. In ten months!
To be honest I’m not even sure I know myself all the poems and essay scribblings I’ve posted, and I suppose a lot of it is real crap, but right now… Right now I’m just so very proud of A Glass of Bubbly, of myself and of all you who actually make the effort to come here and read.
Thank you so very much for making this dream come true!
Feel free to tell me what you think of this post. Comments are always welcome!