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| I'm dusting off this blog after going radio silent for the last couple of months. An eventful summer pushed me to be inactive since May. When last I blogged I was in the middle of a 100 day Blogging marathon. Life events (which I'll probably cover in future entries) forced me to bow out at day 69. While I am still struggling to organize events in my personal life, seeing all the cool WDC birthday festivities were enough to push me into participating in the site activities this month. I wanted to help WDC celebrate 25 years. As shown by the title of this entry, I am currently participating in a blogging activity called Blog Week Birthday Bastion (see "Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2025"  ). The activity has users responding to 7 different daily prompts. Today's prompt covers the ups and down of my time at WDC. The site is one of my favorites to visit so the highs greatly outnumber any lows that I can think about. I have a lot of accomplishments that I am really proud of such as participating in Writing challenges and succeeding in ones that I never thought that I would be able to complete. Some of the achievements here that I am most proud of were my Interactive story which has expanded to 2000 chapters, obtaining over 600 merit badges and award icons, successfully collecting over 1000 trinkets, making a lot of friends on the site and completing and finishing some extremely rigorous writing activities. 3 activities that I am particularly proud of are making it through were the Wonderland writing exercises (see: "Adventures in Wonderland" ), the Ultimate Trinket Adventure (see: "Adventurer's Journal" ) and most recently one of the legs in "Tour de Ports" . I have been on this site for over 18 years so of course there have been a few lows too. There are times when my workload was too heavy and I had to stop writing projects I was hoping to complete or contest activities that I was not able to finish before their deadline. There have also been times where I was too burnt out to write. In some of those periods I have been inactive for over a year. My most frustrating moments here involve not having the time to complete all the projects I visualize. I should mention that even in the moments where I am inactive, I still enjoy visiting the site to read other peoples work and it has been a source of relaxation in times of stress as well. This site has been one of the places I really enjoy visiting very much and it has definitely helped me grow as a writer. Congratulations on 25 years Writing.Com!!Word Count: 438 Words Written for: "Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2025" Prompt: 25 years of Writing.com. Let’s celebrate! Guide us through your writing life at WdC. Ups, downs, hiatus? What happened with you being part of this wonderful community? |
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