Okay. Looking back, I only published three articles last year. Ouch. All-time low there. Well, four, technically, but I’ve only gotten to putting up the article version of the 23 Days of Materialism 09, even though it was written and posted in it’s entirety last year. So that one could go either way. The worst part is that I had planned to write twice as many, but they take so long to research and write that it’s really hard to put aside the time to actually do them.
So what I’m thinking here, is that maybe from now on I need to concentrate on writing shorter, more focused pieces. I used to be really proud of my word counts, but in complete honesty, a really embarassing portion of those huge counts are padding. I’m like a JRPG developer, adding in a bunch of extra fluff to justify that “70 hours of gameplay!” bullet point on the box.
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You know what I mean. So yeah. So my new year’s resolution (which I just came up with this morning) is to write at least 10 articles this year. Not that anyone reads them or anything. Which begs the question of why I even bother. Well, hits are decent right now, but last year’s have taken quite a dip from 2008’s numbers, which is a bit different from the comic, which peaked in 07 and is spiraling downwards as we put up more and more filler each week.
On an interesting note, the highest concentration of hits for this site come from Facebook users.
So yeah. I’m hoping that 2010 will be a good year for my websites. Of course, that’s what I hoped last January and then things just went to Hell. It doesn’t bode well that my first post of the year is thirteen days in, either. Oh well. Fingers crossed!