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13 Years… Every Night… Without Missing

July 31, 2025 / 9 Comments

Not a Clue How I Did This…

But somehow, since August 1st, 2012, I did some sort of blog here on this web site every night, without missing a night, for 13 straight years.

4,745 Days.

During those years we started and built WMG Publishing with lots of ups and downs along the way. We moved suddenly to Las Vegas. I was in the hospital twice overnight, once for major surgery.

I went through more power failures than I care to remember, and the internet went out even more. I never once posted a blog from my phone and did have help from Kris on a bunch of occasions typing in what I wanted to say. Thanks, Kris, for all the reminders over the years.

When traveling, which I used to do, I had an iPad that I posted from.

Content of all those blogs? Sometimes non-fiction books were written one post at a time, a lot of promotion for the 53 Kickstarters I have done during that time. For a time when I was doing Smith’s Monthly, I often posted the covers I was doing. Might do that again as I ramp back up Smith’s Monthly.

Over the years the posts tend to average around 500 words a night, some more, some less. That’s over 2 million, three hundred thousand words. Yikes…

The reason I started this was because I wanted to focus back on my writing after spending a year cleaning up my friend’s estate. And I had no real novels since all my novels were WFH in traditional publishing.

So I started this blog, started writing a novel a month, and in October of that year I put out the first issue of Smith’s Monthly. When I ramp up, I really ramp up.

All those novels during that period of years and years were just published without promotion. And I wrote a lot of short stories as well. A lot!

So at times, many more nights than I care to remember, putting something here has been a giant pain. And some nights when I am working on something here, it has been great fun.

But so far the power of this streak remains and I will continue on. It is bound to end at some point.

So with luck, in 255 days, if I remember, I will celebrate the 5,000 days in a row blogging. That’s a long ways a way and a lot can happen. But compared to 4,745 days in a row, it doesn’t seem that long.

Thanks to those on my Patreon account for supporting this blog. And thanks to Kris for the reminders, the help, and for making sure when I was tired or sick, I got this done. Thank you!!

Thanks to all of you for following along.

One day at a time. Here we go.

 

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