I officially started using DW as my main journalling / blogging home 4 years ago. That's not when I created the account; I was helping with documentation and testing and a teeny-tiny bit of development when the site was still in closed beta, so I had one of the first small handful of accounts back in January 2009. But I didn't want to "move in" here until it was opened for people who weren't connected with developers to use as well.
Dreamwidth celebrates its birthday on 1st May, so this seems like a reasonable point to count from. Four years on, I'm still pretty happy here. ( babble )
Anyway, while I'm marking time passing, I have been blogging for most of 10 years; DW opened just a couple of weeks before the 6th anniversary of starting my LJ. I've made just over 1500 posts in that time, and I reckon that probably puts me close to 2 million words since most of my posts are long-winded. Certainly a couple of million if you include comments. And those words have described getting a PhD, several different romantic relationships including the one with the person I eventually married, three jobs, living in Scotland, Sweden and moving back to England again, a bunch of travelling, reviews of several hundred books, and some pretty major shifts in my thinking about topics such as politics, feminism and others. I've met any number of new friends and got glimpses into the lives of, oh, a good several hundred people, many from very different backgrounds to me and whom I might never have imagined if I hadn't been on LJ/DW. I don't know if I've achieved the kind of competence that is supposed to come with writing a million words of crap, but I do think I'm a better writer than I was in 2003. All in all it's been a blast, and I'm certainly looking forward to the next ten years.
Dreamwidth celebrates its birthday on 1st May, so this seems like a reasonable point to count from. Four years on, I'm still pretty happy here. ( babble )
Anyway, while I'm marking time passing, I have been blogging for most of 10 years; DW opened just a couple of weeks before the 6th anniversary of starting my LJ. I've made just over 1500 posts in that time, and I reckon that probably puts me close to 2 million words since most of my posts are long-winded. Certainly a couple of million if you include comments. And those words have described getting a PhD, several different romantic relationships including the one with the person I eventually married, three jobs, living in Scotland, Sweden and moving back to England again, a bunch of travelling, reviews of several hundred books, and some pretty major shifts in my thinking about topics such as politics, feminism and others. I've met any number of new friends and got glimpses into the lives of, oh, a good several hundred people, many from very different backgrounds to me and whom I might never have imagined if I hadn't been on LJ/DW. I don't know if I've achieved the kind of competence that is supposed to come with writing a million words of crap, but I do think I'm a better writer than I was in 2003. All in all it's been a blast, and I'm certainly looking forward to the next ten years.
