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Why 2025 is the Year to Finally Rescue My Online Stories from Obscurity
I should have done it long ago
While looking through my drafts this morning, searching for something that interested me enough to actually write about, I noticed something I rarely pay attention to anymore: the number of articles I’ve published here since early 2021, and I was a little surprised to see that the total currently sits at 1,244. Even considering the 105 Rate-A-Record installments and the 90 Springsteen stories, more than 1,200 stories is a lot. A lot.
I have an ironclad rule that requires me to publish any story once it reaches 700 words and most are longer than that. This means that I have written somewhere between 850,000 and 1,000,000 words over the past three-and-a-half years, numbers I can barely wrap my head around. A novel is classified as a work of fiction over 50,000 words, which means taken in total, I have written the equivalent of at least 17 novel-length works.
Never one to leave well enough alone, I took this deep dive into numbers a step further. Looking at the five stories with the most reads all-time, I saw that only two had even a single view over the past 90 days and those two had only a couple of member reads during that time. As with everything else on the internet, they had effectively fallen into the Great Void…
