This will come as no surprise to anyone – I have been shamefully neglecting this blog for the past two months, really. But I realised today that I should make it official.
Most of all, I want to thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart for helping to make this blog meaningful to me while I was actively posting. I started blogging a year ago in the hopes of encouraging myself to write and be more creative – the upshot is I have a rough first draft of a novel, and feel for the first time in my life as though I might be starting to figure out what it is I want to do, creatively.
Particularly, thank you to my regular readers and commenters – there were times when I was genuinely upset or feeling dispondant, and your words of encouragement helped to pick me up again, and often inspired me beyond what you might have expected. Even those who read my posts but didn’t comment – you still meant a lot to me, because every new click on a page made me feel like I was finally reaching out to people with my writing.
Unfortunately, it seems that I avoid wordpress entirely when I’m not posting here. This is not, I assure you, because my reading of your posts and following of your blogs was in any way selfish – I was very much inspired and touched by so much of what I encountered here on wordpress. But the two things just seem to go hand in hand in my head, so I won’t be around wordpress much either, I don’t think.
I will probably come back to this blog, and it might be pretty soon, but then again it might not, so I wanted to say thank you now and give you the heads up. I hope you will stay subscribed to me anyway, so that you’ll know about it if and when I do come back!
I can’t fully explain why I haven’t felt the need to post here anymore, but I think it’s because Sirens & Muses has achieved what I set out for it to do – it has helped me become a proper writer. And in that, it has been invaluable. Right now I am on the cusp of a lot of change in my life, but once I settle into a schedule I may feel the urge to post here again.
In the meantime, I wish you all the best. And again, thank you for making this experience meaningful for me.
-Áine
Big congrats on having a draft of your novel.
Very best wishes with your writing :-)
Thanks very much! :)
Congrats on the novel! the best of luck on everything! :)
Thanks Andy! :)
:D :D
Oh! A novel. Congrats!
Well, just an almost complete draft of the NaNoWriMo one! Thanks :)
All the best!
Thank you!
Write on! :)
Blessings ~ Wendy
Thanks Wendy :)
All the best for you, Aine.
Thank you :)
Great to hear you got a draft out of this. If that was your intention this was a huge success. Always enjoyed reading what you wrote and look forward to some time when you are back again. Take care.
Thanks! I’ve very much enjoying reading your posts too! I’m looking forward now to coming back, so hopefully see you around again soon :)
Great! Welcome back. :)
keep on clicking! you and your works will be missed!
Thank you very much! :)
That makes absolute sense. For many people, blogging can be a stage or step, or something they do if or when the time is right. Good luck with all your forms of writing. I hope the next stage of the novel goes equally well. – A.
Thank you! I feel like I will come back to it sometime, but with a slightly different need or purpose – you’re right, it definitely felt like somewhat of a stage. :)
I was wondering why I find no posts from you in my reader! Now I know :).
I’m very glad to hear you’re writing is going well & you found the inspiration, energy & rhythm!
Crossing my fingers for you & looking forward to seeing you around soon!
Julita
Thanks very much! And I’m glad in a weird kind of way to hear I was missed, haha. :)