I realized this morning that I missed the 3rd birthday of Feit Can Write. Way back on August 17, 2011, I launched Feit Can Write with this post*.
*Technically, my blog was originally called “Feit for your Write” (hence the Beastie Boys reference in that initial post), and was launched on another blogging platform. I upgraded the name and moved it over to WordPress about a week later.
Looking back at my very humble beginnings, I’m impressed by what I’ve built here. In the last three years, I’ve posted 375 things, hopefully cementing my status as the web’s go to source for posts on Nebraska football, adoption, and silly lists. A guilty pleasure is to go back and re-read some of my old pieces. While there are some things I’d change (a phrasing choice here and there as well as the typos and dropped words that my editor doesn’t always catch), I’m almost always pleased with what I’ve written. I like that.
In the early days, the readership was limited to immediate family members and a handful of Facebook friends who didn’t have anything better to do. Now, WordPress shows me with almost 700 followers. As I’ve mentioned previously, I think a good chunk of these are spam accounts, but I’m thrilled and honored to have a couple of hundred people who legitimately follow what I write.
And the readership…I distinctly remember repeatedly hitting refresh on my stats page on December 31, 2011, hoping that I would get my 2,000th all time view before the year ended (I did). I was super pumped to hit 2,000 views in four months. Earlier this month, I had over 2,000 views in a single day (a perfect storm of Nebraska Football, new uniforms, and a click-bait title). Also this month, Feit Can Write surpassed 50,000 views all time. I’m humbled and honored that people are coming here (even by mistake or bad Google search) and I hope people like what they read.
What’s next? Well, football season is about to start so I expect to be busier with that. The Feit Can Write world headquarters is moving in a few weeks, which means free time is going to be cut down. I’m behind pace on the number of posts I want for this year, so hopefully I can pick up the volume while balancing work, home, and family. I do take requests, so if there anything you’d like to see me write on, let me know.
As always, I appreciate the contributions for every one of you – your readership, compliments, shares, likes, comments, and continued support for this little endeavor.
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