Well I’ll be Damned!
The Blue Inkwell turned 1 last week and I didn’t even notice it!
One year ago, on March 1, 2010, I wrote the very first blog post entitled Shut Up and Write! What a ride the last year has been…
The Blue Inkwell has certainly evolved over the last year. So have I.
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You’d think I’d have something witty, interesting, or eventful planned for my blog’s first birthday, but I don’t. Heck, I didn’t even realize we PASSED the Blue Inkwell’s first birthday. How’s that for not paying attention? 
It’s amazing what can happen in a year’s time, isn’t it? I would have never thought, this time last year, that the blog would grow to the point that I would hire a Managing Editor…or interview editors to be featured on the blog…or that anyone would even find a blog about chicken shit novice writers interesting.
But…
Here we are…
I’ve hired on my once-intern, Crystal Case, to help run the show around here. Stand up and take a bow, Crystal…the new Managing Editor here at the Blue Inkwell!! Interested in writing for the Blue Inkwell? Interested in knowing what’s coming up on the editorial calendar over the next few months? Just ask Crystal…she’s got the skinny on everything going on around here these days. Just email her crystal@theblueinkwell.com – you can ask about guest blogging spots, make suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered, or just say Congrats on the new job!
Our subscriber base has grown from echoes in the hall to just…wow! I’m thoroughly amazed by the people who have managed to find our little chickenshit writer home. Who knew there were so many of us out there, right?
I have met some of the most fabulous writers, bloggers, and fellow word wranglers over the last year. Some of whom I am most humbly amazed to call friend. It certainly has been an eye-opening, soul-affirming, ass-kickin’ year. I’m gratefully looking forward to where this little chickenshit writer blog goes in the second year.
So folks, raise a glass (or a coffee cup,) and join me in a toast…to an amazing first year and very promising future ahead!
Happy 1st Birthday, the Blue Inkwell. May your second year be just as adventurous as your first!
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Twitter: CrystalJCase
says:
Happy Birthday to The Blue Inkwell!
Sandi, thanks so much for everything and I am excited and very proud to officially be a part of The Blue Inkwell!
Cheers!
Crystal
Well look at you, Sandi! The Blue Inkwell is a big girl now, proudly holding aloft her middle finger for all to see.
Let me paraphrase Robert Duvall’s immortal words from “Apocalypse Now”:
“Ah, the smell of chickenshit in the morning!”
And now, about this Crystal Case person. Does this mean that I have to make an appointment to speak to you from now on?
Whatever.
Anyway, Sandi, you deserve the best. Good luck from LongShortStories, Where the Short Story LIVES!
Wayne C. Long
Twitter: sandijohnson1
says:
Wayne…darling dear, Wayne…you, sir, have a direct line. No appointment necessary.
Crystal is…well, she’s da bomb! She’s my accountability department. She’s the one who nudges when I forget something…or says “Hey…when you gonna get off your ass and…”
Well, okay, so she’s much nicer than that – but you get the idea. (More like – “Hey…need me to do anything for ya?”)
I can bounce ideas off of her, hand off projects and to-do’s to her, not to mention having that person you can elbow and say “Holy shit…check THAT out! Ain’t that something?” lol.
Now that Crystal’s got a fancy-schmancy title…I guess I gotta come up with something to call me (other than Class Clown.)
Queen Chickenshit?
Chief Executive Smartass?
Hmm….
Twitter: lisa_rivero
says:
Happy Birthday and Congratulations, Blue Inkwell and Sandi! You just get better and better.
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