Happy Birthday, Crimmie (image from pixabay)
Do you remember your seventh birthday? Mine: I remember we’d not long moved from a bungalow to a house. I loved the stairs, a wonderful adventure playground (alas, my mother did not agree!)
And here’s a parallel: Today is my blog’s seventh birthday, and I have recently changed its address (from crimsonprose.wordpress.com to crispinakemp.com). And wow, this blog has become an adventure playground for me.
When I started this blog seven years ago, I couldn’t have anticipated what good friends I would meet along the way. The support you’ve given me… I’m speechless (and that’s a rarity!)
I have you, my followers, to thank for the success of this blog… and I do thank you. Particular heartfelt thanks to Brian (Sillyverse) and Judy (Janthina Images) who have been with me since the beginning. And special thanks to Dale (A Delectable Life), Sammi (Sammi Cox), Lynn (Word Shamble) and Joy (Tales of Eneana)… my cabin mates for Camp NaNoWriMo last year. And to those who joined during the past year via Crimson’s Creative Challenge who have so quickly become my friends, so many I cannot mention you all. And to all my followers, past, present and future, I do thank you. To quote John Donne, No man is an island, and as I’ve found the blogging experience builds strong bridges.
I smile when I remember my first posts, many I’d long ago written to amuse my daughters when they were young. See my first two posts here (Brickbat the Cat) and (Esmeralda and the Frog). But alongside those were my stories. And oh, what a lot I posted.
Neve, December 2012 at 56 episodes; Roots of Rookeri, January 2014 at 51 episodes; Priory Project, January 2015 at 59 episodes; Alsalda, August 2015 at 79 episodes; Chronicles of Mideer, June 2016 at 14 episodes; King’s Wife, September 2016 at 54 episodes; Can of Worms, April 2017 at 34 episodes; Grandma’s Attic, June 2018 at 21 episodes. You might notice a trend towards the shorter end of fiction. I now post micro-fiction, that’s a double wow!
And posted on a dedicated site, Feast Fables December 2012 at 180 episodes. Feast Fables has become The Spinner’s Game, soon to be published P.O.D. and on Kindle.
I have grown in these past seven years, as surely as had the seven-year-old child way back then. I feel I’m now able to claim the image my eldest daughter had of me a good long while ago. Of a multicoloured octopus.
image by Bui the Dinh on pixabay
I thank you all!
crispina kemp 
A very happy anniversary to you. I am a new follower but enjoying your blog very much. 💖
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I thank you. In seven years there has been a whole lot of posts!
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I can imagine 😍
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Congratulations Crispina! 😊🍾🎉💐🤗
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Thanks, Jen 🙂 🙂 🙂
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My pleasure Crispina 😊❤💐
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What a wonderful post! I am so glad I got roped into joining Camp Nano which brought us together. It’s amazing how friendships form across the blogosphere and I’m grateful for that as well.
I can’t say I remember my 7th birthday because for some strange reason, there are very few things I do remember from my childhood – can’t explain it. (Worry about it at times, too)
Congrats on your 7th anniversary!
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I thank you, Dale. And now I understand your double take when I said about being roped into NaNo. Seems we both were. Nice one.
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Aren’t we lucky we were?
In my case, thank you, Lynn!
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Ah. So not the same person in both cases? With me it was Joy.
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Oh wait. Maybe it was Joy! I think you’re right, after all… but I knew Lynn as well so figured why not?
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Joy had followed my blog for some time, mostly for the photos. I didn’t know Lynn until NaNo.
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Lynn and Joy both participate in Friday Fictioneers so…
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Yea. I don’t. Until I started CCC I didn’t do micro-fiction. I didn’t even do shorts… well, seldom, and they weren’t that short.
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I know you don’t 😉
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🙂
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Even a short note for me is a five page epistle.
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Tee hee!!
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Congrats Crispina and here’s to another 7! 😀 ❤
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I thank you. Yep, here’s hoping 🙂
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Ah, thank you Crispina for the nod! I know we’ve said this before, but I am so pleased we met through Camp. You’re such a pleasure to know, always creative, driven, informative, supportive. Yours is always one of the blogs I look for if I’ve been away from WP for any length of time. You, Dale, Sammi, Joy – what good company to keep!
Huge congratulations on reaching your seventh anniversary you’ve been so productive! And things will only get better next year with the release of Asaric Tales. Here’s to the next 10 🙂
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I thank you, Lynn. I’m not one for celebrating but I’ve had so much support over the past year or so, I have to thank everyone.
Another 10? Wow. Perhaps.
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WP is good for that – very supportive in my experience. Another 10 will be easy with your new releases coming up 🙂
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Yea, and all those other stories I listed? All but two are earmarked for future kindle publication. Should keep me going, yea?
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For years to come, hopefully!
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I’m hoping so. Not sure I could create another entire story from scratch. 🙂
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Maybe not one quite so long anyway 🙂
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Yea. That is mammoth.
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Happy Blog Birthday Crispina!
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Thank you, Andrea. I don’t usually do these celebratory things; as much as anything it was to thank those who have supported me over the years.
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I just love it here so selfishly I am hoping for another seven!
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Thank you, J. I shall keep going till… till I go no more. 🙂
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Indeed, a happy anniversary, and more to come! I’m up visiting friends in New Hampshire, and had been talking about The Spinner’s Game and showing the covers, so this is serendipitously synchronous. Thanks for the kind mention, as well.
I admit to being amazed at just how many chapters of fiction you have posted. And then I remember that you were sometimes running two stories at once, and it has been seven years. Still, a prodigious output!
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Yea, I hadn’t yet learned to write short. And almost all those stories are earmarked for Kindle, just two of them not. That should keep me busy for a while yet 🙂
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Happy Seventh Anniversary! I recently had my second which I totally forgot about…
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I’m not one for making a fuss, but I wanted to give credit to those who have supported me along the way. And well done on your second. I know not everyone stick with their blog; I notice those I follow one by one dropping by the wayside. I hope you stick it out. It’s an experience worth having
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I’m still enjoying it. It’s been nice to find an audience for my writing.
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That’s what I found. I had been ill for years, becoming more and more reclusive. Suddenly this blog opened the world to me.
BTW, my health has since recovered.
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Happy cake day! You’ve been extremely productive, too – huzzah!
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Yea. One day I’m going to take a day off. 🙂
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A happy seven to your blog! What perseverance!
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Gosh, that’s not a word often applied to me. I think maybe I’ve found my place. 🙂
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