Trans-Scribe has been going for a number of years now (2025 will make it 14 years), and I massively appreciate the amount of support it has received over the years. Over the last fourteen years I have been the sole writer here, despite at one time thinking that perhaps I could entice others to come and do so, and I've become happy with this being for my writing output. I've written over three thousand articles, and I've had more than 1.5 million people come and read them. I'm proud of this work.
However, those of you who visit often (I'm still incredibly grateful for how many of you subscribe), will have noticed that there has been a decline in the frequency of my writing this last year, and I wanted to address that as well as talk briefly about the site going into 2025.
For the most part, each year has seen something of an increase in the amount that I have written, with most weeks having an article four or five days a week. This year, however, saw a big decrease in numbers, especially towards the back half of the year. This is down to a few different things. The first is that one of the publications I've worked with for a number of years, Set The Tape, has gone on hiatus. I was producing a lot of work there, with it then republished here, and with those assignments gone my article output slowed down.
At the same time, I became sicker this year. I have chronic illness, to the point where I can't hold down a regular job. This has been part of the reason why I've had more time to write, especially when I can write ahead of time on my good days. However, those good days have grown less and less frequent, and the times in which I'm good on those days has gone down too. This has affected every aspect of my life, and in some ways my personal life has suffered because of this too. But my writing has too. I've been unable to meet a few deadlines for a number of things, and am now playing catch-up, and you may have noticed articles being published over December for books and films that were released earlier in the year. This will likely continue into 2025, with some late articles from 2024 making their way across into the new year.
However, I am going to be trying to keep up more, and at the time of writing this I already have a few new articles already scheduled in; something I hope to be able to continue. But, being sick is hard. I have next to no energy, I'm constantly tired, and I haven't had a minute free of pain in literal years. This, coupled with some personal and family issues across 2024, are why things slowed down somewhat. But the numbers on your side didn't. I've still had a ton of visitors to the site, and I really appreciate the continued support in these tougher times. So because of that I'm going to keep going for as long as I can, and whilst things might be less frequent than in the past I will still endeavour to keep writing.
On a smaller note, I will also be making some changes to the rating system going into 2025. In the past I was using a five star review score, thanks to my work at Set The Tape. I will be keeping this, but expanding it to include half stars (yes, I know this basically makes it an out of ten score system). There have been times when reviewing things where a film is better than a three star, but not quite a four star, and I've struggled with scoring it, so I'm hoping this new method will help with that. Articles will also be published earlier in the day.
As someone who's always loved writing and started this blog on a whim and for a bit of fun I want to say thank you to those who've been visiting and reading for all these years. Trans-Scribe has changed my life for the better more than once, and I've got to do some amazing things because of it, as well as making some great friends. So, thank you all again for the support, here's to seeing if I've got another 14 years in me.
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