Blog in Review: Top 10 Posts of 2016
Longtime readers may already have realized this, but the blog was different this year than it has been in the past. I made a conscious effort to write less D&D and less fantasy in general and to spend less time promoting my fiction, and I spent more time talking about the news and Army Football. As a result, average readership per post went up by 25% to 50%. Total readership, however, has been substantially lower. To put that another way, I had quite a few more regular readers in 2016, but the blog is now much less appealing to strangers. Readership on this blog has always been governed by the 80/20 Rule, i.e. 80% of our readers come for just 20% of our posts, but since the most widely read posts have uniformly been Dungeons & Dragons posts, doing less D&D has hit my bottom line. That’s okay. It's a picture from 2 years ago, but still one of our favorites. The changes in the blog reflect changes in our lives. I wrote several short D&D adventure mo