Year in Review

Don't try and pretend you didn't notice where that microphone is aimed.

The year is drawing to a close, although we are only finishing up the first ten months of writing this blog. For some reason out of the blue Push mentioned it might be fun to write a blog back in February or March and we really had no idea what we were going to talk about but decided to go for it anyway, and maybe if we were lucky the five or six people who tend to review our stories would come over and read.

A big part of why we wanted to do it was to sort of bring together the Han and Leia fans in one place so we could talk because it appeared that nobody was doing that anymore, and it's been great to slowly see more and more people showing up here and commenting and participating. We had also hoped to maybe encourage some more writing from some people and help you guys maybe improve the quality of your writing, and hopefully that has been true for at least some of you.

We've had a whole lot of growth from the time we started. These blogspots have traffic counters and in our first month we had just under 1000 views. This month we are probably going to close out at a little under 8000. Our top ten countries with the most readership are the US, UK, Spain Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Germany, Australia and Bulgaria. It's not so much that we are getting people from all of those far reaching places to read our blog, I just love the fact that there are so many Han and Leia fans all over the world.

It's just always nice to find out that this weird, silly little hobby you have may not be incredibly common, but you're certainly not the only one who has it. I really enjoy our little community here and the wide ranges of ages to get different perspectives.

What do I hope for 2012? Well, I hope you guys continue to read and comment on the blog. I hope that some of you people out there lurking and reading anonymously might consider jumping in on the conversation. We don't bite. We love hearing from more people and knowing that they are reading and enjoying. I hope that some of you who have written stories but been too afraid to post will build up the courage to put it out there and let us read. I hope that we can make it through another joint story without too much headache and I hope I survive re-reading the entire EU. I hope that we continue to find new awesome pictures of Han and Leia and Harrison and Carrie. And I hope we don't get too boring.

Keep reading, keep writing, keep commenting, and hope you have a happy new year!