I’ve decided that with NaNoWriMo fast approaching, now is a perfect time to get back into Ficlets. So, I logged back into the site and took a look at the dusty place that I hadn’t visited in several months. I checked through my contacts and realized that some of my favorite authors also have neglected Ficlets for roughly the same period of time. I started to wonder if Ficlets was beginning to become some sort of ghost town. A quick check on Alexa shows that while traffic is fairly low, it’s also fairly steady. I guess I just managed to find some authors that were just as dedicated as I was — which is to say, not very.

Then I checked just one last author: Wil Wheaton. Wil had signed up fairly early in the site’s life, and, for whatever reason, he never ended up creating anything. Probably too busy, it’s completely understandable. But as of today, he has two ficlets up! Both created within the past couple of days. I find it humorous that I decided to rekindle my love with Ficlets at about the same time Wil decided to do the same.

I love one of his comments to his story, The Fifteenth:

I’m an experienced non-fiction writer, and this represents one of my first steps into writing fiction.

I’d have to say, so far, so good!