Two months ago, everything changed.

After several months of learning, thinking, planning, and reworking my goals, I decided that I was going to make a shift. A very big shift.

I started this blog four and a half years ago, intending to post my stories and just see what happened. Time passed, and soon enough, I found myself writing about writing. I didn’t plan it. I didn’t even know I could do it. It just. . . happened. I realised that after all my experience writing, editing, book coaching, reviewing, reading, etc., I had a lot of knowledge about storytelling stored up in my brain. Suddenly, it all started flooding out. Though I continued writing stories, I found that people really enjoyed my posts on writing and found them useful, so I started doing more content writing than fiction writing for the blog.

This was great—but my stories no longer fit.

Fast forward to August of this year when I attended an online writing conference. One of the speakers was talking about email newsletters, but something I found really relevant for my site was when she spoke of content. “Readers aren’t writers,” she said as she cautioned authors against writing about writing in their newsletters. Readers come for the stories, not for writing tips.

I had already been thinking along these lines when it came to my website. I was posting for two different audiences, and thus, I think, losing the majority of both in the process. The panel at the conference was the confirmation I’d been waiting for.

It was time to split.

The Story Canvas was born soon after. This site was easier to change—though it was still a lot of work and I’m not even finished with it yet—because I simply changed the site that was already here. The process for the other site, the hub for my fiction stories, has taken quite a bit longer. For one, I had to start a whole new site from scratch. Then, after developing the whole thing, I realised that my theme didn’t have the option of only showing post excerpts on the blog page rather than whole posts.

Seriously, why would there be a theme without that option?!

So then, there I was, basically starting from scratch again. But in the end, it was all worth it, because I can now say this:

Frabjous Day Press is up and running!

This is where I will be posting all of my fiction stories from now on, so if you enjoy fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, adventure, or any kind of engaging fiction, give the new site a follow! I’m currently updating and posting old stories from this blog, but you’ll see some new stories appearing soon, too. If you love fiction, it’s the place to be! I’ll be updating new stories a few times a week. I so appreciate your support of my stories; as an indie author, my audience is all I’ve got! If you enjoy my writing, please like, share, follow and comment to your heart’s content.

If you’re just here for the writing tips, I don’t blame you! Nothing will be changing on The Story Canvas (other than some continuing work on the site’s appearance), so keep showing up and being you.

I hope to see you soon on Frabjous Day Press!

Happy writing!
—E.J.

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