Update: Blade Off the Feather showed up as truncated. That’s been fixed, so now it actually is a story.

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Life is change.

Spontaneous Derivation was born on October 10th, 2007 with a most innocuous post.

Since the first retrospective 3 months ago, Sd has gone through four redesigns, switched from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress, been Stumbled a few times, ended up on Entrecard’s main help page, and put through all manner and form of WordPress plugins.

And through all that, Spontaneous Derivation gained an actual focus for the first time: blogging as a writing form. Although the tag line is much more amusing (and more accurate, since Bein’ Like Totally SeRIouz is something I have a hard time keeping up).

Recently, I was tagged by the good Unfocused Life for the “Six Things About Me” meme. But since I’ve already got an entire page blathering about myself, I’ve decided to instead highlight six milestone articles (or series) I’ve written in these past three-and-some months. Each represents one big step in my development as a writer and blogger.

And while I’m indulging in some reminiscing, you’ll also get a preview of content to come.
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