I first heard of ficlets when Scalzi posted about it on boingboing right before the launch, and thought that the whole idea sounded awesome. So I checked it out, and it truly was awesome. I always wanted to be a writer, and this seemed like a good way to practice.

My first few ficlets were pretty silly. The good ones really started with The End, a weird, rambling end of the world story that never really did come to a conclusion. I traded sequels back and forth on that with SJ Hundak, who is kind and a great writer person.

My real proud moment was the weird binary thing that way more people got into than I ever expected. That was pretty great.

I haven’t written as many ficlets as others, but I have to say that this site has made me feel that I really can be a writer. It’s a fantastic idea, and I hope it lives on in some incarnation or other.

Letting go of this place is hard, but I have to say that the harder part is to make absolutely sure that this thingy uses up the full allotment of 1024 characters.