User blog:Jkl9817/My very first milestone: Jkl's 500th Edit blog post

Yeah, big deal, another newbie reached 500 edits. I happen to be this newbie, so I'm writing this anyway — why, it costs nothing to try. There are three reasons why I'm writing this.


 * 1) 500 edits are an important milestone for a new user.
 * 2) A few days ago, I completed two months on this wiki, and a lot of things have happened since I joined it on April 8.
 * 3) Edit blogs are very popular, and — don't blame me — we all want to be known.

My first contact with TDIFF Wiki
In Total Drama Wiki, my user page was filled with information about a never-written fanfic. I planned the details of every episode of the first season and wrote them all on my user page and later on an extension of it. It was very exciting for me to create a new version of the canon story, although I didn't change anything on a few chapters. Then I found out there was a specific wiki for fanfics. I wasn't sure about joining it at first, since it didn't allow as many details as I could write on my own userpage. I officially joined Total Drama Island Fanfiction Wiki on January 2010 under my former username, Leonoboru, and made a total of 21 edits, of which about 10 consisted of the first two chapters of my TDI reimagining, then known as "Total Drama Island (fanon version)". I quit Total Drama Wiki in the middle of the semester, and got away from my story, to work on a currently abandoned wiki about the Disney movie The Emperor's New Groove and the TV show that followed it.

My return
Two months ago, I was surfing the internet and I thought, "Hey, why don't I go to Total Drama Wiki to see how things are going?" I did so, and created a new username, Jkl9817. After saying hi to the old users I already knew and meeting the users who joined the wiki after I quit, I started to think about my abandoned fanfic. I came back to this wiki to check it, and realized it could still be very nice to keep writing it. Then I wrote the third chapter, and then the fourth. I received two commentaries. That made me want to keep writing. And I did. I left Total Drama Wiki after a week, which was quite enough for me to say hello to everyone, but I didn't leave this wiki. I kept writing. I kept my new username, because it seemed to me as a chance to start from scratch. And I realized what a poor writer I used to be. I improved the first two chapters, and wrote better versions of the following chapters than I'd write at first. Suddenly, I was part of this wiki again.

My current status
And, two months after I rejoined this wiki under a new username, I have written a total nineteen episodes of my first fanfic. As it's a competition story, it really helped me get to 500 edits. It has been praised by several users and became way more popular than I expected. I also got more involved on my social side, although not to the point of becoming a very active member of the community, even because I'm not a fan of online relationships. The first draft of my user page read that I might be more known after I had improved my story. And it really happened. Although I'm still considered a new user by just about everyone, people know me — better, they know my story — and I'm really glad things are working better than I thought at first.

My statistics
Not counting this post, I currently have a total of 500 edits, of which:
 * 383 (76.6%) are Mainspace. This is mainly because I have worked a lot on my story, more than anything else, since I joined this wiki. That's what I'm here for, after all.
 * 8 (1.6%) are Talk. Yeah, not that much. I don't often post commentaries on other people's stories, but I occasionally find some time to read a few ones.
 * 15 (3%) are User. That's the number of versions my userpage had, and it is not much, mainly considering nearly half of my former account's edits on Total Drama Wiki were User.
 * 16 (3.2%) are User Talk. I actually didn't remember I edited other users' talks that often. Most of these edits are probably suggestions and advice to newbies, which I frequently give.
 * 25 (5%) are File. I uploaded a lot of images for my story (one of them is even running for FI), and new versions of some of them.
 * 3 (0.6%) are Category. I guess I don't have to explain it.
 * 35 (7%) are Forum. My second most edited namespace, because of my participation in the Featured Stuff voting.
 * 2 (0.4%) are User Blog. Not counting this one.
 * 13 (2.6%) are User Blog Comment. This is the major source of edits for many users, but not for me. Again, I'm just following the social schedule, but sometimes it's nice to post opinions on the most popular blogs. It's an opportunity to make my voice heard, you know.

My plans
Once I've finished the first season of my story, I plan to work on a noncompetition story about Izzy named "Ordinary Knives." You'll know the details in a near future. Also, there will be at least five more seasons of my reimagining, including new ones, of course.

Thanks
Two months passed. And, in two months, I have achieved much more than a newbie could expect. This is mainly due to the support of some very nice people (who I won't call "friends" because I don't really know them). First of all, thanks to the 57 people who wasted a few seconds of their lives and voted on the poll in my story. Thanks to Chacha for being the first person to comment on my story and still one of its biggest fans and supporters. Thanks to Sprink for not being annoyed at my first stupid question in this wiki. Thanks to Alfan, Jake, Zinc, FanOfStuff, O-ette, ZB and everyone else I forgot for supporting my story. Thanks to all of my story's readers. Thanks to everyone I've talked to on Chatango (I won't cite names, because there are too many ones), for helping me fit in. Thanks to Izzynsierrafan for supporting my pic on the FI voting, even though we have never actually met. Thanks to Zap for his (kinda awkward) support. Thanks to the newbies who followed my advices. Thanks to Reddy for the automatically generated welcome message (XD). And special thanks to Gideon for helping me with just about everything I've done since I joined this wiki.

Epilogue
This is a website. Never forget that.