Fantastic blog! I had forgotten that this happened just before Christmas. I remember the gut-punch that losing the writing was though. You'd been writing with one of your friends for a long time in that one collaborative world. And, you and I had I think been in the middle of separate stories set in the same world.
BUT! Here we are bud. More than a decade later, and taking the first steps to fully regaining the spark of writing! Way to go!