From a business standpoint, writing Bang Colombia was a big risk. How many of my readers have thoughts of visiting Colombia in the next year or two? I’ll be surprised if it was more than 50. That means I spent many months writing a book for a few dozen people. Why didn’t I work on my day game book first, which is much more likely to be a financial success?

A couple years ago I realized that you have to write a book because of some duty that calls within you, whether you think the result will be successful or not. I simply had to write Bang Colombia before anything else. I wrote a game book, wrote a travel memoir, lived abroad, dated a lot of South American women—it’d be a waste of experience for me not to.

Anyone who has wrote a book knows it has to be more than about the money. There has to be a calling that drives you to grind it out in front of a screen for hundreds of hours when a million other professions would pay you more for much less frustration. In the end you have to be proud of what you do regardless of what your bank statement says. Otherwise you’re a sellout and a hack.

As for the future, my plans are finally falling into place after a rather aimless start back in the States. I’m horrendous at keeping schedules, but here’s what I want to do in the next year:

July: Complete text messaging guide
August-October: Complete day game book rough draft
November: Complete epilogue to A Dead Bat In Paraguay
December-January: Complete 2nd draft to day game book
February: Prepare for next trip
March: Eastern Europe? Ethiopia and the Middle East? Brazil?
April-June: Finalize day game book while abroad

I’ve already written the outline to the day game book, so it’s just a matter of hauling my ass to the coffee shop for dreaded marathon sessions that I haven’t had to do since A Dead Bat In Paraguay. To hold you over until I’m done with it, check out the day game tips in my newsletter and also in Bang Colombia.

In Brazil I wrote a very rough draft to an unnamed game book which I was thinking of releasing next, but based on its subject matter it’d be more logical to get the day game book out first. So you’ll see two more game books from me hopefully soon and then I think I’ll take a hiatus for a little while. I’ll go live in a quiet village for a couple months or something. Maybe I’ll pick up with some fiction or more travel writing after that.

I’m not lifting a finger until after the holiday. Then it’s going to be like I have a full time job. At least for a little while.

Today marks exactly five years since I launched DCBachelor.com (I did have a blog before that but it was more of a little diary for friends than the game resource it morphed into starting with DCB). Let’s take a trip down memory lane and then talk about the future. I’ve also included a photo from each year to document my metamorphosis.

FIRST YEAR

Two early posts that started getting me attention were whores vs conservative girls and how to get free drinks at Starbucks. By the third month of operation I already had multiple haters and the more I hated on others, the more I got hated on. Go figure.

The blog started taking direction with these posts:

• Brooke Shields Part 1, Part 2
• Women Dating Tips
• American Women Vs European Women (my most commented post)
• You Will Die Alone
• Why Mediocre Women Desire Hot Men
• Most Women Are Only Suitable For One Night Stands
• Bad Game Vs Good Game
• Stop Wearing Flip Flops

At the time there were fewer posts about game than recaps of happy hours and club nights.

The big drama of the year was my epic blog war with “The Senator,” which is nicely documented on this wiki page. Upon winning I took a triumphant victory lap. He has not been seen on the internet since.

The blog wars of yesteryear were far more artfully done and went for emotional impact instead of merely posting private information. Today any slackjawed retard with an internet connection can post someone’s address, but it takes actual brains to force someone’s blog offline with taunts that bring about immense shame and embarrassment. In fact if you have to resort to posting someone’s private information you’ve already lost, because in the end all you’re doing is… posting information.

My favorite post of the year would be Glengarry Glen Ross remix, which was to serve as something you can read before going out. My April Fools gag was getting fired from work.

SECOND YEAR

The blog began to affect my dating life as more girls found out about it. It’s also this time that I started having my first blog groupies (giddy).

I had some guest posters: Sally the intern, Dasha the intern, Chaco, and Miss Metropolis, who you may know as DC nightlife queen Kelly Ann Collins. The hate on them was often vicious.

My rocky relationship towards American women continued with posts like why are you out, diamonds, if I was a girl, and two and out. I even sold t-shirts that read “I Pump And Dump.”

My favorite game posts were the tight game week series, status, and womanly advice.

Besides that I took a blow up doll to the beach and Dupont Circle, made women cry with this post, went to Spain, started thinking about moving abroad with discussion on international women, was saddened by someone’s death, started the player or poseur series, introduced the cost per notch, moved the domain to RooshV.com, and started a new blog called Furball Approved where I’d post funny videos that were reviewed in the voice of my cat. It only lasted a few weeks.

My two favorite posts of the year were my wisdom teeth story and my rules of life. For April Fools I tried to convince you that I was gay.

I had my full name and job posted on the blog of a gay man, who begged his readers to contact human resources. But his information was dated and he ended up posting the place I worked at several months prior. His attempts to destroy me failed, obviously, and I think it all stemmed from the fact that I rebuffed his advances at a blogger happy hour. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

His/her blog was dead last time I checked.

THIRD YEAR

Blogging continued to affect my sex life while I learned that women who showed affection made me happier. I bashed Americans, introduced the flag metric, started learning Spanish, and got tired of women who think they understand women better than men.

Three big events this year: I quit the corporate grind, went to South America, and released Bang. There weren’t many game posts because of the energy that went into the book, but I do like seven ways to improve your game, hung up on the opener, and playful vibe.

My experience in South America led to these popular posts:

• Thoughts
• Guiding Principle Of Male-Female Relations
• 10 Common Travel Scams
• School Of Argentine Girls
• Brazilian, Argentine, and American girls
• Introduction To Brazilian Girls

That last one is the most visited post on the blog right now.

South America beat me up, I came home, and so began the healing process.

While it was a very exciting year for me, it was the worst year for my blog. The content wasn’t that great and I alienated my core audience by writing more about travel than game (it’s no suprise that the year saw the blog’s lowest traffic). I don’t have a favorite post and even my April Fools gag was weak (starting a new blog called Puppy Dogs & Ice Cream).

After this third year I realized that even if I win the Nobel Prize in Physics I’m still expected to mostly write about game. I’ve accepted that. You know there’s things you want to do (have a video blog starring a cat) and then there’s things that you’re good at.

FOURTH YEAR

Back at home I was lost all love for D.C. and realized I wasn’t going to meet the perfect woman, though their easiness did keep me heavily in the game for the next year.

I gave women advice, continued to piss people off (I even detailed the strategy of my haters), was more careful about where I deposited my seed, stopped caring about if a girl orgasms or not, bashed Americans and feminists, shared a masturbation strategy, was a hot girl for a night, stopped taking showers, gave my friend parenting tips, became seriously uninspired with American girls, and got so enraged with cockblocking that I offered a way to stop it for good.

Also I made a travel blog (that is sort of dead at the moment), went to Las Vegas with Virgle Kent, opened the forum (which has become pretty active), put out my philosophy on life, wrote a short story, bartended, made a few videos, put a lot of work into my newsletters, and started teaching workshops on day game.

My favorite game post from the year is how to pick up girls for real, though overall I’d have to go with the perfect woman post. The April Fools gag was moving to Rio for a girl.

This year I considered taking a lengthy break from blogging, but it was more about dissatisfaction with where I was in life at the moment than a dislike towards writing.

FIFTH YEAR

BOOM! KABLAM!

At the risk of letting my ego talk, I think this last year was my best yet. My thinking was clear and my experiences rich, making it somewhat easy to consistently put out good content. I like so many posts that I’m not sure where to start.

I advised you not to date girls who like poetry (e.g Poetry Girl), talked about girls who faked about knowing my blog, dropped some more Argentine girl knowledge, wrote a letter to Virgle Kent, expressed an interest in needy girls and a disinterest in girls who love to eat out, talked about a magical land where lemons are green, got on men’s rights guys while musing about what it takes to be a real man, shot down the idea of banging prostitutes, got stalked by a girl I creampied on a Colombian bus, and defended the honor of a Brazilian guy who got cockblocked by a fat pig

American women got a lot of blog space this year. I wondered about the best age to date one, complimented their easiness while defending the idea of travel to countries that have harder women, responded to a man-bashing older woman, got on feminists who wanted to make bad pick-up lines punishable by jail time, hypothesized about why their brains are damaged, identified one of their universal problems, criticized them for looking like shit while traveling and having children while single, and brought it all home with a conversation about what’s wrong with America.

My favorite game posts:

• The 9 Immutable Laws Of Pickup
• 18 Reasons Why You Don’t Get Laid
• 16 Different Types Of Game
• Definitive Guide To Going Out Alone
• The Secret To Getting Laid
• How To Cheat On Your Girlfriend Without Getting Caught
• The Dark Side Of Game
• Three Reasons Why Guys Fail In The Game
• The Two Things That Tight Game Comes Down To
• Why You Don’t Need To Understand Women
• How Culture Shapes Game
• Be That Guy
• True Cost Per Notch
• Banging Girls Who Don’t Speak Your Language
• Balancing Between Compliments And Insults (Examples)
• Logical Thinking Increases The Size Of Your Sack
• The Best Motivator That Gets You Approaching Girls
• You Can Only Hit Your True Potential By Getting Rejected
• How To Tell A Girl What You Do
• Stop Being Needy
• How To Get Laid Without Approaching
• How To Tell If A Girl Is Serious About Fucking

I also taught a reality workshop, gave an introduction to Buddhism, did a big site survey, put out a video on Medellin, Colombia, shared my dune buggy adventure in a Brazilian beach town while offering travel tips of the northeast and the city of Vitoria, gave a strategy for living abroad, tried to motivate you, shared my system for learning a foreign language, and released my second book.

I closed comments for six months and while everyone says it was a mistake, I’m satisfied that I stayed motivated to blog without the instant feedback and validation. The thirst to share wisdom is within me. (Fun fact: I’ve banned 39 IP addresses since bringing comments back, and put a dozen others in the moderation doghouse.)

My favorite post of the year was what are you waiting for though I really did like how the dune buggy story turned out. The April Fools gag was going to Ethiopia to feed starving children. It absolutely cannot be topped.

Creatively it was a good year and I’m proud that I was focused and disciplined enough to dig all of it out of my huge, throbbing brain. As a result the blog is receiving the most traffic it ever has.

THE FUTURE

My goal here is not win awards for my writing but deliver ideas and experiences in a way that you can learn, understand, apply, or be entertained from. While I’ve said most of what I wanted to say about game, American girls, and South America, I still think I have things left to contribute. As long as I push myself outside of my comfort zone (i.e. stints living abroad), there should always be cool ideas popping in my head.

I don’t know exactly when but I do see myself cutting down on posting from three times a week to eventually two and then one. I think this is inevitable for those bloggers who have been doing it for so many years, as you simply cannot keep up production (and motivation) from your peak. I don’t see this as a bad thing though: as long as the quality remains strong I think you’ll still get a lot of value. In the meantime I plan on putting out a few more books, and I’m currently working on two simultaneously.

Lastly, I wanted to thank everyone for their support over the past five years, for buying my books, taking my workshop, linking my posts from your blogs, and leaving encouraging comments and emails. Otherwise my life would be probably be very different. Thank you.

Here’s to another five years.

I’m taking off until next week. In the meantime here are some recent posts worthy of another look:

1. Do Not Help A Girl Out With Her Problems If You Want To Fuck Her
2. The Best Motivator That Gets You Approaching Girls
3. The 9 Immutable Laws Of Pick Up
4. Interview With Muscle And Game Master Virgle Kent
5. Brief Introduction To Buddhism
6. The Two Things That Tight Game Comes Down To
7. Never Tell A Girl That You’ve Been In Love Before
8. 18 Reasons Why You Don’t Get Laid
9. Don’t Go To South American Clubs With High Cover Charges
10. Thoughts On The Balance Beween Caring For A Girl and Being Completely Apathetic
11. Are You A Real Man?
12. 16 Different Types Of Game
13. How To Tell A Girl What You Do

Still bored? Check out the full archives from RooshV.com and DCBachelor.com, where you can browse by post title and month. As of today I’ve put up 1,295 posts. I also have a Twitter feed, in case you’re into that.

“So Roosh, what have you been doing since you finished A Dead Bat In Paraguay?”

I’m glad you asked.

I have completely overhauled all my game tips newsletters. I gave them a new look, edited for clarity and typos, removed fluff, and added new moves and techniques. That may not sound like a big job but all my newsletters combined clock in at 47,000 words, only 13,000 words shy of Bang.

If you’re already subscribed you’ve probably already seen the new design. Something new is that for each edition I throw in a different quote I like.

Here’s a sampling of the emails you’ll receive if you sign up:

• How to handle flakey girls
• How to pick up girls in coffee shops
• The one thing that makes girls see you as more confident
• An easy way to isolate a girl in a bar
• When is the best time to approach a girl?
• How to pick up girls on the street
• The reason why she isn’t calling you back
• Simple move to defeat bedroom resistance

There are over 30 more editions with tips on day game, night game, approaching, venue selection, conversation tips, dating strategy, and sealing the deal. My newsletters are basically a free book on game that you get in snippets at regular intervals. I don’t share your email address with anyone and you can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up on the forum below…

If you can’t see the sign-up form above then you’re probably running some type of adblocker. Simply send a blank email to roosh-game-tips@aweber.com to sign up.

It’s been six months since I’ve had comments on the blog. The main reason I took them off was because I felt that the signal to noise ratio was too low.

For the past month or so I allowed comments on my posts over in the forum. It hasn’t been extremely active but there was some good discussion and only twice did things get somewhat a little out of hand, but even then it wasn’t the hate-fest that regularly went on here (part of which I take blame for due to my sometimes passionate style of writing).

So I did some thinking and came up with a simple idea: have a clear rule that encourages good discussion. Here’s what you’ll see just above the comment button tomorrow:

Criticism is fine, but be respectful. If you wouldn’t read your comment outloud to its intended recipient in his or her home then don’t post it. Comments that break this rule will be deleted. Thanks.

I came up with this when I remembered how very polite my blog haters were in real life when I met them, probably because it’s very hard to hate on someone face-to-face who hasn’t wronged you personally. Therefore if you wouldn’t read your comment to me or whoever it’s directed to in person, then a revision is in order.

I want to give it a trial run for a month or two. A part of me feels like not having comments enabled chokes off some good insights related to the topics I write about here, and I want to give it one more shot. Let’s see how it goes.

I’m going to the beach. I’ve assembled a collection of twenty posts for you to review and study while I’m gone…

1. How It Feels Like To Be A Hot Girl
2. The Movement To End Cockblocking As We Know It
3. An Argument For Only Approaching When You Have the Upper Hand
4. The Downside Of Hitting On Brazilian Girls In The U.S.
5. Gimmick To Pick Up Without Doing Any Work
6. A Short Story Of Getting Played By A Feminist
7. Ideal Age Range For Dating American Women
8. The Secret To Getting Laid
9. The Dark Side Of Game
10. Three Reasons Why Most Guys Don’t See Game Progress
11. Why Understanding Women Will Hurt Your Chances At Getting Laid
12. The Do-Or-Die Importance Of Kissing A Girl On The First Date
13. The Best Way To Walk Away From A Bad Approach
14. How Talking About Her To A Guy Friend Reduces The Change You’ll Bang
15. The ‘Less Is More’ Technique To Kissing Girls
16. Things To Know When Banging Girls Who Don’t Speak Your Language
17. Differences Between Needy Girls And Confident Girls
18. The Fine Balance Between Compliment And Insults
19. How To Pick Up An Ethiopian Girl
20. The Fact That Game Won’t Always Work

See you in a week.

I just passed 5,000 subscribers to my email newsletter. Here’s a small sampling of the emails you’ll receive if you sign up…

• Why isn’t she calling you back?
• How to handle girls who turn out to be flakes
• Stressing out over missed opportunities
• How to pick up girls who have boyfriends
• A weird opener that stops girls dead in their tracks
• First date survival guide
• When it’s your life or death duty to bang that
• What to do when a girl calls you a robot

I think it’s interesting that a lot of people on my newsletter don’t read my blog and a lot of people who read my blog are not on my newsletter. Anyway, on Thursday I’m emailing an update to everyone about some exciting things coming up soon.

I don’t share your email address with anyone and you can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up on the newsletter page or right here…

I’ve noticed a couple changes to my forum in the past couple months. Whereas before there was a dearth of expertise in the Girls forum, there has been a noticeable increase in guys who know what they’re talking about, with less “How do I get this girl?” questions from guys who can’t type complete sentences. The biggest surprise though has been Travel forum, which is becoming a resource where many guys use to plan their vacations (see this post on Iceland).

Thankfully, you won’t find many acronyms or five page “field reports” of cringe-worthy lines.

Here are some interesting recent threads:

• Going to Brazil in June
  
• Chance of getting laid in India
• Just landed in Rio
• Prague
• Medellin
• Safety/Protection in South America
• Older guy wants younger girl
• The jaded girls
• Situation suggestions?
• Any other smokers out there?
• What’s up with American girls?
• Cooking for women
• Better part of the Middle East