Well, I managed an entire year of posting every day . . . and I couldn’t be happier that it’s done and over. It was a fun exercise — one I’ve tried and failed at before. But for the most part it only confirmed that I don’t do well with blogging when I feel forced. It feels too much like work and I get lazy with it because it has to be done even though I feel strapped for content. A lot of the things I would have normally found worthy of blogging about this past year never made it to a post because I had to get a post up and I didn’t have the energy to write out whatever interesting thing I was thinking of. I always have draft posts sitting around waiting to be finished and rather than whittle those down this last year I probably tripled the queue because of this.
It will be quite a relief to go back to the normal course of things where I just blog when the mood strikes me. Of course, that doesn’t mean the tons of draft posts I have are any more likely to ever get finished. But I do expect that the blog itself will go back to being a fun hobby rather than an enormous chore.
Anyway, wishing you all a safe and happy New Year!
Pretty amazing accomplishment. (Now you can really appreciate the freedom of writing when you want?) Have a great year…interested to see what appears.
Hi and thank you! I’m actually rather astonished that I managed to go the entire year and post at least once a day. (I actually posted 375 times in total.) I tried to do this a few years back and made it to sometime in April before throwing in the virtual towel. And I definitely wanted to just give up a few times throughout the year because I just didn’t feel like doing it or couldn’t think of anything to post or whatever. But I don’t think I’ll ever do it again! I definitely enjoy blogging more when it’s at my own pace, even if that pace is sporadic at best. ;-)