Blaugust...?
There is apparently a thing people do where they blog every day in August. Similar to Weird Web October (which I wasn't able to keep up with lmao) or inktober or what have you, I guess.
I am excited that some of the blogs I read regularly are trying to do Blaugust. I won't link to them directly because I don't want to add to the pressure, haha, but maybe I'll link to them later??? August is just getting started and people deserve a moment to get going, I think.
I have been blogging every day since Cohost announced it was shutting down and I decided to start blogging again. I've already written once or twice about what that's like, but here's an update:
- I started off with a two-week queue that functioned as a very long, safe buffer for me. I kept this up for about 3-4 months before the queue finally depleted. I currently have very little queue and rarely have more than 2-5 posts in the hopper.
- Recently, in July, I was in a situation where every single day, I had to write the post for that day. I found that a little unpleasant.
- I often write multiple posts in advance on the same day when I'm feeling like I have a lot to say. This sometimes, but doesn't always, happen on weekends.
- I almost never write posts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, which are my days that I'm Big Busy in my real life.
- Posting a link roundup one day a week is a great way to reduce the amount of work you have to do to blog every day. Presumably you have an RSS reader if you are the kind of freak who is trying to do this... just tag stuff you like in the reader and summarize it as you go. I build my Sunday link roundup posts bit by bit during the week.
- Weeks that I miss a chance to do the roundup are weeks where I was too busy to use my RSS reader very much.
Enjoy blogging. It is great and good. You don't need to blog every day but I recommend doing it if you think you can. I want to see all your yammering. It's good to yammer. The more you yammer, I find, the more you have to say in general.