New Blogging Record in May 2023. 5 Things.

[canyonwalker]

This month I've set a new blogging record for myself. I posted a whopping 84 entries in May, a rate of just over 2.7 per day. That eclipses my previous record tally of 81 in August '22 and edges out my old posts-per-day record of 2.67 in September '20.

A few reflections on this 84 post blitz, in the form of Five Things:

• As usual (for when I blog heavily) much of it was driven by travel. Two-thirds of my posts were related to trips I took in May... or was catching up on from April.


• Yes, May was a gonzo month for travel. I came off a big, triple-jump trip at the end of April and had four more trips this month. Yes, I'm tired from all the travel. Also yes, I want to go out again soon because the prospect of working from my desk for several weeks seems mind numbing. 😰


• Posting an average of nearly 3 times a day takes planning. On days when I posted 3 or even 4 journals I had written a lot of the material ahead of time, often the day before but sometimes more. For example, I started writing this post 5 days ago.


• Writing posts in advance is easy on LiveJournal but not on Dreamwidth because Dreamwidth doesn't support scheduled posts. I still had to click 'Post' every time. That's a nuisance. It makes it hard to spread out posts across the day. I try to avoid posting them too close together in time but sometimes it's unavoidable.


• In terms of most used tags, coronavirus still holds the #2 spot on Dreamwidth (2.5 years of history) and a distant #3 in my fuller, 10+ year history on LiveJournal. Though with this month's strong return to traveling vs. thinking about disease, Coronavirus could soon drop a notch in both rankings. We can only hope it continues to fade into the distance in the rearview mirror.