"Slow" Month for Blogging in July
Jul. 31st, 2023 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerAs I wrap up the month of July I find that it's been a slow month for blogging. Slow is a relative term, of course. I posted 51 blogs this month, beating my long term goal of 1.5/day average (51 in July's 31 days is 1.65/day) but not reaching my stretch goal of 2/day. And that's where the relative part comes in. I've beaten my stretch goal 4 times already this year! Here's how it looks in a chart.
I haven't done a chart since February so I figured it's time. As you can see in this chart, my frequency in July 2023 is down from the previous several months. It's way down from my all-time high in May '23. But it's down so much that to find a slower month I have to look back to November 2021.
Why the slump? What happened? Three things....
First, I didn't travel as much in July as in previous months. After what felt like almost constant travel in April and May I only took two short leisure trips in July. One of them was just this past weekend, and I haven't caught up on blogging about it yet.
Second, on a trip to Oregon earlier in the months I cut out the need for lots of separate blog entries by posting one blog sharing an epic short video of hiking seven waterfalls. That saved me a lot of time versus writing, like, 7 blogs with photos, but it's left me feeling like I blunted the impact of how much we did & saw.
Third, my heart hasn't been in it as much this month. While I have found plenty of things to write about other than travel, I've often felt like I'm forcing myself to write. If I don't care, I don't care, and that's okay.
I haven't done a chart since February so I figured it's time. As you can see in this chart, my frequency in July 2023 is down from the previous several months. It's way down from my all-time high in May '23. But it's down so much that to find a slower month I have to look back to November 2021.
Why the slump? What happened? Three things....
First, I didn't travel as much in July as in previous months. After what felt like almost constant travel in April and May I only took two short leisure trips in July. One of them was just this past weekend, and I haven't caught up on blogging about it yet.
Second, on a trip to Oregon earlier in the months I cut out the need for lots of separate blog entries by posting one blog sharing an epic short video of hiking seven waterfalls. That saved me a lot of time versus writing, like, 7 blogs with photos, but it's left me feeling like I blunted the impact of how much we did & saw.
Third, my heart hasn't been in it as much this month. While I have found plenty of things to write about other than travel, I've often felt like I'm forcing myself to write. If I don't care, I don't care, and that's okay.
