New Bloggiest Month: September 2023

[canyonwalker]

Well, I did it. I wasn't sure I could maintain the pace to do it but I did. I broke my record for bloggiest month. With a whopping 84 posts in September I hit an average of 2.8/day.

Five Things:

1. In terms of posts/month my 84 in September only ties my record of 84 posts in May 2023. But on a posts per day basis it wins, 2.8 vs. 2.71, because September's a shorter month.


2. As with last May, my storm of posts this month was driven by travel. That's always what drives my most prolific blogging. In September I went on two leisure trips and one business trip. A whopping 65 posts were about travel.


3. September was big for waterfalls. A whopping 35 of my posts were about waterfalls (tag link). A big part of that is because we chose to focus on visiting waterfalls on our West Virginia/North Carolina trip. At one point I suggested we hike a peak trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway and Hawk responded, "If there's no waterfall there I don't want to go. This trip is about waterfalls!"


4. Two keys to hitting a record-breaking 84 posts last month were managing to post 3/day through most of my trip and a gonzo 4/day the past six days. I managed both of these by writing lots of drafts on LiveJournal and saving them with future dates, then setting the dates to current as I completed them. I did this on LJ because DW still doesn't support saving posts to publish in the future.


5. Notes about tags: In Beauty I Walk got a lot of exercise this month, giving it to a commanding lead as my most-used tag. Planes Trains and Automobiles also got a bit of a workout and has now eclipsed Coronavirus for the #2 spot in my nearly 3 years of writing on Dreamwidth. Over on LiveJournal where I have almost 12 years of writing, Coronavirus has been in the #3 spot for a while but will soon drop to #4 when No Rest for the Wicked surpasses it. I am glad to see Coronavirus recede.