September Blogging & Backlog
Oct. 1st, 2024 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's been a couple months since I wrote about my stats on blogging. Here's a check-in on the month just finished, September 2024. I wrote 57 entries in the month, for an average of 1.9 per day.
As I often do with goal setting I set a range of three goals, low, medium, and high. The low, or baseline goal is the minimum I want to meet. The medium goal is my target. And the high is my aggressive goal or stretch goal.
As I often do with goal setting I set a range of three goals, low, medium, and high. The low, or baseline goal is the minimum I want to meet. The medium goal is my target. And the high is my aggressive goal or stretch goal.
- My baseline goal has been to write to my blog at least once a day. Years ago I softened that from "post every day" to "average at least one a day". I wish to reassert the original meaning now as I've managed to post every day for nearly 6 months. My last skip day was April 2. I like the discipline and commitment of writing every day. I haven't always felt like it this month.Several days I asked myself, "Does it really matter if I don't post something tonight?" I decided yes, it matters. It matters to me.
- With my average of 1.9 posts/day in September I ably surpassed my target of 1.5. That's more than each of the past two months. What really boosted me in September was the week long trip Hawk and I took early in the month to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Travel, originally for business but in recent years mostly for pleasure, has always been the main driver of my blog.
- I fell just short of my stretch goal of 2/day. I fell short in August and July, too, though came closest in September. Could I have reached 2/day? Absolutely. I have a mental backlog of at least 10 posts I could have written in September... if I'd had the time and the will to do so. Like I noted above, there were days it took effort just to post once.
- There are a few more blogs I've been meaning to write from the hiking & 4x4 trip we took two weekends ago. Yes, that trip is 10 days past now. And there are at least 2 entries, maybe 3, more I aim to write about it.
- I'm behind on blogging about the two TV streaming series I've watched this year. There are be easily 5+ blogs in that category. Though the farther I get from having actually watched the shows the less likely I am to write, or to write in detail. So depending on how long it takes to get to it, they probably won't be 5 entries anymore.
- Politics. As I've remarked before on the topic of politics, though I seldom post about it in this blog it's not because I don't follow politics but because I've chosen to prioritize it lowly as a topic for blogging about. I have wanted to blog about political current events at least a dozen times this month. And of course, that backlog only ever grows. I don't know how many political entries I'll get around to writing in the near future. As I said, while thinking about it is very much top-of-mind, writing about it is low on my priority list.