March and April Blogging: Two a Day!
May. 1st, 2025 06:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's been a while since I checked my blogging stats— well, it's been a while since I posted about them— so let's do that now.
In April I started out the month strong. Our trip to Georgia was the source of many things to share, and I had little problem writing twice a day on average. Ultimately I wrote 28 blogs about that trip. That was nearly half the month's output! I hit the skids late in the month, though, when I had a busy week at work that left me short on free time— and drained of energy. Writing then about my backlog helped spur me on to reduce that backlog, so I finished the month strong with enough blogs to bring me back up to the 2/day average.
What's in store for May? I've got nothing planned, travel-wise, until our trip to Italy at the end of the month. That'll make for a deep well of stories to share. Half of that writing's likely to slip into June, though, given the reality of backlogging on big trips.
- In March and April I met my baseline goal of writing every day. Some days it was hard and I felt like I had to push to make time to do it, but I did. Even when I was busy. I try to reframe it not as a chore, a thing to be done with time and energy taken away from something else, but as— to borrow an old advertising slogan— "The Pause that Refreshes".
- I met my intermediate goal of averaging 1.5 posts per day because...
- It hit my stretch goal of averaging 2 posts per day— in both months. In March I made it with 63 posts; in April I squeaked across the line with an even 60.
In April I started out the month strong. Our trip to Georgia was the source of many things to share, and I had little problem writing twice a day on average. Ultimately I wrote 28 blogs about that trip. That was nearly half the month's output! I hit the skids late in the month, though, when I had a busy week at work that left me short on free time— and drained of energy. Writing then about my backlog helped spur me on to reduce that backlog, so I finished the month strong with enough blogs to bring me back up to the 2/day average.
What's in store for May? I've got nothing planned, travel-wise, until our trip to Italy at the end of the month. That'll make for a deep well of stories to share. Half of that writing's likely to slip into June, though, given the reality of backlogging on big trips.
