I love the feeling of a new year. I know it is all just artificial, but I like the feeling that I’m leaving a year behind, with all the sadness and helplessness and lethargy that I felt last year left in the past too. So I’m not going to review my last year of blogging, even though I’d already written an eight sentence post all ready for today, and likewise, I’m not going to make any resolutions for the coming year either, as that just dooms me to failure.
However, I do have some good intentions; I want to try some new things this year, some new challenges, maybe something new with photos, and I know it has been a long time since I blogged daily for a month, and I might try that again too, though I’m not making any promises. There might be a gap in the middle of the year, as I explore new places, but that should, I hope, just provide further material for blogging.
Actually, lacking material for blogging has never really been my problem, given that I have a Word document for this blog that holds all my published posts, a long list of possible blog topics, and quite a few drafts (over 200), some only a title or with a few notes, some half-heartedly half-started, others (only a few) that might be largely completed but unpublished posts, posts perhaps that I wasn’t satisfied with, or didn’t feel right for the time but will be one day. This document is where I draft all of my posts, and serves as a backup for my blog, and after reading some warnings about people losing their entire blogs saved on WordPress or Blogger, I have for some years saved it automatically to the cloud (so I can access it anywhere and anytime I like), as well as periodically backing it up on an external hard drive (there’s been too much work to lose it all). That’s my public service announcement, timely today as I read this morning that a friend accidentally deleted one of my all-time favourite posts of hers, and has no back-up.
I am all for multiple exports and saved copies. And I’m with you — there is something about seeing the calendar date change that makes my brain say, “Okay, things can change.”
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I’m not seeing the “newness” of this turn of the calendar. Maybe because 2016’s cold followed me into 2017, I don’t know. But, hopefully, I can get on board the “in with the new, out with the old” train.
Happy New Day. (taking it one day at a time) 🙂
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Yes, this is how I too feel about the New Year, even if it is largely artificial! I really should look into this back-up thing. I have most of my posts saved in my email, but that doesn’t feel to safe to me now that I think about it. I’ll just go ask my teenager, I’m sure he’ll have an idea on this…. 😉
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I have Word dox of all my published posts too. It’s good advice. Love your Monday posts. I look forward to your dailies.
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Happy New Year! It’ll be great to see what new things you try. 🙂
I always have more stuff I want to write than time to actually write it, as well.
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What kind of idiot doesn’t properly back up her blog?? Oh yeah — that would be me. :p 😦 😉 Lesson learned — I’m already working on it! I go through phases where I have so many ideas that I can’t write or post them fast enough, and then dry spells where I have no ideas &/or no motivation to write. I know it’s OK and that it inevitably passes. Looking forward to whatever you have planned for 2017! 🙂
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Ooo, I like the sound of trying new things with photos! And thanks for the reminder – I used to back up every post as soon as it was published, but I got out of the habit back in October when I hurt my knee. I’ve got some catching up to do. 😛
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Smart idea keeping a Word document with blog ideas and drafts.
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