I did a review post on my other blog, and I thought it might be an idea to look back on blogging here too, in what was a very weird year for everyone.
I wrote 78 posts last year, 14 more than the previous year. It might have had something to do with the fact that at the start of the year, a group of blogging friends began another blogging challenge, less rigid than our previous, daily project in 2018. I wrote 21 blogs as part of our project, on topics we decided on together. As the year progressed, we ran out of steam – but if any year is going to make us run out of steam, 2020 was it! Regardless, blogging with friends is fun, and I hope we get to do it this year in some form too.
Fifty of my posts were written on Mondays, or maybe a sneaky Tuesday, but still labelled Microblog Mondays. I do it as part of Mel’s community, and it is a good discipline to ensure I blog once a week. I also got into blogging about trees on the second and fourth Thursdays, with an international group on Parul’s blog. I don’t usually know the names of trees, but it has given me a new way to look at trees as I go about my days.
I write lists – Blogging tip #1: when in doubt, write a list – whenever I begin to lose my mojo, or I am in a rush. Though sometimes, it is just the best way to say what I want to say.
I write about road trips, and friends, and food, and feminism, and pretty much anything. I generally steer clear of party politics or religion. I write about things that drive me crazy, or things that make me happy. I wish I was more deliberate about the art of writing though. Too often (to my frustration) I realise it is Monday, and dash out an impromptu post, without too much thinking, without any art. So what you get is often unplanned, unedited, and frequently unabridged. That’s me, I guess. I hope you don’t mind.
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