While 31 posts in August is not my goal it’s an aspiration and something I might be able to do one of these days. Looking back, my most “successful” Blaugust was in 2022 where I eked out 26 posts. That’s successful in the sense that it was the year with the most posts, but really more than 0 posts in August is a success in my book. More realistically, I see myself in the 10-15 range this year and would be very happy with that.

I joined Blaugust this year to give me some extra motivation to start writing regularly again. I already feel like that’s working. It may only be day two but I’ve already doubled this year’s post count. I even have two more posts scheduled out this weekend!

You never know though, my future self might find pleasantly surprise me at the end of the month. No pressure on you future self!

To get to that 10-15 post range I will need to spend more time playing games than I have been. I’m not sure if that will come in the form of trying lots of things from my library I haven’t played before or finding a game to sink some time into all month. I’ve been eyeing No Man’s Sky since it just had a graphical update and I haven’t played it in years. I also have a horde of games I, inexplicably, picked up in this years Steam Summer Sale that I really should should play…I’m suspecting it will be a mix of both.Either way, I’m hoping to find something that re-capture my interest and give me some posts to write.

And if not, well, I’ll just have to find something else to write about this month. That could be fun too.

It’s always hard for me to figure out what to say when there’s a large gap in between posts. Do I talk about where I’ve been? It’s been like 6 months after all. Do I start back up like nothing happened?

I was  going to do the whole ‘This is why I haven’t written in a while’ thing. More for myself, really, than any one else’s beneift. Then I got to the end of it and it all seemed very familiar. It turns out, I basically wrote  the same thing earlier this year. So I scrapped that and started thinking about another angle.

I didn’t actually need to do much thinking after all. In the Blaugust kick off post this year, Bel has suggested using the first post of Blaugust as an introduction post. What better way to end a long hiatus than talk about my blog and participate in a month long event with a great community!

I’m Kluwes, this is my blog Many Welps. I write about video games and sometimes fiction podcasts/audio dramas. What you’ll find here are mostly accounts of play sessions either on my own or with my friends (like this). They’re my favorite blog posts to read and also my favorite to write! You’ll also find summaries of games that I finish in my Backlogged posts which I don’t like to call reviews but kind of end up being them anyways.

I started blogging in 2016 during the Newbie Blogger Initiative event with the idea that I would write mostly about MMOs. I also had this, frankly, naive idea that I would play through all of my games in my backlog at the time and write about that. I had only had a Steam account for 2 years at that point, but still 79 games is a lot to go through.

Over the years the blog has changed quite a bit. I found that forcing myself to play games in my backlog was not fun and abandoned that idea after a while. I did get a nice re-occuring post format out of it though so it wasn’t all bad. Over time I had less time to play MMOs and now mostly write about single player or co-op games. I changed the name of my blog from I’m Not Squishy to Many Welps 4 years ago to better align with what I was writing about at the time. I still play games every weekend with my friend group who we’ve deemed the Welp Squad so the name still fits today.

Over the last few years I’ve been spending less and less time playing games and instead focusing on other things. I may try branching out and trying to write about other things. One of my goals for Blaugust is to see if I can’t rekindle that love of games over the next month. Or I might try writing about some other topics and see if I enjoy it. Either way, I want to write more than I have been.

I’m very excited to get back to blogging this month. Bear with me here as I find my footing again. I am so out of practice.