To everyone out there participating in Blaugust, I hope it’s going well for you! Especially now as we round past the halfway point and into the back half of the month aka where streaks go to die. Atleast for me.
But not this year!
No, that’s because I haven’t been on a streak this month. I am signed up for Blaugust, yes, but I had no intentions of reaching 31 posts or 20, or 15. A humble 10 would do for me but it’s looking like even that may be too much as I hit publish on my fifth post this month.
It feels different, not racing towards 31 posts with everyone else. While Blaugust isn’t about the number of posts, it is a community event. By declining to even consider posting daily, I feel as though I might be missing out on some of that communal malaise (misery?) that comes with week three of writing everyday.
Perhaps what I’m feeling is the lack of stress that comes when there isn’t an expectation of posting everyday!
This isn’t to say that, by not participating to the fullest, I feel I’m missing out on the amazing Blaugust community that comes with this event every year (really all year long – stick around you’ll see). You won’t see me on the Blaugust Discord too often, I am a lurker by nature and spend most of time reading there and not so much engaging, but as the number of bloggers have grown, I’ve seen the community there has only gotten stronger. It continues to be an incredible group of people supporting each other through through a tough challenge and coming together for the shared love of writing words on the internet.
Outside of August, I tend to stick close to the video game blogosphere and don’t venture out too far. This year, I made it a goal to focus more on reading the blogs of Blaugust, rather than writing my own. My feed has been a treasure trove to sift through each day and sample new voices from the void of the internet. I have encountered ideas, topics, and musings that I would not have discovered otherwise.
While Blaugust has been different for me this year, my enjoyment of the event has not. But I do find myself craving a bit of that “what am I going to blog about today?” energy. So instead of breaking the streak during the third week of August, maybe I’ll start one, just for a little while…
See you tomorrow 😜.
Many Welps 
I started this Blaugust with the intention not to do the whole daily thing, but, this one has probably been the smoothest one yet. We’re up to the 19th (by NZ reckoning), and I’ve only ‘almost’ lost my one day posting lead once.
Even last year it was definitely more of a scramble to keep up for sometimes more than a week at a time. xD
But I think it *has* come at the cost of being as good as I wanted to be about reading others more. So definitely a bit of a mixed bag and certainly not a clear ‘win’.
Having said that… While not perhaps the step change I had sought to make, it does seem to at least be incrementally better than years gone by in this respect as well. So I suppose there’s hope yet.
Anywho … Made any further progress in Qud? xD
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Not much in the way of progress in Qud, I’m sorry to report. But! It’s on the agenda for this week 🙂
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I’m enjoying it more than last year, which I found a bit torrid from the point of view of both posting and reading. This year I deliberately skipped a post early on so I wasn’t “on a streak”. Only one, though, so I can still hit 31 posts in the event if I feel lime it. I’ve also found this year’s new blogs to be much more to my taste as a reader than last time. And that’s without even having seen all of them. It’s so big now I think the idea of keeping up with everything just has to be let slide. Otherwise there really will be burnout.
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Yeah there are definitely too many to keep up with everything every day. I’ve got a feed setup with all of the participating blogs and end up skimming a lot of it. There’s so much variety this year!
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