Hello out there! I don’t usually post on the weekends but during Blaugust I find that having some sort of re-occuring feature helps cover those days. So that’s what this is.

We are now at the end of week two, our first full week of Blaugust. Traditionally. “Lessons Learned” is the theme of the last week. However, I find that most years I’m wracking my brain to figure out just what I’ve learned. Often times, I seem to learn the same lessons year over . Maybe that’s because I always read my old Lesson Learned posts before I write a new one. Maybe I’m just prone to forgetting….Yeah, it’s probably that’s.

So this year I thought I would jot down some of my thoughts around the event each in the hopes that I might find some new wisdom at the end of all this.

• Every year, I feel like I start to think about blogging differently around day 3 of the event. I find myself thinking about writing more often, brainstorming ideas in my downtime, and reading other blogs way more than I typically would the rest of the year. Nothing has changed here, I’m still doing all of these this year.
  
• By the time this post goes live, I will have increased my post count for the year by 11 and exceed my post count for last year. That’s not bad, considering before Blaugust I hit publish on a grand total of 2 posts! It’s been fun getting back in to a routine this week. It’s a nice feeling to be creating something again rather than just consuming.
  
• I’m definitely starting to feel that tug to write every day. Slowly but surely building that habit. Even if it is just for this month.
  
• I ran out of scheduled posts halfway through the week. Kind of feel like I’ve been treading water ever since. 31 posts in 31 days is an aspiration for sure but, given that I’m still in the running, I might as well go for it if life permits. I’m taking this weekend to build up another set of posts to get back to that comfy buffer.
  
• There are more blogs this year that are out of my typical reading scope. I’ve made a Blaugust feed separate from my Gaming feed to make sure I don’t skip out on these. Since I spend most of my time hanging around the gaming blog corner of the internet, it’s nice to see tons of personal blogs out there covering a wide variety of topics. Through some of these, I’ve been introduced to the concept of the IndieWeb which I’m finding really interesting the more I dig in to it.
  
• As I suspected, getting back to writing has gotten me back to gaming.