Last week, when talking with my friend (and phenomenally consistent blog poster) Jen, aka Haly, brought up my blogs lack of updates and how I should get around to doing so.
The truth is that I wanted to, but for one reason or another I’d always end up doing something else instead. I’ve actually had plenty to write about, the football season, the World Cup, the latest video game releases, movies, people and more.
I originally intended to write a blog post a day for 365 days, this was going to be the challenge for 2010 in the same way that the IMDb Top 250 was in 2009. All was well until a #oneaday Twitter group intended on doing the same thing. Of course, I don’t have a problem with it all, it’s a free world and it was originally intended as a way to write smaller, but more consistent blog posts, more for myself than anyone else, but perhaps make them a little more personal.
The downside to other people writing was that, although unintentional, it felt like the magic of what I was attempting was gone, spread across the masses for many others to indulge in, and in return, I ended up being seen as *just another* #oneaday poster, and I didn’t want a group heading to what I was doing, so after a month I decided to stop and just post maybe a few times a week, but detail them more, but of course, without the structure of my intention, that fell by the wayside.
Now that we are essentially at the half-way point of what would have been my own challenge, there are very few posters still managing to post every day, Halycopter being one, which I’m both impressed by and also quite jealous of, even after a fortnight I understood what an undertaking it was going to be, sometimes struggling to come up with anything to write about then, so to be, at my count, 185 posts as of July 4th, is incredibly impressive.
This is the reason for the post, it was quite clear that I was updating daily and suddenly stopped, I wanted to explain why it fell away. I figure as I continue pay for the hosting that, even if it’s not too regularly, I should post at least something.
Thank you for reading,
NokkonWud
