I share Missy and Rowan’s sentiments about Blaugust, despite achieving at least one post each day, the truth is that writing doesn’t come that easily to me and having a rigid schedule feels like I’m not giving my best in terms of post quality. I honestly would much rather skip a day when I feel that I have nothing to share.
Last week I found myself struggling with ideas for posts, I look for inspiration from fellow bloggers and either they is nothing I can expand on or there are the group posts such as the 10 Years::10 Questions about World of Warcraft via Alternative Chat. Having only played WoW on a trial it’s not going to fill much of my blog whitespace.
I haven’t regretted taking on the challenge as I wanted to stretch myself in terms of blogging, I certainly think I have done just that, plus I have discovered a stack of new bloggers so much so that my RSS reader is fit to burst.
Perhaps the next 2 weeks will be little easier, but we’ll see.
I couldn’t do it. I vowed to myself when starting my scree.org blog that I’d only write when I had something to say. Most days I’m too disappointed with the MMO genre to write anything remotely resembling something critical, positive or coherent. Kudo’s for trying ;>
On a side note #blaugust is a huge success, I’ve been tracking lots of new blogs myself and thats never a bad thing. Now if I only had time to convert them to using scr.ee 😉
I can’t believe the number of people trying, it’s very so big.
I was looking at an easier way to add the hashtags to new posts, not figured it out completely yet 🙂
This is indeed a success but i shall not join one of thse again. The joy of blogging gets a bit lost for me.
Yes, if it starts to feel like a chore then it’s not good. Sam goes for games too 🙂
I echo some of your sentiments, but as a whole, the event has helped me to get in a habit of writing more. Ultimately, I think this was the goal.
Blogging is something different for all of us. For me, I don’t write about just games so not everyone doing Blaugust cares to read those posts. It would be cool if this event could cross over into other blogging communities as well.
I do know how you feel, now I’m at the just after half way point I do feel like I’m starting to run out of steam (well ideas!). I do want to keep on with it though, as some really good things are coming out of this and I am still enjoying it. For me personally, I’m finding I do have a lot more to write about than I thought I did and it’s really freeing to not worry about proof reading so much and just getting stuff out (though my post today was a complete shambles!) And it’s really nice writing up my adventures again, I used to do that in great detail (too much!) for EQ2 and sort of lost my way with it, thinking that I needed to either write something useful or have an opinion…
Hang in there though, I enjoy reading your posts even if I don’t get time to comment or like 🙂
And that is obviously the best thing – finding you lot 🙂