NaBloPoMo Wrap Up

It's the end of November and I've done it — I've blogged every single one of the past 30 days for National Blog Posting Month. It wasn't easy. Not that I didn't have an opinion or something to say every single day in November. I did. I just wasn't sure that what I had to say was worth saying in a public blog. And when I did feel it was worthwhile, I had to be a journalist about it, which meant researching the topic and providing links when appropriate. Some of my blogs ran as much as 900 words and took a couple of days to write, during which I loaded my blog with filler, or as I more fondly call it, "crap."

I took a look back at the past month and put my posts into one of three categories (I didn't count today's blog):

1. Useful posts, where I wrote something that had some sort of quality.
2. Posts that were mainly links or videos, but were still of interest.
3. The aforementioned filler, or crap, just tossed up so there was something there for that day.

Here's how it added up: Quality posts — 17; Video/Link posts — 3; crap posts — 9

While I'm certainly not proud of the number of crap posts — nearly a third of my output — my quality posts add up to approximately 4 per week, which is way more good stuff than I was writing before. This blog was languishing with maybe a handful of updates a year until I dived into NaBloPoMo.

Will I do it again? Well, not in December! I need a break. Will I at least blog more frequently here in the future? I promise nothing, but I really would like to keep up some sort of regularity with my posting. I'm happy with a lot of what I wrote; I just wish I'd had more readers.