Happy November 30th – also known as, the end of NaBloPoMo!
It’s always a little bittersweet to end this challenge because I just have so much fun with it and the community that goes along with it. This year, we had such a great group, too, the largest it’s been in years (which is all thanks to San and her unfailing devotion to this challenge and getting people excited about it). While it was very difficult keeping up with everyone’s posts, I tried my best and I definitely have a lot of posts to go back to and read when I get back from my vacation. Expect some late comments on your posts, friends!
I am also really grateful to our non-NaBloPoMo-ers who cheered us on from the sidelines, keeping up with our array of posts and leaving thoughtful comments. There were a lot of you, but from the top of my head, I want to specifically call out Nicole, Kim, and Lisa, three busy ladies who always leave great comments and did an awesome job keeping up with all of these extra posts from us!
I am looking forward to slowing down my post schedule, for sure, and trying to catch up with comments on my own blog. I’m woefully behind!
I am excited to participate in NaBloPoMo in 2023, and I think I really want to challenge myself to write more stream-of-consciousness and shorter blog posts. I have an affinity for writing long blog posts that I spend a lot of time on, but there is also goodness in shorter blog posts. Just because I’m not writing and revising a blog post for over an hour doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of being published on my blog.
In fact, I think that’s where I’ll leave this blog post. I’m clocking in under 300 words so far, which usually is just the beginning for one of my typical blog posts. But why? I’ve said what I needed to say and it’s fine to keep things short and sweet. I hope the other NaBloPoMo-ers enjoyed the journey as much as I did. I’m excited to keep following along on your blogs once November ends!
Thanks for the shout out! It was kind of a lot of work to keep up with all of the posts. I didn’t miss many, though, and learned a lot about everyone in the process! I have never done this challenge and don’t think I ever will but I enjoyed cheering you all on!
You are such a rockstar to get through all of those blog posts and always leave such kind and thoughtful comments!
Congratulations, Stephany!
And I love your goal of writing shorter posts — not because I want to read shorter posts from you (I love the long ones!), but because I may need to adopt the goal for myself. 🙂
It’s such a struggle, isn’t it? It’s just not in my nature to write short posts!
Yay! You did it! Congrats!
I think we should all embrace shorter posts sometimes. It’s good for just getting out there a brief thought and moving on.
Yes, sometimes it’s so nice to read a shorter post because it’s a bit easier to leave a comment when there’s just one thought attached to the post, rather than a long soliloquy. I’m going to try to be better about that!
I have a hard time keeping my posts short; I feel self-conscious about it, but I do want to “write for myself first” (does that sound horribly selfish; I treat this a bit like a diary, but clearly I know other people read it…).
Anyhoo, I think this is just a fabulous way to wrap up NaBloPoMo. Short, sweet, and yet it sums it all up perfectly.
Happy cruising and “see” you in December!
I think you do a great job of having a mixture of short and long posts! But I also don’t feel like you should feel self-conscious about writing long posts. If it helps any, you’ve made me feel LESS self-conscious about the long posts I write! We like to write, what can we say?!
Hurray, we did it! It was nice meeting you this way! I will keep stopping by from now on 🙂
It was so fun to meet you through this blog challenge!
Fantastic job, Stephany! It was so fun to read all your posts. xo
Thanks for being such a trooper and getting through all of our posts last month!
It was lovely to meet you via blogging. I hope you are enjoying your birthday cruise with your mom!
Congratulations on NaBloPoMo! I feel really special to be called out for commenting. Thanks so much!
And I agree – nothing wrong with short & sweet!
Yes, girl. I am so glad you participated this year. I had no doubt that you can follow through with it…. 🙂 but yeah, it is a commitment (esp. also reading/commenting on other people’s blog. So, while I was excited that our community grew this year – and we met so many wonderful bloggers – I am glad the number was still manageable).
Can’t wait to do it all again next year!
It was such a highlight to see so many other bloggers jump on the NaBloPoMo train! There are way more people doing personal blogging than I thought. It’s not a dying hobby!
Yeah for finishing. But I really didnt doubt that you will.
I Realien that too that we all tend to write long long posts which are all worth reading but at times – specially in the challenge – I felt a shorter post would be nice too. So I also wondered if I should have a new more impromptu shorter ones next year.
YAY YOU! I love lreading your posts so write long, write short, I don’t care! I’ll be here. 🙂 I’ll just miss the daily posts even though I am STILL catching up!