NaBloPoMo-rs: We did it! It’s the last day of November. (And everyone who has been trying to keep up with all of our posts: You can breathe a sigh of relief. We won’t be clogging up your feeds every single day… until next November, that is.)
This was a weird year of NaBloPoMo for me, as I kinda flew by the seat of my pants for most of this month. At least for me—I live and die by my editorial calendar and usually have a few months of blog topics planned in advance. For the last two years I’ve done NaBloPoMo, I’ve planned out every single day and followed that plan perfectly. This time around, I planned out probably half of my month and left the rest of the month open for whatever topics came to me during the month.
And, funnily enough, that non-plan worked out perfectly as every day that I came to this blog to write a post, I had something in mind. It might have been something that came to me during a Google search (Picking Out a 2023 Advent Calendar), or perhaps another blogger gave me an idea (In Which I Lose All My Readers by Talking About Car Organization), or maybe I hit a special blogging milestone midway through the month (2,000 Blog Posts Later), or sometimes it was just a post about something I was going through in the moment (Depression Toolkit).
This doesn’t mean I’m giving up my editorial calendar. LOL, no. I need that structure in my life. It helps me publish three blog posts a week because I know exactly what I need to write about. But, perhaps, I could stand to be a little more flexible with how I structure my editorial calendar—and I can definitely continue this flexibility into next year’s NaBloPoMo.
I was very apprehensive to do this challenge again this year. It’s a lot of work writing a blog post every day! And to keep up with other people’s blogs. And to somehow maintain my other hobbies and friendships and family and work life. But I knew I would have FOMO if I didn’t do it, which isn’t always the best reason to do a challenge like this, but I’m glad I decided to do it. It was fun, I got to connect with so many people, and I wrote posts I’m really proud of.
And now? Now, it’s back to my regular three-posts-a-week schedule, which my typing fingers are really glad about. 😉
Yay!! It has been so fun to read along 🙂
Congrats on NaBloPo 2023!!! When you say “we won’t be clogging up your feeds” I think you mean “and now you’re going to be so lonely every time you go on to feedly”.
There was a lot of good stuff this month, but your week in the life series was one of my favorites.
I’m so glad you enjoyed Week in the Life. It makes it that much easier to put it in my NaBloPoMo 2024 editorial calendar!
Congrats on finishing! I’ve enjoyed your posts a lot!
Congratulations on finishing NaBloPoMo. It is an accomplishment and you now deserve to do less writing, giving you poor little fingers a rest.
Congratulations on finishing strong!
Yay! Congrats! I’ll be sad not to see your posts daily, but won’t it be nice to get back to a sort of life when blogging doesn’t seem to be the main focus?!
Woot woot!!! You did a great job!
It has been so fun to read along. I usually have some sort of plan too with post I really want to write and publish logged in and then some random stuff I can move a round. And lots of holes to fill. I personally felt a bit overwhelmed this year and more like winging it. I didnt write the deep meaning full posts I had planned but I just couldn’t. AN then I wondered if those posts are actually so good being published during NabloPo where everyone is trying to read and comment as much and visit the blogs. Maybe shorter and fun posts are better suited for NabLoPo? Well, I have no final verdict but there is next year to go at it again.
That’s such a good thought, Tobia! Maybe it’s better to keep all of our posts short and sweet during NaBloPoMo. Makes it easier on us AND easier on the people who are reading.
OMG Stephany you know you had my interest with that leading pic 😉 (LOL, you ALWAYS have my interest!) P.S. That reminds me to tell you I sent you that specific rock cause it made me think of your girls “helping” you at work!
Congratulations! I am glad being more laissez faire worked out! It’s nice to have a little structure with freedom too.
I am very glad this challenge is over today LOL.
When I saw the rock photo, I had to post it for you! Hehehe.
The rock you painted for me is SO perfect. Those girls of mine loooove “helping” me work, don’t they?!
Yay Stephany, way to go to finish strong! I am so glad you joined again this year for NaBloPoMo. I always love seeing your post pop up in my Feedly and you did so well, even though you didn’t have it all planned out in advance 😉
Thank you for hosting again! It’s a fun blogging experience because YOU make it that way!
Yay! I’m vry glad you decided to do it again this year. I think your method definitely worked, and I also love the week in a life series. I’m sad it’s over but I’ll be happy to FINALLY finish my book!
We can do so many things now! I love doing the challenge but glad I do not have to write every day!
Oh, man, thought I commented on this! Oh, well. Now you know (ha, like it wasn’t clear) that I loved seeing you pop up in my feed daily. I’m so glad you were in on it again this year, and that you’re (fingers crossed) going to be doing it next year. I found my 30-days-of-posting-not-quite-in-November to be so much more fun than anticipated! Thanks for being one of my inspirations. 🙂