Blogtober the 1st

What is Blogtober and why did we start blogging in the first place.

A while ago I heard about Blogtober. Intrigued I dug around a bit further to learn more about this writing challenge. The general idea is that for the month of October you try to post something to your blog each day. It's a networking, learning, trying new things, building habits kind of thing. 

 

 

I have a lot of half written blogs, scrappy ideas and things that I would like to try out. I've done NaNoWriMo a few times now and enjoy the challenge. Hopefully this will actually prompt me to get caught up with some random things and get back into writing which I have sort of put to one side recently. With all that in mind having a go at Blogtober didn't seem like the worst idea in the world - even if it's not the best idea! 

 

 

When we started these blogs (there were 5, one each initially) we weren't totally sure what they would be like. It was purely a way of communicating with those who had waved us off on our adventure and sharing some of our photos. Instagram was less than a year old and I worried that constantly sharing on Facebook would seem a little braggy/boring/annoying. My logic was that by seperating my way of keeping in touch with people and the accounts of what we were doing that I wouldn't be constantly waving it in peoples faces. In case you're interested this link will take you to my First post (a blog with no pictures - shock, horror!). 

I see people sometimes getting stressed about posting schedules. I am very random with my postings and use the blog (at least at the moment) just as something I enjoy doing which means there is no presure for me to stick to any kind of schedule. It's one thing if you are running a professional website/blogsite if that is your business but if you are just writing for yourself and friends and family then the only person putting pressure on is you. Sometimes there are other more important things on and giving yourself extra guilt is never helpful. As a reader I never mind when a blogger takes a break and I will enjoy their next posting whenever it comes.

I do wonder sometimes about the concept of leaving no trace and do give consideration to privacy for the family. We have our own set of rules for any writing or pictures that go on the internet that we have stuck to and have discussed with the children as they grew up. You have to remember I think that you have no control once you have hit publish but you have complete control over what goes on the page in the first place.

So, like this one, some of this months postings may be a bit different to normal but it's nice to try new things occasionally just to see what happens.