I wanted to let you know about some upcoming changes to the blog schedule. Beginning on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, I am going to begin publishing posts here 3 days a week, instead of every day. You expect new post on Tuesdays, Thursday, and Sundays.
May 15th was the 500th consecutive day that I have published new posts here on the blog. There are two main reasons why I am giving up the streak and reverting to a lighter scheduled:
- I have started to write fiction again. After more than five years of writer’s block it feels good to be writing again. This fiction writing has created a time conflict. I’ve found the time immediately after my morning walk, when the house is still quiet, to do this writing. It so happens that this was the time that I did the bulk of my blog writing. But the fiction writing is going well and I want to encourage that, so I’m sacrificing some of the blog writing time in its favor.
- Writing for the blog nearly every day for the last 500 days is beginning to wear on me. I want it to remain fresh and fun. I want to avoid being too repetitive here. I think cutting back to publishing 3 posts a week will help with that. It gives me more breathing room and more time to think of ideas for things to write about.
This doesn’t mean that there won’t be the occasional Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday that a post will appear. But my goal will be to publish 3 posts a week to lighten my load to that I can focus a little more on some of my other writing.
During the 509 day streak, I wrote 621 posts for a total of 455,000 words. Not bad for a hobby!
I imagine there are many joyous readers right now who think that even three days a week too much of my writing to bear. Those readers can look forward to the days when I post nothing. Of course, every post I’ve ever written (more than 7,100 of them) is still here for people to read. A good starting point for those who want some variety is my curated index to the blog.
Just remember that Wednesday, May 25, 2022 will be the first day in 509 days that there will be no new post published. Don’t worry. There will be a new one on Thursday, and then Sunday, and then Tuesday, etc., etc.
As always, I’m grateful for all my readers here and I hope you’ll stick around, despite the lighter schedule.
Written on Thursday, May 19, 2022.
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500 straight days of blogging? That’s awesome on many levels. I can only manage 1 blog post a week! And I do these in advance. Perhaps because each blog post has so much of research involved, I don’t know. What I love about your posts is that it’s like having a peek into a person’s life, and I truly miss blogs like these and actively search them out. You have a right balance of how tos and musings – I am really enjoying it.
That said, I get what you’re coming from in terms of cutting back to write more fiction. I’m thinking of doing the same. I write sci-fi too, and I was on years-long block too. Incidentally I think I stopped writing around 2018, when my career hit a few bumpy roads. Now that I have some stability in my life, I hope to reignite the engine again.