Well, I’m a little more than halfway into the 2012 Blogathon, and so far, I’ve kept it up. I’m in the game, baby!
Here’s what I’ve learned:
- This isn’t quite as hard as I thought it would be. The hardest part is finding pictures to put into posts.
- I’m not fond of the SEO stuff, either. Coming up with keywords gets tedious
- I’ve had to create more categories.
- There are more things to write about than time to write them up!
- I write fast, so I make a lot of mistakes. At work, I have editors who go through my articles and make them better (and I have worked with many wonderful editors over the years.) Here, I just keep going back into WordPress and making edits.
- It’s nice to have an outlet for some of my rants.
- But I still don’t know if I am adding any value to the millions of blogs already out there!
Two weeks to go. Let’s see if I can keep it up!
Good assessment of the first half of the challenge Ann. The blogathon challenge is a great way to bring focus and organization to a person’s blogging efforts, so I’m glad to see that you’re figuring that out. I agree with you that when it comes to blogging, writing is only half the battle. It probably takes me as long to find and add an image, add a description, category and keywords as it does to write a post.
I’m so glad you’re joining us this year, hang in there, we’re on the downward slope to being done!
Michelle Rafter
I agree that posting every day doesn’t feel like such a huge challenge this year. It has for me in the past, but this year I’m taking a much more laid-back approach to the Blogathon.
I also ask myself the same question about whether I’m adding value with my blog. I have a food blog and there are a million of those. My hope is that my posts will inspire others to cook or learn more about food or to think about the role food plays in their lives. That’s probably not enough to make me stand out from other food bloggers, but it’s what I’ve got right now.
Only one week left to go. Good luck!