For a few months, I have been keeping an eye on the number of blogposts I churn out. I was keen to get beyond three hundred for the year and now I am up to 325. I am quite pleased with that.
Back in 2005, when I started blogging, I only published forty two posts. I was happy to click "Publish" just once or twice a week. The following year, 2006, I created 125 posts and it wasn't until 2011 that I cracked the two hundred barrier - producing 214 posts that year.
For the next six years I was always well above two hundred posts a year and then in 2017 I surpassed three hundred posts for the first time - 319 in fact. My most productive year has been 2020 and with a pandemic raging outside perhaps it is unsurprising that I scored 340 posts that year.
Currently, my output for 2022 ranks third overall and with twenty five days left in December I realise that I have an opportunity to make this my very best year - at least in terms of the number of blogposts published.
I imagine that some of you are reading this and wondering what the hell I am going on about. Does it matter how many blogposts I produce? Why bother counting ?And surely - it's quality that matters - not quantity? All good questions but still I am aiming to outdo my tally from previous years. 325 and counting upward!
I make no apology for this slight obsession but I thank you for your forbearance and your visits to this little corner of The Internet. That's what makes it all worthwhile.
Whatever makes you happy!
ReplyDeleteWhat? Sex and drugs and rock and roll?
DeleteMore people should have your "little obsession" . There are many very good bloggers who disappear. They haven't set any goals and dwindle down to nothing. It's a challenge to keep up a steady flow of posts.
ReplyDeleteI am amazed at how I have managed to keep churning the stuff out! Like sausages in a sausage factory!
DeleteI know exactly how you feel about the numbers; i find them all interesting.
ReplyDeleteWell Blogger supplies a lot of numbers and stats. It's nice to keep an eye on them.
DeleteI say go for it! I'm happy to read them all. I wrote much more in the beginning than I do now. I simply ran out of ideas to write about.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why but most days I feel I have an endless supply of ideas. I very rarely dry up.
DeleteQuality matters not quantity? No one ever told me that. Churn them out. Some are ok, some not.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you have more or less put out of your mind the disappointment of losing your old blog,,, but I just reminded you!
DeleteNo apologies needed, either. If it keeps you going, well done!
ReplyDeleteAs of this year, I have begun to post weekly summaries; there always seem to be so many other things to do that keep me from writing as often as I used to, or as I would like to.
Work gets in the way of blogging. It should be cancelled.
DeleteI always visit you every morning , whilst eating my breakfast , and it is a rare day if there isn't a new post from you. Off to see our 4 yr old grandson's nativity play shortly. First time to see a grand doing nativity!
ReplyDeleteI hope your little grandson is playing a key role - like Joseph or The Angel Gabriel and not a sheep or a donkey. Enjoy it Grandma!
DeleteHe was a "narrator". Sat in a corner and popped up every so often in turn with 3 others to say a short sentence. It was lovely to see the little ones doing so well. Only one boy cried on stage and had to go to his Mum!
DeleteThose three kings were a bit scary and why did one of them bring myrrh? A 48 pack of new born nappies would have been more useful.
DeleteYou could easily bump up your output with two posts per day:
ReplyDeleteWhat I had for my breakfast
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What I had for my tea.
I could do very short posts - maybe ten a day and then my score would be 3650 blogposts for the year.... "What I really think about Dave Northsider", "What I really think about JayCee", etc..
DeleteI always read even if I don't comment. I'm not the most talkative person!
ReplyDeleteI feel your presence... The Blackburn Phantom.
Delete1 a day in 2023! I check everyday to see what you have posted.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think I should give up blogging and devote all that energy to a writing project... like a novel.
DeleteYou've done exceptionally well YP. It must be difficult to find a new subject each time you write, but I think you've done a wonderful job of engaging our interest most of the time. You have appealed to a wide range of interests shared by your followers. Let's not forget your excellent photos too, especially those taken on your walks.
ReplyDeleteI've never had any desire to write a blog, but I do enjoy following others, though I may only occasionally comment on some, or not at all on others that I read.
What a lovely, encouraging comment Carol. Thank you very much.
DeleteI have focused more on longevity. I started back in 2003, just a couple years before you. Initially though, I was doing multiple posts a day so I was in the 400 to 500 range for a few years. However as I grew readership, it really wasn't sustainable. The 150 or so I do now feels sustainable.
ReplyDeleteImagine all the history we would have if I had known you back in 2005?
We were young men then. Now we are old farts.
DeleteBlogging since 2005. I didn't even have the Internet until 2009. Sometimes I think I will stop writing blogs but I still seem to keep composing them.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up Dave! Yours is one of my "go to" blogs. I would miss it if you brought the shutters down on it.
DeleteI think it's a fun challenge to sit down every day and see what comes up, so I totally get the appeal of writing very regularly. It's not so much the number for me as the challenge of frequency.
ReplyDeleteI still get a kick out of the fact that I can press "Publish" and nobody is stopping me.
DeleteI always enjoy your blog Mr. Pudding, and your sense of humour. I especially love the photos of the countryside, no surprise there:)
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind support Nurse Lily.
DeleteI've been a blog reader for a few years now. When I visited with my mum, she would sometimes read me excerpts from the writings of her favourite bloggers. After she passed, I adopted her old blogs as a way of feeling connected to her. Then I found more. I admire you and all the bloggers out there who keep at it. My morning blog reading has become the favourite part of my day.
ReplyDeleteYou could write a blog about your youthful mischief and merry larks.
DeleteOutput ?
ReplyDeleteYou're the only guy I know who can count up to three and get two of the numbers wrong.
*Rich Little impersonates Johnny/ Carson Tonight Show.*
YouTube.
I have always suffered from dyscalculia. It's quite cruel to mock my disability!
DeleteThat's a lorra lorra blogs.
ReplyDeleteThank you Cilla.
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