Well, I did it. A blog post a day for a whole month. I wonder what the percentage is of those who start the project and successfully complete it.
There are only three blog posts that I can think of that could be filed under “questionable” which is pretty good. And I’m including that Crock Pot Ramen post. Not bad. Especially when compared to previous years.
I did learn to make good use of my drafts folder this year. Planning a little ahead really helped a lot. Even having half a post sketched out saved a lot of time – those times I could just sit and write it made the process easier. When I didn’t have a lot of time to write I could dip into my drafts and find one that was more or less complete and use it.
Also this year I wasn’t afraid of writing a post ahead of time and scheduling it to be posted. One example of this was my Thanksgiving post as well as the one I had set up for the day after. When I have time to write, I just needed to sit down and write. At times this would give me a couple of posts that were in my drafts folder ready to go for those times I didn’t have time to write. This was another use of my drafts folder.
That drafts folder really worked. WordPress has a back-end that allows me to log into my blog and without even calling up the section to type up a blog post just plug in a title and sentence or two right from the full page of the pack end. This was very handy when I had nothing more than a title or an idea. I could log in and without any further clicks or navigation have it recorded for future use.
Well, I did it. Another successful NaBloPoMo behind me and I feel pretty good about it. Actually, I think it was my best yet. Yay me.