Ahead of Blaugust, which begins on Friday, I thought I'd post a list of everyone who's signed up so far. I knew there had to be one somewhere because Wilhelm at The Ancient Gaming Noob posted a then-complete list of all the names and blogs a few days ago and he must have gotten it from somewhere!
Turns out he's the one who's maintaining it this year and he's been kind enough to format it and include a link (Which I won't include since I don't believe Wilhelm has posted it himself yet.)
Here's how sign-ups stand so far:
That's exactly 74 blogs which, by a wild co-incidence is exactly the same number I claimed had signed up when I posted my Day One Blaugust post last year. I was a bit behind on the count then, as I recall, and by the end of Blaugust the grand total had grown to an astonishing 119 so there's plenty of room for more this year.
Do tag on if you fancy it. The sign-up form is here.
More than half of the above are names I don't recognize, which is fantastic. Lots of new blogs to check out. Looking forward to that most of all. I guess I could start looking at them now but it seems like cheating to go peek before the gun goes off.
Of course, in most cases it probably will turn out to be no more than a peek and maybe a supportive comment. It took me a while to learn my lesson but I've finally come to realize that trying to keep up with more than a hundred bloggers, most of whom are trying to post every day for a month, is just too much of a good thing.
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I always have a lot less trouble with the writing thirty-one posts myself part. Thirty-one posts that anyone would want to read is another matter but that's not part of the challenge. Maybe it should be but who would judge!
Even so, I also decided I would actively avoid the 31 posts thing this year. I had a clever trick in mind. I wouldn't post on 1 August, so I'd automatically have missed the target. Except then it occured to me that the challenge isn't to post on all thirty-one days of the month but to post thirty-one times during it. And that inevitably means that at some point I'd find myself double-posting to catch up.
So I'm not going to make any rules for myself this year and I'm not going to set up any special routines or series, as several other Blaugustians have already said they're going to do. I'm just going to treat it like any other month and post when I usually do. Probably.
Who knows, really? It's so easy to get carried away. And it's one of the easiest times to just knock out a quick post because of all those prompts and the wealth of other good posts to bounce off. So I'm making plans to not have a plan.
The way my plans have been going lately, that's probably going to fall apart, too.
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Pictures of Beryl are ALWAYS welcome!
ReplyDeleteI'll freely admit that the title of this post made me think that you were going to talk about Wuthering Waves again. Not sure why, but that's what popped into my head first.
It's hard to get a picture of Beryl when we're out walking. She's usually off ahead or miles behind.
DeleteI am looking forward to reading lots of posts from both 'new' (to me) and familiar blogs in August! But I have no intent to keep up with everything- I'm not a completionist when gaming, and even less so in other aspects of life.
ReplyDeleteBut as for my own posting- I'm not expecting to achieve much at all. I have three blogs that I should be updating and they are all 'registered'. I would be happy, however, to write eight or so posts in August between them.
I have no excuse for this: just a general lack of energy and/or inspiration. Blaugust will help energize me (I think) enough for at least a bit of writing: that's my goal this year.
I had noticed your output had dropped. Looking forward to a resurgence.
DeleteAnd four more blogs have jumped on board since you grabbed that list. It is going to be a decent year for participation.
ReplyDeleteI think there's usually a bit of a flurry when the event actually starts and people decide to jump in after all. What would be interesting would be to see how many people only ever participate once... but not so interesting I feel like doing the research.
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