BlogaDay: In Review

Again, didn't get around to posting during the 24-hour period. But my rule for years and years has been: It's not tomorrow until I sleep, so I'm calling this November 30. Shame that Blogger doesn't support flexible dating. It's enough to drive a man to WordPress, or Moveable Type if he's feeling adventurous.

BlogaDay lessons learned:

• This is hard. I wrote the first week all at once in a fit of pique, and then wrote several more days ahead of time during the first week. I ran out of prepared content halfway through and started riffing.
  
• But it’s not that hard. A couple hundred words a day is doable.
• I got more polished stuff in the first half, but the second half was more surprising. I think I prefer polish.
• I’m not sure if anyone else thinks this, but I think I’m funnier writing late at night. You probably can't tell which ones I wrote at night, since the time stamp only occasionally corresponds to the writing time. I said things in late-night posts that I wouldn’t have said under the sun, and occasionally questioned the next day. But I didn’t take it down either. (Although I feel a little bad for calling Russel Davies an Internet douchebag.)
• Posting every day gave me impetus to do other things. I finished books and completed projects that I wouldn't have worked as hard on if I hadn't wanted to use it for blog fodder. That word puzzle, for instance, has been sitting around half-finished for over a year. Using it as a rainy-day post impelled me to finish it, AND got it out in front of an audience.
• Interactivity is challenging. I'm uncomfortable in front of an audience that talks back. I prefer media where I can put it out there and fade behind the layers between me and the reader.
• This forced march has been a good experience. I don't think I had the self-discipline to do it before now in my life, and I know I didn't have the grace to let myself miss a day like I did and keep going without feeling terrible about it.
• I have momentum, and I haven't decided what to do with it. I'm in the habit of posting every day now. According to Google Analytics, I'm up to 4-6 discrete daily readers. Seems a shame to put it down.

Chances are good I won't post tomorrow, but I'll be back on Sunday. Thanks for reading BlogaDay!