After the chaos of my June blogging, in July my main goal was simply to get back into the habit of writing and publishing a post every day. At that I succeeded.
However, I did not work on my word for the year, story.
And I anticipate a bit more chaos in the upcoming weeks because we are taking a two-week cruise along the West Coast between Seattle and Alaska during the last week of August and the first week of September. Once again, both my internet connectivity and my free time will be limited. I am therefore not setting any specific goals other than to end up with a post for each day until the second week of September.
Here are my statistics for last month:
Number of posts written: 31
Shortest post: 210
Longest post: 1,770
Total words written: 22,340
Average post length: 721
I was happy to get my word count back up after June’s scant month. In fact, July’s total word count was the second highest of my seven months of this blogging challenge. And my average post length was the third highest; although I had seven posts of 1,000 or more words in July, I also had several shorter (500 words or fewer) posts as well.
Distribution of posts across my three blogs:
Because our two-week European vacation produced an inordinate number of posts to my personal blog, Retreading for Retirement, in June, in July I tried to even up the number of posts across the three blogs.
The total of posts here may not equal the number of posts written last month because I occasionally publish the same post on more than one blog. However, I have included each post only once in my total word count.
Last month’s featured post:
I’m featuring this post for several reasons:
- It was my longest post of the month.
- The topic is one I happened upon in a visit to someone else’s blog.
- The topic engaged me personally and therefore helped me concentrate on voice as I was writing.
Overall, I consider July to have been a good blogging month for me.
I’d love to hear your comments.
