Melonie over at Workerette.com is gearing up for her 1000th post by holding a little contest to guess when she will actually make that post. You don’t have to be correct in your guess to win, you just have to make a guess in the comments. Melonie is pretty prolific in her blogging. She sometimes posts upwards of four or five posts a day. Now, that may not seem totally unusual, but she also has posts of substance, something a lot of more prolific bloggers can not claim.
I can not imagine getting to 1000 blogs. I would like to think that I will someday reach that number and that those 1000 posts will include a lot of things worth reading. We shall see. I guess that is one of the beautiful things (and scary things) about blogging. It allows us to look back over our writing and see the progression and growth (hopefully) that we experience over a period of time. This blog is relatively new, so sometimes I am not sure where I want to go with it or what I think is worth including and what I should leave out of the blog. But, I am hoping that as I continue and get a feel for who is reading and what their interests are, I can get a better focus. Although, sometimes I really like the blogs that do not have that singular focus, but instead go with the flow of their lives. So, I do not want to lose that personal feeling of the blog.
Its tough to know what to do and what is the best approach. For any experienced bloggers out there reading (Melonie?), I would love to know what your approach has been and how you continue to find things to write about that others see as valuable, interesting and/or entertaining.
An early congratulations to Melonie, in case I miss the actual 1000th post. And well-wishes to all the other bloggers who are reading – may your 1000th post come and go with 1000s of readers peering in on it!
This is a great post, Sue. Thanks for spreading the word about the contest and for your kind comments! You’ve asked some excellent questions here. I will try to answer them in a post on Workerette soon. (See – everything is blog fodder. *chuckle*)
I’m nowhere near some of the other bloggers, even on the KMM network that hosts Workerette. One of the gents recently hit 7,500 combined posts. WOW! My other blog is around 250 as of yesterday – you can bet there’ll be a contest there when I get to 1,000 as well.
By: Melonie @ Workerette.com on December 12, 2007
at 3:10 pm
I’m probably going to hit 1000 posts sometime in the year 3000 at this rate. I can’t do 4-5 posts a day. That’s insane.
By: jose on December 18, 2007
at 1:39 am
It may have something to do with your job Jose! I have said it again and again, but I do not know HOW K-12 teachers do it! Teaching college is one thing, but doing it for that many hours straight through EVERY DAY…I salute you! And if you can work in 1 post a day (or really one post a week) around your schedule, I commend you!
By: speechteach on December 18, 2007
at 3:16 am