Why I don't do that many blogging challenges
Heya!
So, as you might've heard about recently, this month the augustory blogging challenge is happening over here!
Which, inspired me to talk a bit about blogging challenges, and why I personally tend not to participate in most of them.
So: The thing is, right, when you've been blogging for a decent while, you kind of start to cover all of the big, generic topics these challenges usually ask about.
I've done a little over 200 blogposts now, if you combine this blog and all the stuff on kamiscorner.xyz, and naturally, I've talked about a lot of different stuff over that time period. I've done posts about my history with blogging, about my motivation for running this place, about various other random stuff people might want to know about me, about my writing process, about the topics i choose to cover... Basically, I've done all of the metablogging there reasonably is to be done.
Which, a lot of these blogging "challenges" are ostensibly kind of about metablogging. Because it's easy, right? It's universally applicable! If you can participate in a challenge like that, you'll have things to say about blogging! I just personally have already said most of those things in ways im quite satisfied with.
And... I do wish that we got some more creative blogging challenges here. Maybe instead of focusing on the content of the posts, we could focus on the format? Maybe one about interactive, game-like blogposts? Or more generally, all kinds of bearblog format screws. You could still have the topics be fairly accessible to people, while also keeping things fresh for everyone. Oh well, I'm just spitballing here.
Anyways, this is not to put down anyone who does these challenges or comes up with them. I think they're fun! I enjoy reading the posts of the people that participate! I just wanted an excuse to talk about them for a bit. I've already did the whole blogpost trading thing a while ago, maybe I'll come up with a new format in that vein sometime. Who knows! Would be a nice excuse to get some more material to blog about.
Aaand, that's it for now! Thanks for reading! If you know of any cool blogging challenges on here that aren't metablogging focused, I'd love to hear about them :3