What I Learned From a Month of Daily Blogging — Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents

It has been several years since I participated in National Blog Post Month or NaBloPoMo. I published a post every day during November this year.

Particularly challenging this November as I navigated a fine line between disengagement and sanity. Sanity did not always prevail.

Several posts were deep dives inward, exploring my traumas and a recent series of painful events. Frankly, I’m glad to set that aside for a while.

Unlike previous NaBloPoMos, I felt a weight or heaviness with each post. It seems fair to attribute that to current events and the ominous days ahead. But some of that is just me.

I’m glad I completed the challenge even while I’m unsure if I’d do it again. There’s something satisfying about finishing a task. Still, I stirred a lot of pots that won’t stop simmering as we roll into December. Was it worth it?

Well … I mean can we ever really determine that? Not me, at least not after 30 straight days of ripping apart my soul on my laptop.

The reality is that we are in the end stage of blogging. Many bloggers are now restylized as content creators using the 84 million platforms available to them. Others have migrated (back?) to email newsletters a la Substack. This is…