So I started off this month with the aim of writing one blog post every day for a month and whilst I knew that it would be a challenge I launched into it anyway. It turned out that even with all the topics already road planned out for the month that this was a difficult thing to do. I had technology problems, trouble thinking what to write for some of the topics and in the end will power problems.
Sadly in the end I didn't manage to hit my goal of writing 31 blog posts this May as the will to write them dwindled mid month and I became unable to keep up by the end of the month. Despite being unable to complete the challenge I'm not writing the month off as an utter failure as I did learn some important lessons! The first one is that it's ok to write about topics that are outside of your comfort zone every so often or are a bit different to what you'd normally blog about. While I'm not sure I'd have ever blogged about my morning commute, my first job, a day in my life, advice I'd give my 13 year old self or what's in my fridge normally I now know what I'd put and that these are not topics I want to return to in the future.
It's also helped to remind me about things I enjoy writing about like books, food, travel and music. This has prompted me to think about blogging more about these topics in the future. It had also been good to be a part of the #BEDM group on twitter and visit the blogs of other participants who I might not otherwise have stumbled upon.
There's due to be another challenge in November but I'm not sure that I'll be able to try again then or to post coherent blog posts due to my next big challenge appearing in late September... That as well as November being the month of Nanowrimo! Still I'll be interested to see how other bloggers approach the topics that are set for #BEDN.
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