The place did the time go? It’s Mid July… and meaning, it’s almost August… and with August comes Blaugust – which is why I needed to speak about this 12 months’s Blaugust. Should you don’t know what that’s… don’t fear, I’ll clarify that quickly sufficient.
The essential is: Should you’re excited about running a blog, if you happen to’re already running a blog or if you happen to’re a blogger who hasn’t been energetic in a superb whereas, that is your probability to hitch an superior neighborhood, hang around with folks, take part in a cool occasion and mainly… have enjoyable!
If you wish to learn up on all the things intimately, make certain to take a look at Belghast’s publish on it. Bel at all times places a large amount of effort into organizing and planning these occasions and I extremely advocate studying up on the occasion over there!
What’s Blaugust?
The running a blog neighborhood is nowhere close to as giant because it as soon as was. Many people have aged out of running a blog with real-world tasks and others have simply moved on to different time-consuming hobbies. Blaugust provides us an opportunity to infuse the neighborhood with a recent lease on life as we courtroom new bloggers to hitch the fray. These of us who’ve been carrying the torch of running a blog for many years now can generally lose hope as our blogroll loses just a few voices every year. I personally discover getting out and mingling with different bloggers to be a deeply useful factor with regards to my very own artistic processes. We’ve additionally branched out to assist others who do serialized content material in any format, the main focus being on recurrently participating with the artistic course of. The bustling Discord Group has helped to maintain the power up the opposite eleven months of the 12 months.
Belghast, 2022, Introducing Blaugust 2022, Tales of the Aggronaut
What do you do at Blaugust?
Effectively, it began as a problem to weblog as a lot as potential – with completely different quantities of posts leading to completely different awards, from the Participation Award (Not less than 1 Submit in August) to the Rainbow Blogger Award (31/31 Days). So, you write weblog posts and join with others in the neighborhood basically.
There is no such thing as a “profitable” actually. Quite, it’s about attending to know and connecting to others within the blogosphere, having enjoyable, and mainly taking part in an occasion of kinds, titled #Blaugust2022.
On prime of that, there’s a entire Discord Group discovered over right here, the place you possibly can share weblog posts, learn posts by others, chat with folks and get assist if you happen to need assistance with one thing. There are a bunch of pretty mentors over there with an abundance of expertise. On prime of that, there are quite a lot of completely different bloggers current in that neighborhood from individuals who overview video games or play MMOs or take a look at books – and lots of others. It’s a reasonably excellent spot to be part of!
Options!
This time round, Belghast ready quite a lot of completely different new options that I’m fairly enthusiastic about. Quite a lot of these could assist out with that hurdle of getting began or maintaining the motivation – however crucial factor is having enjoyable, after all.
So, as an example, on prime of the badges awarded on the finish of the occasion, now you can earn “Achievements” or somewhat… Blaugchievements. These are simply kinda enjoyable and should assist with getting in contact with others. Every comes with an “Xbox Stay” themed picture it’s possible you’ll add to your weblog if you wish to!
On prime of that, there are themed weeks that may assist with discovering subjects to speak/write about. None of those are something that it is advisable take part in, after all. Quite, it’s only a little bit of assist in case you’re struggling to provide you with prompts! From the “Welcome to Blaugust Week” (which could deliver in additional folks to the Blogosphere) to the “Introduce Your self Week” (which helps us get to know ya) to different themed weeks, there are many alternatives to seek out one thing to put in writing about. Once more, nothing’s a “should”. The whole lot’s a “can”.
On prime of that, Belghast additionally created a listing of prompts that will assist you to out with discovering fascinating subjects. Yow will discover that record over right here!
Enroll now!
As I discussed earlier than, it’s a enjoyable occasion that acquired me into running a blog and that made it potential for me to get to know so many superb folks that I’m extremely grateful for… and if you wish to take part in that as effectively, you possibly can join the occasion over right here through this kind!
All of the essential bits of data that I didn’t point out right here might be discovered in Belghast’s publish. Once more, test it out if you happen to haven’t but! On prime of that, becoming a member of the discord doesn’t hurt. In reality, when you have any questions you wanna ask, that’s most likely one of the best place to go to!
Private Objectives:
This time round, as talked about earlier than, I need to problem myself once more by writing as many critiques as potential! I’ve already been running a blog day by day for fairly some time, so pushing myself a bit additional to check my limits like that is gonna be fairly darn superb and I’m trying ahead to it. Greater than something, I’m fairly excited to satisfy new folks. I additionally need to get a D&D OneShot going sooner or later throughout Blaugust if the celebs align – timezones will most likely be the toughest think about all of this. I’ll most likely publish one other publish detailing what precisely I need to accomplish throughout Blaugust this 12 months. “As many critiques as potential” is a bit obscure, innit? So, what I imply by that and what precisely I need to do higher is one thing I’ll write out intimately (heh) soon-ish earlier than Blaugust begins off.
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