Blaugust Begins 2022

We are live and off to the races with Blaugust.  It isn’t too late to join in, but we have officially started.

Blaugust time is coming to town…

Of course, now that we have started, the question is “What now?”

Often times, when it comes to Blaugust, I have a plan of sorts, a sketch of posts for the month, that I know will get me through the 31 days with a post a day.  I used to be able to build up some structure around a few regular monthly posts.  If you click on the Blaugust tag at the bottom of the post and scroll through past years, I have a couple of posts where I talk about those anchor topics I could rely on in any given month.

And I still have a few of those… there is always that month in review post to cap things off, and the EVE Online monthly economic report will give me a post.  But some of them, regular patch days or things like the now gone monthly SuperData Research chart, have fallen by the wayside.  Even a stalemated war in New Eden gave me something to write about weekly.  And it is August, I cannot even depend on patch notes from some companies.

So I sit here, looking at the calendar, wondering how to fill it with posts… like it is some new challenge as opposed to something I have done literally every month since April of 2020.  This is my 856 daily consecutive post.  And yet, I fret.  You might suspect it is just going to happen.  But I know that I didn’t get that many days in a row without a bit of planning.  So I look at the event calendar and consider how it can help me.

The Blaugust 2022 Calendar

I am sure I can come up with something related to the theme of each week.  Hell, this counts as a “Welcome to Blaugust” post in my book.  I am sure I can come up with some anecdote for “Introduce Yourself” week… or I can just take another run at that Nick Yee gamer motivation profile quiz again.  That is always good for a bit of self-reflection.

I have something in the drafts folder I’ve been meaning to finish up that I think will serve for “Creative Appreciation” week.

As for “Staying Motivated,” I am sure some reflection on how many posts I’ve managed to get in for the month will serve, how I came up with them and what I have setup for the balance of the month.

Finally, there is “Lessons Learned.”  After this many runs through Blaugust, will I have any new lessons to write about?  Or will I drag out my past philosophical reflections?  I am going to guess the latter.

Then we’ll be at the end of the month and that will be that.  Another Blaugust on the books.

So I am pretty sure I can fill out the calendar.  I have a couple of posts in the can for this week already and there are at least a few news items I expect to pop up… the Activision Blizzard financials, ongoing updates about Wrath of the Lich King Classic, and maybe even the war in EVE Online.  But one can never be sure, so I am always trying to fill in the blanks in the calendar.

But now I have one post down, so there are only 30 more to go.

For anybody interested in joining in on Blaugust, and as I said at the top of the post, it isn’t too late, the following links will bring you up to speed.

• Blaugust 2022 Informational Post
• Blaugust Media Kit
• Blaugchievements List
• Blaugust Prompt List
• Blaugust 2022 Sign-Up Form
• Blaugust Discord
• Blaugust 2022 Participant List

And, of course, this is my first chance to link out to the other participants in the event.  We have 56 60 63 65 67 blogs that have opted in so far.  There are some old familiar blogs on that list, but some new ones as well.  Take some time to visit these sites as we all begin our journey to the other end of August:

1. A Day in the Life of Flash
2. A Geek Girls Guide
3. A Missioneer in Eve
4. A Nerdy Fujo Cries
5. A Vueltas Por los Mundos
6. Ace Asunder
7. Alligators And Aneurysms
8. Aywrens Nook – Gaming and Geek Blog
9. Battle Stance
10. Beyond Tannhauser Gate
11. Bio Break
12. Blogging with Dragons
13. Book of Jen
14. Breakingwynd
15. Casual Aggro
16. Chasing Dings!
17. Cinder Says
18. Contains Moderate Peril
19. Cubic Creativity
20. Dice, Tokens, and Tulip
21. Digital Visceral
22. Dispatches from Darksyde
23. Dragons and Whimsy
24. Endgame Viable
25. Everwake
26. Everything is bad for you
27. FOB IV: A Blog
28. Frostilyte Writes
29. GamerLadyP – Gaming, Books and Musings of a Lady Gamer
30. Gaming Omnivore
31. Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming
32. Going Commando
33. Hundstrasse: Rambles About Games
34. I Have Touched the Sky
35. Indiecator
36. Inventory Full
37. Just Call Me Roybert
38. Kay Talks Games
39. Kaylriene
40. Knifesedge Blogs
41. Leaflocker
42. Ludo Llama
43. Mailvaltar – MMOs and other stuff
44. Many Welps
45. Meghan Plays Games
46. MMO Casual
47. Monsterladys Diary
48. Mutant Reviewers
49. Narratess
50. Nerd Girl Thoughts
51. Nerdy Bookahs
52. NomadicGamersEh
53. Overage-Gaming
54. Priest With a Cause
55. Shadowlands and getting back into the game
56. Shadowz Abstract Gaming
57. StarShadow
58. Tales of the Aggronaut
59. The Ancient Gaming Noob
60. The Friendly Necromancer
61. The Ghastly Gamer
62. The Last Chapter Guild
63. Time to Loot
64. Unidentified Signal Source
65. WelshFox on YouTube
66. Welshtroll – Point, Click, Repeat
67. Words Under My Name