It’s the second to last day of the year, I’m still laying in bed as I type this, and I didn’t even know where an appropriate place was to start looking back on the year.

Then I recalled I had received an email from WordPress about my blogs year in review, so I dug that back out and looked it over. Something didn’t match up, so I looked at my stats through the app and cross checked against what was on the actual website. That email sucked because it was generated too early for a proper “year in review”.

Anyways, on to what I actually accomplished for myself through the blog.

• 1,440 views (greater than all previous years combined!)
• 80 posts
• Wednesdays are my best days
• Best time is 10:00AM

I started my blog in late 2018 with the original intent of posting a couple of times a week or more, and building up from there. That obviously didn’t happen. I hit a mental block and felt like I was holding myself to too high of a standard starting out. Over the course of 2023 I had been constantly reminding myself of things like “nobody can read what you don’t write” and other mantras to try and psych myself up. Then I had a conversation with a friend that helped kind of nudge me in the right direction. So I started answering the daily writing prompts that show up in the Jetpack app. All of those 80 posts are from the last three months and nearly all are from those writing prompts. I just needed to get into the habit of posting regardless of the content, regardless of the length or word count, and ignoring that small voice of self-doubt. I just needed to do it.

Of those 1,440 views only 141 precede when I started writing again this year. That means roughly 1,299 views from days with newly written posts (I’m not going to nitpick how many views in the month of October were prior to starting again.)

Not sure why Wednesday is my best day of the week, but I know that 10:00AM is probably because I set a goal for myself to have my daily post written around that time. Usually, I had found time earlier in the morning to write, and initially I was thinking I would schedule my posts for 10:00AM to try and get that consistency but I said screw it and just dove in head first every day.

So that’s the blogs year in review. On a personal level outside of the blog? I guess I wasn’t really keeping track. I know Spotify and Steam did, which is always neat to look over. I’ll toss some screenshots of those below.

I’m not sure what else I could throw out to recap my year. The blog stats are what I was mostly concerned with anyways. For all of you that do read my blog, I appreciate it, and I hope to keep up with posting regularly for the foreseeable future!