Today I needed to speak briefly about what’s going on behind the scenes over right here on this weblog. My e-mail inbox is filling up and I’ve no clue the way to take care of it… other than making a put up about it, I suppose. Hence, I figured I’d handle the scarcity of evaluations by explaining what I plan by way of evaluations throughout the upcoming month of Blaugust.

Huzzah, it’s Blaugust Season!

So, as talked about beforehand, I plan on actually pushing myself this time round by publishing 31 evaluations in 31 days in addition to another posts. Hence, I’m at the moment compiling a schedule of types for all of the evaluations and I’m making an attempt to work out once I’ll get to play these video games.

A variety of them have been sitting in my mailbox for fairly some time and whereas I’ve performed a few of them, I haven’t actually labored on any of the drafts, therefore resulting in me needing to replay quite a lot of them.

At the identical time, I’m additionally engaged on a “Blaugust Participant Appreciation Post” just like the final one I made… principally as a result of the final one took quite a lot of time to plan and work and I don’t need to undergo writing and modifying that in someday.

Limit-Testing, Reviews and Improvements!

The purpose is to limit-test what number of evaluations I can get out in a single month… or per week… or two weeks… after which after August, I might be able to write extra evaluations once more. For the previous couple of weeks/months, I haven’t actually been capable of dish out as many evaluations as I needed, in any case.

Also, I need to preserve my paragraph size in test all through August. My paragraphs are too lengthy, in any case.

The paragraph size shall be a difficulty right here, although, since my fashion in evaluations is normally to put in writing about one subject per paragraph… generally one subject in two paragraphs… however I don’t normally cut up up paragraphs as a lot as I’ve carried out currently. It takes time to get used to.

At the identical time, all of the evaluations that I do learn characteristic lengthy paragraphs, too, so I don’t actually have a tenet of types that I might observe. I can’t simply get impressed by another person. It’s a little bit of a wrestle to adapt to this world of “7+ lines is too much in web-writing”.

It’s an entire new world.

I additionally wanna experiment with headings… they make posts extra accessible and I’m not fairly positive the way to precisely use them successfully. Maybe I’ll do this factor the place I quote myself saying one thing within the following paragraphs and put that up as a header… however that feels a bit odd, for my part. Opinions on this, specifically, are greater than welcome!

Time Management

More importantly, although, I wanna see if I can minimize down the time it takes for me to put in writing up a evaluation.

Typically, I formulate my ideas whereas taking part in a sport. I don’t normally take many notes… Sometimes I do… Sometimes I don’t. It actually will depend on the sport and whether or not or not I assumed up a sentence that sounds “cool”.

Some evaluations take about 40~60 minutes to put in writing. Others take longer. Then I take a break and are available again to it, modifying the entire thing. Often, I find yourself rewriting entire sections and altering out sections fully relying on the tone. That’s one thing I discussed briefly in my put up on “reviews and bias”.

I kind fairly quick, so in principle, I might minimize down the time it takes for me to put in writing one thing if I have been to take extra notes or if I have been to put in writing it instantly after taking part in.

Editing takes some time as a result of I would like sufficient time between the preliminary write-up and the precise modifying course of… however then it’s smooth-sailing, just about.

Branching Out… somewhat?

On high of that, I need to experiment with reviewing a number of different mangas that I’ve been studying. Even if I learn all kinds of manga, I kinda solely lined darkish and gritty ones on right here… possibly that’s simply my area of interest?

Anyhow, I figured I ought to possibly write one other two or three evaluations on manga, particularly with how well-liked my evaluation on Girl by the Sea has develop into. I imply, even my newest evaluation on RuriDragon is doing fairly properly for a evaluation.

Given that I don’t earn cash from this weblog, although, metrics aren’t clearly the factor that drives me or something… It’s simply that it makes me kinda blissful once I see a put up do properly that I put effort into – which isn’t one thing I technically have to justify myself for however I figured I’d point out it.

DnD/PnP One-Shots with different Blaugustans!

Apart from that, I’m planning on doing a number of DnD One-Shots with folks on the Blaugust discord however I’ve no clue what to do in regards to the time zones and dates. I feel it is perhaps finest for me to put in writing a separate put up for folks to join it and be part of the Blaugust discord & Blaugust occasion. I really feel like that in all probability might work out fairly properly.

Conclusion

All in all, these are kinda the issues I’m at the moment interested by. I gotta schedule posts to have a while to put in writing different posts… I additionally gotta work out the small print relating to the evaluations and whatnot. On high of that, examination season isn’t giving me an excessive amount of area IRL both… So, it’s a bit a lot in the mean time but when it turns into “too much”, I’ll make sure that to deal with myself. Probably!

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