With Blaugust solely being about ten days away, I wished to handle my objectives and different issues!

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For starters, I’ve been running a blog each day for fairly some time and that lead me to attempt to problem myself additional throughout Blaugust by doing one thing “a little extra” simply to limit-test myself.

At one level, I did publish greater than as soon as per day however I can’t appear to seek out it in my stats, weirdly, so I’m second-guessing my reminiscence… Anyhow, I attempted out having a schedule of types for posts final time and lowkey failed at that resulting from a number of causes. This time round, I wanna preserve it easy: Post as many opinions as doable.

I haven’t actually written any opinions shortly – principally due to an absence of time and motivation. I wanna change that and kinda “force” myself to do it. I imply, I get pleasure from writing opinions however the quantity of effort and time wanted per evaluation is… Yeah.

Honestly, the backlog of video games that want opinions is there and I must work on it. At the identical time, there’s #SimplyOneP.c and stuff as nicely, so we’d make progress in direction of that aim of enjoying/writing about 100 and even 120 Indie Games.

I feel it’d be fairly rad to write down 31 opinions in August though I doubt that it’d be doable for me. It would take so much out of me to play a recreation for X quantity of hours and to then sit down and write a evaluation for one more hour or so earlier than finally taking a break, enhancing the publish in query, after which taking good care of the format and screenshots.

Speaking of format, I additionally wanna attempt to preserve paragraphs quick and readable. As talked about beforehand, my paragraphs are too lengthy. Recently, I bought some suggestions on how I’ve been in a position to enhance on it already. I took the recommendation and suggestions I bought to coronary heart and figured I’d learn up on a bunch of sources that speak concerning the science behind paragraph size.

For essentially the most half, nonetheless, it’s simply me making an attempt to not squeeze twenty sentences into one paragraph. Some of them get kinda lengthy however I attempt to not have too many four-line paragraphs in a row if that is smart.

— and it really works!

I imply, I suppose that works? For now not less than. I’ll need to work extra on this and that’s one other aim for Blaugust. Work on a option to preserve evaluation paragraphs considerably quick… with out it feeling “odd” if that is smart. I don’t know the best way to describe it however with opinions, I’m nonetheless very old fashioned. The opinions I learn have typically very prolonged paragraphs, so I’ll need to experiment somewhat all through this month… and with probably 31 take a look at topics, I ought to be capable to do exactly that fairly nicely, I reckon!

Another factor I’m not too positive about is whether or not or not I’ll write posts on demos. I suppose my “First Impressions” posts are basically smaller opinions, so I don’t suppose it will make an excessive amount of of a distinction. I consider that I may probably attempt to go a bit above and past by posting twice per day… from time to time.

But once more, that is all about limit-testing and seeing how a lot I can push myself to write down much more Indie-related content material. I’ll most likely swap issues up infrequently to speak about manga and anime that I actually like. I really feel as if that might work for my morale. Talking an excessive amount of about video games tires me out and therefore, switching issues up is fairly necessary to me.

So, uh, to sum all of it up, for 2022’s Blaugust, I wish to write as many opinions as doable + a number of further posts. The necessary bit is to be constant in high quality and to check my limits by doing so. On prime of that, I wish to take note of my paragraphs’ lengths and attempt to preserve posts readable by normie requirements. I’m the odd one in spite of everything, haha.

That apart, although, I additionally wish to take part within the weekly prompts and speak about different issues, so I’ll go for the occasional second publish of the day on prime of the each day posts… if time permits. I’ve exams to fret about, too, in spite of everything. At the top of August, the GamesCom is occurring as nicely, although, so there could also be a number of posts with interviews occurring by then as nicely. Depending on how a lot I get to arrange beforehand, we might get to these interview posts so much later… or it’s only a second publish of the day. I’m trying ahead to it.

Oh, after which there’s the neighborhood facet as nicely. I wished to host a DnD One-Shot sooner or later throughout the “Getting To Know You” Week… and I additionally wish to learn loads of posts… and I additionally wish to write about different folks’s blogs and speak about posts I loved studying – once more… if time permits it. Exams and stuff take precedence above every little thing, in spite of everything.

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