Posts: State of the Blog

End Beginning of the month (mostly) posts about writing & blogging.

2026

[Elsewhere On The Internet, A Round Up] February, informal SOTB
[Pondering Backstory, State of the Blog] January, How much backstory should I include?

2025

skipped [Extended November Writing Challenge Part 1, Fiction Fragments] December, finished fiction project. Was planning a belated STOB to discuss the relationship of the blog to the fiction project, but no. [What’s In A Name, Fiction Fragment] Short version. Initially, project entries were not intended as blog posts. Became posts when I didn’t hate the results.
[Retroactive Changes, State of the Blog] November, Do I make changes in old posts?
[More Thinking About Posts] October, Why do I keep chugging along?
[Thinking About Posts] September, two types of posts
[New Watermarks] August
[Sending A Message To The Future] July, posting decades from now
[Stat Spike] June, 2nd Sat
skipped [Custom Couture, Making My Derby Day Helmet Hat] May, class break/anniversary post
skipped [The City In Five, Poetry Adjacent] April, class post
skipped [Taking a Break with a Cat Pause] March, busy (a touch overwhelmed) with house & work, need to remind self that blogging is for enjoy not for stress.
[Alt Text, State of the Blog] February
[Considering Content, State of the Blog] January

2024

[An Inexplicable Offer, State of the Blog] December
[What Is Personal Narrative, Thoughts After A Class] A section on generating blog posts.
skipped [What Is The Story Of Your Name? Personal Narrative Assignment #1, Class #2] October for class post
skipped [Felines of the Feed Store, Cat Pause ] September
[Contact Page History, State of the Blog] August
skipped [How To Film A Road Trip Movie] & [Muse and the Spider Movie Part 1] June & July. Staying with fiction on Saturdays, unless I have something specific to say about the blog … later, or not.
[Adjusting The Line Up, State of the Blog] May
skipped [Blog As Literary Device, A Consideration of Fiction Techniques] April
[What’s With All The Fantasy Posts? State of the Blog] March
[Back on Social Media, State of the Blog] February
[To Recap Or Not To Recap, State of the Blog] January

2023

[Streak, State of the Blog] December
“State of the Blog. Ticking along. Nothing profound to say.”[Book Blogs] November
[Genealogy Linkfest, Family On The Blog] October
skipped [Nature Will Prevail, Sidewalk Cracks] September
[Almost, State of the Blog] August
skipped [Remixing The Other, State of the Blog] July
skipped [A Day For Mnemonic Devices, Words] June
[A Quick Note, State of the Blog] May
skipped [Edible Book] April
[Choosing My Words, State of the Blog] March
[Stall Rest Chronicles 4 Feb, with Brief Thoughts On The Temporary Format] February
[State of the Subtitles, State of the Blog] January

2022

[What Is Now, State of the Blog] December
skipped [Recent Reads, Mostly Memoir] November
[How Other People Ride, Blog Hop Invitation, State of the Blog] October
[State of the Blog, Photo Theory and Photo Class Recap] September
[State of The Blog, State of the Comments] August
[Using Your Name, State Of The Blog] July
[Stories I’d Like To Hear, 10 Blog Hop Ideas, State Of The Blog] June
[Exploring The Rabbit Hole] May, moving away from talking just about my blog to talking about blogging in general … or I was, looks like a went back to talking my own blog.
[Open Call For Vicarious Travel] April
[State Of The Blog, 36 Days Of Type, Project Intro] March
[State of the Blog, Cross Platform Commenting, Briefly, With Guest Photos] February
[State of the Blog, Thoughts On Fiction] January

2021

[The Difficulty of Writing the Mundane, State of the Blog] December
Logistics. STOB moved to from last Saturday to first. Thus, State of the Fitness on Friday can cover the previous month. Therefore December post in place of post for the end of November.
[State of the Blog, Brevity] October
[State of the Blog, Announcing A New Feature, As Soon As I Think Of It] September
[State of the Blog, Weekly Art] August
skipped [Vicarious Travel, Gutenberg Bible at the NYPL] July
[State of the Blog, Blanket Apology For My Comment Response] June
[State Of The Blog, I Didn’t Write This Post, Fiction] May
[State of the Blog, Change] April
[State of the Blog, Open Mike Invitation] March
[State Of The Blog: Shifting The Schedule] February
[State of the Blog, In Maps] January

2020

skipped, holiday. [A Card For You, Halloween 2020]
[State of the Blog, Weekends NOT off] September
[State Of The Blog: Weekends Completely Off] August
[State of the Blog, Awareness of the Outside World, Taking a Poll on a New Feature] July
skipped to concentrate on fiction, or at least try to. [Belly Up To The Bar, Fiction Fragment] June
[Blogging In A Time Of Crisis] May
[State of the Blog, This is a Horse Blog, What’s With All The Off-Topic Fiction?] April
[State of the Blog, Blogging My Life Versus Living It] March
[State of the Blog, Watermarks Theory] February
skipped [Have You Read This? Happy Lunar New Year!] January

2019

[State Of The Blog, Fun With Sorting] December, subheads
skipped. Decided not to talk about blogging for a while. I go back and forth on the concept. [FYI, Another Writing Contest] November, [Analyzing The Alternatives] October
[State of the Blog, The Song of Me] September
[State of the Blog, Oops] August
[State Of The Blog, The Lure Of Being Definitive] July
skipped. Away from blog. [A Spirited Horse, Slane, Ireland, Guest Photos] June.
[State of the Blog: A Marketing Haiku] May, early. Eom [Inklings].
skipped while experimenting with concepts for Saturday. [750 Words, A Place To Write] Apr, [Say What? Transitions] Mar, [Lingering Laments, A Heath Update] Feb
[State of the Blog: Call for Ideas] January

2018

[Return to the Sea … of Statistics, State of the Blog 2018] December
[State Of The Blog, Introduction] September
[State of the Blog: In Which I Consider Responsibility to the Reader] February

2017

[State of the Blog: A Sea of Statistics] December
[State of the Blog: Narrative Arc] November
[10 Tips To Help You #bloglikecrazy] November extra
[State of the Blog: Pondering Twitter] October
September lost in the flurry of ICDE posts [Show Report]. Last Saturday post [Laugh or Cry].
[State of the Blog: Belated Acknowledgement] August
[State of the Blog: Avoiding Social Media] July
[State of the Blog: Status Haiku] June
[State of the Blog: Another Aborted Twitter Adventure] May
[Self-Improvement] April
[State of the Blog: Going Digital] March
[State of the Blog: Borrowed Fame] February
[State of the Blog: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One] January

2016

[Looking Back, State of the Blog 2016 December
November – nothing to say. [Clydesdale Humor]
October – skipped for Nationals. [Happy Rubber Ducky Day 2016]
[State of the Blog: Title Question] September
[State of The Blog: Life with a Blogger] August
[State of the Blog, Weekends Off] July
[State of the Blog: Instagram Hiatus] June
[State of the Blog: The Daily Object] May
[State of the Blog: TYFR] April
[State of the Blog: Reading Blogs] March
[State of the Blog: Subtitle History] February
[State of the Blog: Comment Policy] January

2015

[State of the Blog: Y’all Connect] June
[State of the Blog: A Matter of Record] April
[State of the Blog: What I Want From My Blog] March
[State of the Blog: Lightning in a Bottle] February
[Blogging Goals, Or Not] mid-January

2014

No end of December post, [12 Days] instead
[Quotes on Writing and Blogging] November
[State of the Blog: Energy Usage] October
[Sine Die … Or Not] September
[Whither?] Blog prospects at end of post, but mostly New Horse!
Ditto July for Rocking S. Yay horse shows!
June skipped in a blizzard of Show Reports from Northeast GA
[State of the Blog: This & That] May
[Ze State of Ze Blog] April
[Reader Requests?] March
[Off Topic: Yay or Nay?]/[Poll Results] & [Future Planning] February
[Writing For A New Audience] January
[2013 In Review]
[Presents All Around] January for December 2013

2013

[Chasing Perfection] November
[Attitude Check] October
[I’m Baaaaaack … With Camera] September
[Hiatus] August
[At Least I Got A Blog Post Out Of It] June
[New Project] May
[The Nature of Milestones: Nearing 500] April
[End of the Month Commentary: Identity] March
[Social Media Footprint] February
[End of the Month Commentary – Blogs] January

2012

[End of the Month Commentary – By the Numbers] December 31
[Where Do We Go From Here?] December 20 for end of year one
[Literary Midwives] November 28 & [Foto Friday: Equine Photo Blogging] November 30
[NaBloPoMo – Midpoint Review] November 15
[Blogging Interjection] October 16
[Vox Clamantis in Deserto] September 30
[There Is No Control-Z for Reality] August 30 for July & Aug
[Cinder-blogging-ella] June 30
[Permanence] May 31
[Living Virtually] April 30
[Blogging Influences] March 31
[Numbers Game] March 9 for February
[Life As a First Draft] Jan 31