Blog Challenges Updates (NaBloPoMo16)

NOVEMBER FIRST, BITCHES!!

I am once again doing the NaBloPoMo thing, which is  basically 30 Days of Blogging. BlogHer, who hosts NaBloPoMo is planning to "do something a little different" for November. No idea what that's going to be about.

For this, DAY ONE, I shall regale you with the update of my blog- related challenges since June. Here’s the June update.

I really wanted to post more and do more connecting with other bloggy people, which I’ve absolutely done!

I’ve gotten 100 comments (GOAL!!) and gotten over 1000 followers on Twitter. TEEHHEEE!!

Total Blog Posts:

Goal (updated in June): 8 per month

Current Average: 11 per month

I’m so glad kept this goal reasonable! I would really like to get back to my two ideas for featured posts: Broadway to Books and Three on a Theme Thursdays.

Book Reviews:

Goal: 4 per month

Current Average: 3.3 per month… that’s so close!! Let’s round up!! LOL… My book reviews definitely go down when 1) I’m not loving the books I’ve been reading, and 2) my evenings get busier. I only did one in April, which was also my lost overall posting month.

I've done a few more reviews by authors’ requests, which I have mixed feelings about it.

Blog Tours

Goal: 4 for the year

Completed: 5

The last one was for:

 

Top Ten Tuesdays:

Goal: 1 per month

Current Average: 1 per month

Still loving this squishy goal that gives me all of the power and none of the pressure.

 Readathons:

Goal: 3 for the Year

DONE!!

Completed/ Planned

Bout of Books 16 – completed

Make Me Read – July 9^th

Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon – October 22

 Twitter Chats

I haven’t been tracking these, but I participate in at least one every two weeks. I really like #BHPChat  and #BBTC. Sometimes I just jump in on a chat if I see one going on. #BookTwitter is a pretty welcoming group of people!

I've been trying to spend more time reading other people's blogs. I joined the Commenting 365 Challenge which is going ok, I guess. Bleh.

Monetizing!

I made .86 in the last quarter through Riot Ad Network. Wow. Stop. It’s tew much.

Other Bloggy/Bookish Things

I hosted my first reading challenge. It was fun and a bit of a mess. Four twitter friends joined me for Clear a Shelf!I think I'm going to do it again in December. I'll come back with the link if I decide to.

Book Riot Live – Reader's Convention in November. See my recap post from last year’s inaugural event!  I'm taking badge ribbons to share this time!! I'll be one of the coolest nerds there!

NaBloPoMo 2016! How the Hell...

Last November was my first time participating in NaBloPoMo. I think I did pretty good, only missing one day of posting for the whole month (if you don't count the other days I missed, but did "make up" posts are). It really made me think of other things to post about, instead of only really posting book reviews.Here are some of my favorites:

How Twilight Zone is My Life 

If I Die Before Reading All These Books

I Give Money to Panhandlers

I've decided to challenge myself again. Here are the two bitmoji I think will represent the month, in this order.

 

Here is a list of possible prompts I might use to fill in for posts when I don’t know what else to write about. I found it several months ago and intended to do the 52 week challenge in earnest but never actually joined up. Here’s the original source post.  

Top Ten Tuesday- Favorite 2016 Releases

I don’t think I’ve read 10 books that were released in 2016…

June 21: Top Ten Favorite 2016 Releases So Far This Year (hosted by Broke and Bookish)

When I read the topic I thought I was totally screwed. I didn't think I had read 10 new releases this year.... but almost!

May 2016 - Recap Post

How many days past the beginning of the month is a “last month’s wrap up post” considered late?

Total Books Read: 22 (More than usual because of the reading challenges)

Total Blog Posts: 16

My favorite was the one I posted for Mental Health Awareness month. 

Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish People to Social Media Stalk

YAY! I'm pre- posting a Top Ten Tuesday! I can tell that this is the start of a whole new life of organization and planning for me... 

These top tens are hard for me because 10 things is a lot of things!! I'm going to shoot for 5 and see how it goes. I've decided to try and do one of these a month to take the pressure off of myself! 

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is (drum roll would be useless given the title of the post, huh? Drum roll, anyway, naysayer!): 

Top Ten Tuesday (Popped!) - Songs for 10 Must Reads

Wouldn't it be awesome if I could get my blog-stuff together enough to do a regular weekly theme thing? Oh, yeah. That would be awesome. Unlikely, but awesome... especially because I rarely like all the prompts on any of those things.

The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten Tuesday is a popular one that I have thought about jumping on board with. First, who can't relate to the blog name, amIRight? But also, all of the prompts are bookish, which I like better than random things about my grocery list or whatever. So... I'm going to give this week's a try... even though it's hard as hell. Here's the original prompt with the original embedded links.

"February 16: This week is all about music & books. We previously did books we'd give theme songs to so feel free to do that! Or 10 songs I wish that were books (check out my love songs I wish were books for an example of what I mean) -- Thanks to the couple people who suggested making this one an official topic. I don't know why I hadn't...I think I thought my post WAS for TTT in my head when I thought back to it."