Blaugust Got Me Out of My Cave

Participating in Blaugust this year got me out of my cave. I haven’t really written in quite some time, for a variety of reasons, but I wanted to push myself to start again this month. I din’t have a goal, at least not one that I said (or wrote) out loud. Knowing myself, deep down I wanted to write 31 posts, but I wasn’t going to pressure myself to do it. I’m already weighed down by a lot of other things. I didn’t want this to become one more thing. I had absolutely no plan coming into this. I didn’t even do any of the prompts, including the intro one, which I typically do and have done in the past. If you stumbled upon my blog during Blaugust, I’m sorry I didn’t properly introduce myself. I hope you got to know me some other way. I wrote every single post the day of. Sometimes I’d have to backdate (or back time?) a post when I was writing about something that happened that day because I didn’t have time to publish it. I didn’t plan ahead. I didn’t have drafts waiting to save me. I…