At one point of time, I wondered why I should blog. I have had many doubts about how effective this would be for me considering the fact that there is a large number of people blogging. I rarely had any Indian readers at the earlier times, and most of my visitors were from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. If you look at my blogs as of now, the situation has changed and on this blog as well as on Movies of the Soul, the most visiting people are from India itself and same is the case of the comments – not that many comments from the people currently living in my home state of Kerala though.
So a wonderful run and a great cycle for this particular blog ends on this day with this blog post. There was a set of events which were set in motion on December tenth, last year. I had decided to start the cycle just a little bit earlier, but something happened and so it was delayed to December tenth, 2014. I am not feeling that well today, but this cycle post had to come on this day. There is something special on this day because I started blogging continuously since last December tenth, and there has been never even one day without a post on this blog for these last 365 days.
I have posted a total of 373 posts in these 365 days on this blog and there were 84 posts on Movies of the Soul, with 12 posts on The Divine Epic. Except for one, the rest of the sixteen contests prizes were all won during this period of time, and most of the campaigns also came during this time. The nominations for all Blog Awards happened during this season too with a total of 17. 183 out of 195 Top Posts on IndiBlogger came during this time, and all 31 of the BlogAdda WOW Posts came during these 365 days. It is also the season with the most visits for not only thing blog, but also for Movies of the Soul and The Divine Epic.
The most comments on these three blogs also happened during these days, and the same is the case of most likes as well as the social media sharing. This blog made sure that I thought about coming up with new ideas. The same is the reason why I am so determined to finish this cycle despite not feeling well with fever. I have posted on this blog from not just here; I have posted from Delhi, Trivandrum, Trichur, Kollam or whichever city where I was staying at that time. At least one post was a necessary thing, and sometimes I kept extra posts ready in case there is the need.
I wrote many exams in between, but still managed to come with a new post every day – I found it more as a need. It never mattered if I was not that well, and the absence of electricity was no trouble either. I sometimes went to some other place to post a new one and at other times I came up with something in the very last moment. I have participated in almost all contests which I cam across, and the missed ones usually about coming up with a video or writing about married life or babies. Still, I came up with two posts related to babies, and that worked for some happy hours.
I have come up with almost all topics possible for me – yes, fashion and related things are impossible for me. I have posted about movies, fiction, sports, games, television series, history and all which have came into my mind at times. I liked some of the posts and I didn’t care that much about the others, but I still wrote something in every case. I felt that if I stopped on a day, I might just stop writing at all. Continuous writing was necessary, because I wanted to keep going at something or the other.
This is a milestone day for me, and maybe I can choose to slow down things a bit as of now. I don’t really want to slow down as of now, and I wish to continue to keep writing until I have a job. I wish that the ideas keep coming easily and there will also be more contests on which I can write on. It doesn’t really matter if I win or not, but what bothers me is not to try – I am still to win something huge, even though the post The Vision of a Lost Bat for the India Today Conclave is quite the win which I love more than anything else. I will hope to keep writing, and if someone don’t accept my resume in this birth, you will see a lot my writing till death 😀
***The images used in this blog post are from the Official Facebook Page of the movie, Hotel Transylvania.
TeNy
Congratulations Teny. Needless to say its a very constructive habit that you’ve inculcated. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 I hope this habit works for me in the long run too 🙂
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It should 🙂
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fabulous work Teny… congratulations and keep it up 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 🙂
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Heartiest congratulations Teny. That regular count is massive and worth accolades 🙂
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Thank you! I wish the count goes on 🙂
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I’m new to your blog, so I hope a late comment makes sense. Can I just say it’s refreshing to find a blog that took up these blogging challenges or daily post agendas without posting content that’s unoriginal or even substandard. Because that’s what I’ve seen 99% on the internet, and you have done a great job I feel 😀
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Thank you 🙂
Always, it is good to have a comment, a little late – you remember what you were doing those days 🙂
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I started blogging towards the end of Dec 2015 🙂
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And you are going well 🙂
I never had the confidence to go on with blogging from the beginning. With every new chapter of my life, I used to begin a blog and delete a few older ones. Finally managed to stick with two.
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Thankyou, I hope so. Why a new blog for every new chapter? More curiously, why delete older ones with a new one? 🙂
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I had the feeling that they just weren’t good enough. But in the last few years, I have let them stay. It feels good to look back too, nowadays.
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This blog is great. You have put in tons of work, I can see. Congrats anyway, and I wish you many more milestones and chapters 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
Wishing you the same 🙂
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