Sherri Cornelius

There’s been a discussion over on Darcsfalcon’s blog which started about leaving behind toxic family members, and then morphed into personal boundaries and expectations. Last night I was all gung-ho about continuing the discussion here on my blog, but the moment has passed. I’m not feeling particularly analytical or reflective today, but if you’re interested in these topics, go on over to Fal’s place and add your two cents.

So today is the last day of NaBloPoMo in the month of July. It was an interesting exercise, and I’m absolutely amazed that I managed to come up with something to talk about every day. Here are some interesting tidbits I’ve come away with.

• It’s funny how the little throw-away posts can garner the most discussion. I guess when I touch on a subject and throw it out there, it generates more thought than if I impose my ideas on my readers.
• I simply don’t have any interest in creating long, article-style posts. That’s not what this blog is about, and it’s not what my readers expect. I feel like those blogs are more legitimate than mine, but I don’t know where I got that idea. The blog is not the only place I limit myself by arbitrary “shoulds”, so hopefully I can take that lesson and apply it to other areas.
• Posting 31 days in a row did little for my daily hit count. The same posts get all the search engine traffic, I don’t think I picked up any new regulars, and my old regulars visited only slightly more often, as far as I can tell.

Those little tidbits add up to one thing: I can relax and have fun on my blog. Duh.

Thanks for hanging around for my experiment. Now I’m taking off the month of August!! Not really.

Funny that I declared on July 1st I would be writing a post every day, only to find out that this is NaBloPoMo! What is up with that? I hadn’t heard it mentioned even once that I remember. I’m taking it as a sign that a post a day will be good for me.

I have narrowed it down to two templates on the new blog. One is colorful and bold (the one on the blog right now) and the other is simple and light and elegant (the one pictured here, only with double sidebars and a daisy header). I like the layout of the simple one, but the bold one fits my personality better. And since I am not in code mode, I really don’t want to mess with massive changes to one or the other.

I’ve been unusually busy lately, what with writing this 20-pg synopsis, editing for Eternal Press, fixing my mom’s computers, and now changing up the blog. Trying to stay off the social media, letting Twitter and email be my connections. Facebook is the devil, with its quizzes and flair and games and such, so I’ve limited that to once a day. Hopefully it’ll be only another week or so until I knock out these projects and can breathe a bit easier.