Yeah it’s a stupid word, I didn’t make it up!
Sandra posted yesterday that she is looking to blog more consistently and that she has joined this new WordPress thing called Bloganuary. And yes, she already pointed out that Bloguary would have been a better choice for the name, but maybe that already existed somewhere and the WordPress people wanted to avoid it? Like Blogmas is already a thing so maybe Bloguary is too? I don’t know!
Here is what the email they sent me says:
Welcome to our first ever Bloganuary!
Our goal is to start a fun challenge to help jump start your blogging habits in the new year while connecting you with other great bloggers from around the world. It’s going to be a lot of fun.
What to expect
Each and every day during the month of January, we’ll post a prompt to our community site, as well as sending it out via email. The prompts will either be a question or a directive, helping to serve as inspiration for your blog content that day. Once you’re ready to publish your blog post, make sure to add a bloganuary tag. Our team will be looking for participant posts to highlight and share across the Reader, our social media channels, and the community site.
Take the opportunity to connect with other bloggers like you. All Bloganuary participants will receive the same daily prompt, but will be sharing their own ideas, stories, and experiences. We encourage everyone to use this as an opportunity to connect with other bloggers, discuss prompts, share your posts, and build your own community. The easiest place to connect with other participants is on our community site, so feel free to join at any time.
Anyway, it seemed like a good idea because I also would like to blog more consistently. I have been going for almost 80 days straight now, and while that doesn’t really seem like a lot of days, it’s been since Thanksgiving and that was when I finally burnt out so it’s actually a really impressive thing for me.
And I think that doing this will also help me to branch out and meet new bloggers and maybe expand my blogging community. Which I have honestly been sucking at lately.
If you also want to join along, click here to sign up.
Thanks for the idea Sanrda! And I can’t wait to see the prompts and see what I will write!
No Love for Fatties 
I’m doing Just Jot January this year but I’ll check out Bloganuary too! Maybe I can combine both challenges.
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Oh goodness! You have a challenge for every month lol
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I missed blogmas this year and had wondered if there was any month-long blogging “challenge” before the A-Z event in April.
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Oh I’m sure there are tons!! None that I know of haha but I’m more than happy to share this one 🙂 I gotta considee my A-Z topic for this year soon…
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I have a couple ideas for the next A-Z challenge. For now I am excited to see what this bloganuary consists of. I joined and blogged about it.
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That’s awesome! I hope its an interesting challenge! Haha I know for sure I won’t be doing every single prompt, I have other weekly posts I participate in, but it will help for the other days
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Am I doing something wrong? I followed the link and signed up… but never got an email from WordPress. I don’t think WordPress likes me.
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Never mind… I went through and signed up again. Got the email this time. Please to ignore previous comment 🙂
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Haha the same thing happened to me! Glad you signed up!!
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This happened with me too!
I signed up for the second time and that’s when I got the email but I’m still not receiving the prompts
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I didn’t get today’s prompt in email. Just glad I saw it on another blog I’m following.
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Oh no! Were you logged into the browser when you signed up? I clicked it and then didn’t get the email, so I signed in again and clicked again and it worked
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I don’t know what the deal is. I got the initial email but it went to the Social folder in my Gmail. Everything from WordPress goes in there, which is fine. But I still haven’t received anything about today’s prompt. But it’s all right… I can keep doing like I did today and just wait for someone else to post it.
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Hmms okies that is so weird! If you ever need the prompt let me know and I’ll pass it along 😉
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I got my second prompt a couple of minutes back. Maybe check your mailbox again?
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Happy New Year gigglingfattie.
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Same to you!
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I know the name is so awkward lol
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Haha! It really is!
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Too late for me to join in, but I will take note of the questions/topics and will do it weekly on my blog instead 🙂
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Never too late!!!
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