Too Much Blogging, or Not Enough?

Journals Editor Joe asks, "How Many Blog Entries Do You Have?" Bea asks the question, too. Joe has 821 of them in his main blog since May 3, 2005. Bea has 424 since August 2, 2005.


Well, of course I had to find out how I stack up against those numbers, but for me it's not as simple as opening up the AOL page that gives the total, or even the Blogger dashboard. From March 2004 to November 2005, my main blog was Musings from Mâvarin; after that I moved over here to Outpost Mâvarin. And almost from the beginning I've had other blogs, too: Messages from Mâvarin for fiction, and my LiveJournal for memes and writing about writing. There's also a church news blog, a church arts blog, my test blog, my contributions to the Round Robin blog, and lesser things called blogs on social networking sites.


Here are the Blogger stats, excluding the test blog:

Outpost Mâvarin View Blog
574 Posts, last published on Apr 24, 2007

Messages from Mâvarin View Blog
140 Posts, last published on Apr 20, 2007

The Round Robin Photo Challenges View Blog
37 Posts, last published on Apr 18, 2007

Life at St. Michael and All Angels View Blog
191 Posts, last published on Apr 17, 2007

St. Michael & All Angels Arts View Blog
27 Posts, last published on Jul 25, 2006

But even that's not the whole story. The earliest Outpost entries are dupes of Musings ones, laboriously copied over when I thought I might quit AOL. The post-exodus Musings entries are mostly (but not all) cross-postings of what's on the Outpost. And there are cross-postings to Messages as well, of the 2004-2005 fiction that appeared elsewhere. Still, let's look at the stats I foolishly compiled for a couple of hours tonight:

Date	Musings (AOL)	Messages (Blogger)	Outpost (Blogger)	Inspirations (LiveJ)	All
Mar-04	13	0	3	0	16
Apr-04	19	0	8	0	27
May-04	15	0	0	0	15
Jun-04	14	12	0	7	33
Jul-04	26	2	1	5	34
Aug-04	46	3	1	9	59
Sep-04	42	6	0	14	62
Oct-04	36	5	1	12	54
Nov-04	39	5	1	4	49
Dec-04	58	4	4	5	71
2004 ttl	308	37	19	56	420
Jan-05	39	5	0	11	55
Feb-05	35	4	0	10	49
Mar-05	36	4	0	13	53
Apr-05	36	5	0	4	45
May-05	35	4	0	5	44
Jun-05	30	5	0	4	39
Jul-05	31	5	1	7	44
Aug-05	32	4	2	5	43
Sep-05	30	4	2	7	43
Oct-05	34	5	1	6	46
Nov-05	25	11	28	5	69
Dec-05	1	5	40	3	49
2005 ttl	364	61	74	80	579
Jan-06	0	4	32	3	39
Feb-06	0	4	27	4	35
Mar-06	0	4	32	5	41
Apr-06	0	5	30	2	37
May-06	0	4	31	3	38
Jun-06	0	4	30	3	37
Jul-06	0	2	31	2	35
Aug-06	3	1	31	3	38
Sep-06	6	5	30	1	42
Oct-06	6	3	31	1	41
Nov-06	0	0	31	1	32
Dec-06	0	0	30	1	31
2006 ttl	15	36	366	29	446
Jan-07	0	2	32	3	37
Feb-07	0	1	28	1	30
Mar-07	1	0	31	1	33
Apr-07	0	2	25	1	28
2007 ttl	1	5	116	6	128
					0
Grand ttls	688	139	575	171	1573

And yes, I also generated a line graph:

So what's the answer? In the time Joe has posted his 821 entries (I think some of them were posted by Editor Jeff, but no matter), I've done about 951 of them, including dupes, on my four main blogs. Since Bea started, I've done about 824.

If you check the chart, you'll see that I've actually slacked off in my blogging since my peak in November 2005. The decline is especially noticeable since I registered with Wikipedia in April 2006, but we'll skip lightly over that non-coincidence. The drop is mostly in my LJ, which is getting about one entry a month, and in Messages, in which I posted weekly for quite a while only to slack off in the middle of some of the later serials. I don't really care that much about the LiveJournal, but I hope to do better with Messages, as part of my overall commitment to getting more fiction writing in.

Meanwhile, I really need to finish up this numbers game, wash my hair and go to bed!

Karen