With October almost at its end, I wanted to take a quick inventory of how I'm doing compared to previous years as far as posts I have published. Earlier today, I captured the statistics below. My analysis of the statistics is that there are 64 days between today and 1/1/2020. To publish the same number of posts in 2019 as I did in 2018, I need to publish 457 posts, which comes out to 7.140625 posts / day. Considering that I will likely not publish anything on 11/25/2019 and likely not publish anything on 12/25/2019 (Christmas), it really is 457/62 days, which is 7.370967741935484 posts / day. Rounding up to 8 would give me 496 posts, which would give me 1896 for the year, 39 above my 2018 total. No matter if it's 7.140625 posts / day or 7.370967741935484 posts / day, the end result is that I need to keep up with this blog. In fact, I will likely create a tab in an Excel file that will break down exactly how I will be able to either equal or exceed my 2018 total. When I published 270 posts in 2009, it took until 2013 before I published that many posts again. Then, in 2015, I published 69 fewer posts than I did in 2014. Comparing 2016 to 2017, I increased 143 posts.
Comparing 2017 to 2018, I increased 350 posts.
If I want to increase the average of the above period, I would need to increase my 2019 number by 247, which makes my new goal for 2019 the following:
2104
To do that, I would need to publish 11.35483870967742 posts each day for the next 62 days.
While I want to continue to increase published posts each year until I no longer write this blog, I also refuse to publish posts when I have nothing to say, which makes sense. How about I just write what I want, when I want, and do that.
No comments:
Post a Comment