My exchange with Sheri Edwards of the What Else blog about our mutual love of crocheting and how we learned was featured as part of Edublog’s round up for week two of the #blogging28 challenge. While I basked in the glory, I also forgot to blog yesterday.

Have I already run out of things to write about? No…but I have moved further into the new year with its work demands and I haven’t quite gotten the habit in place yet. I have thought about potential topics but not made any notes so they die on the vine, as it were. I could expand on the twitter conversation I had with a few folks about our process:

I like that perspective: ‘somewhere between brain dump and final manuscript’. You see it as ‘low stakes’ then, even though there is an audience?

— khollow (@khollow) January 11, 2019

I hope this didn’t sound flippant. I take my audience seriously but as I went on to share on Twitter:

I do. I want to be able to think out loud in the midst of community. I draft and edit but give myself permission to publish something unpolished.

— Karen Richardson (@witchyrichy) January 12, 2019

The #blogging28 challenge allows time for posts to percolate by suggesting doing one blog post each week. And, by encouraging participants to comment on others’ blogs, connections are made that can lead from comments to full blown posts in the same way these Twitter posts led to this post.

I think I am behind on commenting on blog posts and want to explore some new writers. The Edublogs week two round up has a list of participants at the end of the update.