Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt today calls for us to use “post” as a word, or find a word that uses it as a prefix. As a blogger, when I hear the word “post,” I think about something I’ve been doing three to five times a day lately: writing posts.
My very first post on this blog was published sixteen months and one day ago, on May 14, 2017. It was one of seven posts I published in that first month. 
The post was intended to introduce me and my new blog.
In that post I wrote, “I describe myself as a logical, rational, and reasonable person. I am not ruled by emotions but by facts, observations, and evidence.”
That first post received one “like” and no comments. Since that first post, I have published 1,638 additional posts, including this one. That averages out to just over 100 posts per month since I started this blog and 160 a month since I began posting my daily one-word prompt, FOWC With Fandango, in June.
What is even more amazing, to me, anyway, is that my 1,639 posts contain more than 393,000 words! That’s like having written six 65,000 word novels in 16 months!
By way of contrast, in my previous blog, which was live from July 6, 2009 until April 10, 2015, I wrote only 907 posts, more than 60% of which we’re written in 2014 and the first 3 1/2 months of 2015. Between 2009 and 2013, I averaged around 70 posts per year, or fewer than six posts per month.
The other interesting thing is that my word count per post in that previous blog averaged around 675. In my current blog, my average word count is only about 240.
Anyway, unless you’re me, and I know for a fact that you are not, you no doubt find this stream of consciousness post to be of little interest. Therefore, I’m going to end this post now so that you can get on with the rest of your day.
Enjoy your Saturday.
This, That, and the Other 
That’s some serious throughput! Kudos.
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Thanks. I wonder, sometimes, if I can keep it up…if I should keep it up.
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Do or not do: there is no “should.” : )
If the well hasn’t run dry, keep writing.
If it doesn’t adversely affect your life, keep blogging.
I especially like your short fiction. You have the skills.
I say keep it up, especially if it brings joy to you or others.
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Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.
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🙂 Well, Fandango, you seem to have a very good thing going here.
Your WordPress blog is a lovely one, my friend.
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Thank you, Renard.
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I realize that I am not you, but I did find your post extremely interesting, especially the part about the word count, since I tend to write long posts.
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So what’s common in majority of your posts besides that you penned them down?
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Words and images.
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My comments, ha! Got you good Sensei…
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I’m always fascinated by other bloggers’ breakdowns. It’s interesting to me how some folks decide to post once a week, others once a day, others with no system at all. I hope you’re enjoying what you’re doing now!
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It’s something about retirement, you know? We just have a LOT to say and this is where we say it.
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That’s true!
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I am interested. Is your prior blog still around in an inactive status or completely closed now?
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It’s dead and gone. When I decided to take a hiatus from blogging, I deleted everything.
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Any regrets? Being a pack rat, I save everything. Delete
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I did export all the posts into text files, so I have them if I ever want to read them, but the blog itself was deleted.
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You have kept very close tabs on yourself with such a detailed .mathematical breakdown . Are you glad you did not write those six novels ? For my part I just drift as the fancy takes me with a comment here and a comment there.
Words written last a bit longer than words spoken but they all are loaded in the huge ocean of language.
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I wonder in this age of electronic media how long my words will actually last. I know they will always be out there in cyberspace, but will anyone still be around to read them?
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I have often heard that thought expressed in another form :
When I’m long dead and turned to dust the atoms and molecules that made up me are still around. Some romantics like the thought of fertilizing a rose bush.
Strict physicists will shrug their wise shoulders and say matter cannot be created or destroyed.
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It’s good that you’ve kept it up. I’ve had previous blogs too, but eventually posting became a chore – I was really manufacturing things to publish. There’s nothing worse than finding an interesting-looking blog, and seeing that the last post was a year ago. It feels easier for me this time around – perhaps because I’m blogging for different reasons? Perhaps because I *have* reasons? And the number of posts/month. I can’t remember how many people interacted with me, but I could probably count them on one hand. I guess that must spur you on, knwing that people want to read what you have to say. Take that as a compliment!
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Thanks. I do think a lot of my traffic comes from my prompts, particularly my FOWC daily prompt, more than from my posts with original writing.
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*and the number of posts per month bears this out. I’m posting more frequently these days rather than less.*
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