Holidailies in Review
To be honest, I wasn’t sure how active I would be with Holidailies. I wanted an excuse, a reason to post at least one entry per day.
I had intended to stick strictly to entries featuring holiday content–memories, present-day musings and happenings, beliefs, perhaps a silly poem, picture, or video. I even had a list of one-word prompts that I’d brainfarted a couple of days before it started. I posted a couple entries as well before the actual event commenced, just to see how much I could wax moronic about past experiences.
The month has been very fun, though the holiday-themed entries petered out for the most part after the second week. My household is not as festive as others, and while we did get a tree and put up lights, such entries were few and far between. There were days I didn’t try especially hard to write a holiday-themed entry. Perhaps I should develop that discipline for next year.
I spent a lot of time visiting other participants this past month, curious what others were writing about, whether my imagination could be sparked by something they were writing about, and sometimes just browsing because I was interested in the excerpt of their latest entry. I added a couple people to my blogroll because of that.
One of my secret goals was for one of my entries to be chosen as Best of Holidailies. I was surprised that not one but two were voted such by its panel. Of course, they were both mushy and about the druid. ;P
Interesting experience. I’ll definitely play next year. Thanks to all who participated, you gave us glimpses of your holidays past and present, inspired us, and gave us a lot to think about. I’ve made a few new friends, and look forward to the slight insanity of committing to one entry per day during the most major holiday season of the year. Thank you!
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Challenge yourself to Holidailies 2009 by writing one entry each day in December.
