According to my records, I made my first post in my weekly streak four years ago this month, back on 30 April 2022.
It wasn’t anything special. Heck, most of my posts aren’t really all that special.
I don’t know that I planned to start the streak that week, at least not in any specific way. I didn’t even talk about it being a streak until two weeks later. I think I was sort of worried about jinxing it.
Along the way, I’ve had some decently long posts and some really short ones, mostly to maintain the streak. I don’t feel too bad about doing that. Dean Wesley Smith, the guy whose decade-long daily streak inspired me to try this, has tossed up placeholder posts on more than one occasion.
That’s essentially what this one is, since I’m busy this weekend tabulating scores for Saturday’s Red Fern Feis in Tahlequah (and Sunday’s Cherokee Capital Feis).
I commented in the three-year-anniversary post that I had been getting sloppy about building the post over the course of the week. Early on, I was running around 1,000 to 1,500 words a post. Lately, I’ve been pushing hard to break 750 (and this one won’t be that long). I’m going to make a concerted effort to get back to my piecemealing process so the posts get longer.
Next week.
Honest.
Don’t laugh at me.
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