Never ever had I come across the hashtag "
blogjune" before. So I got
seriously intrigued by the shear mention of this literary movement on a tweet by
Hawera librarian, Cath Sheard. A shard of information, shared on the last day of
May. Was this just a thing for librarians? Had I stumbled onto a secret blog
club, that prepared pieces of prose and/or poetry on personal computers each
year. Were there any rules? Was this like "FightClub", with its first rule:
"Never blog about #blogjune." I could not trace back any origin of the
event.
On Twitter I did find someone called
@seanfish, who started
blogging many years ago and participated in the #blogjune phenomenon since 2011…
So, for at least over 8 years, this blogfest had been slumbering online out of
my direct sight. What else could have I been missing... is this a symptom of
FOMO… I was already late to the party known as #inktober. As a
cartoonist/illustrator, it had been on my radar - but I didn't join in till last
year. No more standing on the sideline, let's jump right into the deep and ride
this wave from the first of June to Sunday the 30th. THIRTY days!
In the
words of American documentary filmmaker, Morgan Spurlock, "Try something new for
30 days." Writing though, isn't something new to me. I have written stories
and comic strips since primary school. I have worked for many publications,
writing movie and gear reviews and other articles. Heck, I have kept some form
of journal, visual and written (by hand and digital) for over 40 years. Sadly,
last year I accidentally managed to delete seven years of digital journals, only
then to find out my back-up had been corrupted as well. I wish some of that would have been blogged. Even JUST one month of each of these lost years…
They would have been stored online, protected from sudden erasure.
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| My collection of handwritten journals. |
Blogging itself isn't new to me either, I have started a few in the
past. But with no reactions, no views, that soon became an dying art. There are
some of my blogs out there in cyberspace that even I can't find and or don't
remember the password for. Really, the new thing to try would be to keep this
up, consistenly for a whole month.
I read somewhere that the ideal length for
a blog post is 1600 words (about seven minutes of reading). I think 444 will be
enough for my first attempt. I still need to resurrect one of the old blogs in
order to upload this new endeavour.
The epic eRiQ blogging epos of 30 days of
June...
- new stories....
