B: Blogging – Dead or Alive?

Is blogging dead or alive?

I’ve wondered about this as I’ve noticed that I rarely post on my WordPress blogs anymore.

MasterBlogging.com has some numbers which seem to prove that blogging is still alive and well.

Key Statistics

• There are 600 million blogs among 1.9 billion websites worldwide in 2024.
• These blogs produce 7.5 million blog posts daily.
• Tumblr hosts the most blogs, with 518 million.
• WordPress, the second most popular platform, has 60 million blogs.

Wow – that’s a lot of blogs and blog posts.

Being curious, I went to my own WordPress page to check some of my information. I knew I’d been blogging for a long time but didn’t remember when I started. I also knew that I had many WordPress blogs that I haven’t actively posted on for many years.

I first started blogging in 2012. Along the way, I’ve added new blogs as my interest veered through my writing journey. When I was collaborating on a book with my sister, Trail Angel Mama, of course I started a Trail Angel Mama blog. When I was trying to gear up interest in herbal things, Herb Thyme was born. Writers Zen was born when I was gathering affirmations about writing. Vintage Daze came to life for the historical fiction stories. Embracing Life Tribe for my inspirational blogs.

My goodness, as I scrolled through my list, I discovered that I have 17 WordPress blogs! Some haven’t been posted to since 2012, 2013, or 2015.

I find that I typically use my blogs as I’m writing a book, adding content to the books as I blog along.

One book I’ve been working on for – oh, about three years now – Calico Connections. I’m in an online writers group that post story snippets once a week to a word prompt. But participating in the group, I’ve been slowly but surely adding another 500 words to the story every week. Which means it’s taking me a looooooong time to get this book written. But at least this way I’m consistently adding some words to the manuscript every week.

And thank goodness for April, when the A to Z blog challenge rolls around. At least during April I get some good writing in. Since 2014 I’ve only missed two years in the annual blog challenge. Many of the years I’ve participated with more than one blog.

So thank you, A to Z, for having this challenge and helping me get some words written!