For the uninitiated, Blaugust is a blogging challenge, started by Belghast in 2014, where participants post 31 times during the month of August. A post for every day of the month. I took part this year and completed the challenge successfully. No slumps, no misses, no scrounging around for ideas—I just did it. And enjoyed it.
I realised about two-thirds of the way in that I had got into a comfortable rhythm of writing. Most importantly, I wrote things that I can look back proudly on. I did art a…