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Upgrading to Personal Plan wasn’t a nightmare

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I did it. I upgraded this blog to Personal Plan so now the URL to it is tomboyforlife.blog. But you can still use the old one. Upgrading wasn’t a nightmare at all. It was actually quite easy. Everything is in order and nothing has disappeared. Even the old comments are still there. Even if I have an own domain somewhere else, I still decided this blog needed it’s own. Since this is a personal blog, the personal plan was all I needed. And it’s also ad-free, which is nice.

I decided to celebrate it with a new prompt, Rag Tag Daily Prompt. Thank you Reflections of An Untidy Mind for suggesting it. It seems my blog lives on prompts. It’s almost like a nightmare when there’s isn’t many likes in posts. That’s not the reason I started with this prompt though. Since The Daily Post decided to quit, it felt a bit empty without a writing challenge. It’s nice to know people decided to continue where The Daily Post ended. It fills the void and it doesn’t feel so lonely. It’s still early days but I think when people find the RDP, it will bloom. Starting a new blog is always like a nightmare. Thankfully it will get easier once it has launched itself into the blogging world.

4th Anniversary of One Line Sunday

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one line sunday anniversaryHow time flies when you’re having fun. On June 1, 2014, my One Line Sunday started. It feels like it was last year so I was kind of surprised when I saw on my Facebook that it was actually 4 years old already. The first post was this. I’ve added graphics to the post later on. I was quite new to blogging so at the time I didn’t have an image on my posts. At least not on this one. I never thought the whole one line Sunday would stick. It was some kind of experiment and I didn’t even plan to keep it. I’m glad I did. People seem to like it and that’s great.

I thought about having another day where I have a subject but other things have taken my time. Maybe in the future. Now I just keep the one line Sunday. 4 years is a long time. At least for me so I’m quite proud of that.

 

 

The day after The Daily Post ends

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Realised at about 3 pm that there won’t be a new daily prompt in The Daily Post anymore. Felt something was missing. Every day there was a new word but now there’s is none. Or a new photo challenge every week. I thought what should I write about now. An old prompt maybe? The problem is there is no place on their site where you can click on a random word. It used to be ‘Try another’ but it seems to have been taken away. You have to search the whole archive to find the prompts. It’s just too complicated so maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to blog about old topics after all. I guess I have to restart my thinking. We’ll see how this post will go. This prompt is from March this year.

There are other prompts out there but they will never replace The Daily Post. They’re like a family member who’s passed away. No one will be them because they’re unique in their own way. Of course, it’s not grief. Or maybe it is for someone. They’re not really gone because the site is still online. We can still go back and read about blogging. It will be interesting to see what The Daily Post have posted in the past. If you haven’t browsed it already.

So how are You coping? Do you have the day after blues or have you accepted the loss of The daily post and their challenges? If you ask me, it does feel empty and I don’t know what to do. I always looked forward to the next challenge. But I get used to it not seeing it again. Soon it will only be a memory and I would have moved on. It will be more boring but I just have to substitute the emptiness with other things.