Why Don't I Blog More?

Here's an interesting comparison: if all goes well with the rest of Blogtober, even considering that I didn't have a post yesterday, I will easily have posted more times this month than the rest of the year combined. I knew I was bad at consistently posting, and that I hadn't blogged a lot this year, but I honestly didn't think that it was that much. So, therefore, a question: why?

This has been far from my best blogging year, and it hasn't been my best reading year, either. I wrote about how far I am behind on my Goodreads challenge in another blogtober post. If I haven't been reading as many books, then I don't really have as much to write about. That much makes sense. But I've been in reading slumps and still blogged before!

I've also been super busy this year. I finished another year of college, had a summer internship, and I'm doing another internship this semester. And frankly, if I have to choose between being academically successful and blogging more, I'm going to choose the academic success. But I don't think that choice is really a thing at this point, so that doesn't explain my lack of blogging, either.

There are about a million contributing factors, but I guess it all boils down to the fact that I haven't been setting aside time to blog. And even though I've really missed blogging, I'm kind of glad I wasn't forcing myself to do it. It's like a reading slump: if you force yourself to read through it, it doesn't always work out in the best way.

So here's yet another blogging goal that I may or may not follow through with: I want to set aside more time to blog, and write more posts that I really care about. Some of these Blogtober posts have been so fun to write, and I really want to do more like them! It's really gotten me excited about blogging again, and I can't wait to see what the future has to offer!

Do you have a consistent blogging schedule? Tell me in the comments!