Blogtober: A Summary

As we near the end of October, I want to sum up my participation in Blogtober and explain why I didn't complete my goal of reviewing spooky themed movies, TV specials, and animated shorts every day throughout October.

As this blog also covers mental health topics, I hope you readers will understand or at least sympathize with my reasons for stopping early, and why I don't feel that bad about it. Because it's life, some stressful events happened, and with juggling appointments after breaking my foot it was hard to squeeze in time for watching full movies, and then the process of drafting my posts, editing, setting up the pictures. I thought being down one foot temporarily would be a good reason to focus on Blogtober, but I didn't factor in how much time I'd have to dedicate to the subject as I'm not usually a movie reviewer.

To be honest, I also kind of burned myself out posting on a subject I don't get into often- the horror genre, but I tried to be true to myself and write about lots of spooky themed things that I do enjoy like Tim Burton films and spooky comedies.

Maybe I should see this as a failure but really I don't feel that badly about it right now. It's my first Blogtober and my first time with this type of undertaking after only recently getting back into blogging and adopting a weekly posting schedule. I made it 20 days and covered a lot of things which I had fun doing.

I really love October for many reasons, but a big one being that people are more free about expressing their love for spooky and macabre things that they might otherwise deny. Doing Blogtober has definitely allowed me to embrace that, just look at the aesthetic I'm rocking on my insta right now!

So overall, although I didn't meet the hope that I had for this month, I'm not that upset and I'm still hopeful for this blog's future. Posting has been fun, I've been able to highlight classics that I watched growing up and loved, like the Abbot and Costello movies, and I've gotten to see some really awesome animation by artists I didn't know about before by seeking out and reviewing animated shorts.

I'm super excited for November and all the topics that I've been holding back. I'm talking more art, book reviews, talk of my own book, skincare and lifestyle posts, and blogger tags that I've been tagged in and I will be tagging other wonderful bloggers to do. I hope you guys will enjoy reading about it as much as I enjoy writing about it!

Thank you for following me through this Blogtober!