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January Blogging Optimism (?)

By Chris Mills @landing_tales

This is to be yet again an attempt to revitalise the Landing Tales blog and to see if it has any life left in it. Last year’s attempt foundered as you, Dear Reader, may have noticed. However, I am not one to give up without one more wrestle with the keyboard. To that end I have a plan of sorts to gee me up and into what I hope will be a sustainable blogging pattern for 2025.

I said a plan ‘of sorts’ because in a way there is no grand plan to lay out for your perusal. My very basic idea is that I will aim simply to write something bookish (or not exactly bookish, as the case may be) and pop it up on the blog without worrying too much about themes, topics, challenges, TBR piles etc. Just getting something, anything written has to be the best way forward for now if I don’t wish to give up entirely and retire the Landing for good after all these years.

January Blogging Optimism (?)

A notebook that I have used for book lists for several years.

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As usual in recent years, I have spurned the notion of New Year resolutions, apart from my general aim to read as much as I possibly can. This is as well as continuing to do all the other activities that I enjoy. So the blog initiative falls under this New Year umbrella of ‘keeping on, keeping on’ doing stuff that I value and trying to find time for it all. Let us see if it works…

I was looking back over previous January posts on The Landing and spotted this New Year post from a rather scary twelve years ago about the vexed question of fresh starts, with Janus looking both back to the past year and ahead to the new. I will leave you with that and hope to be back with you soon.


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