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Blaugust 2026 Wrap Up: Meeting My Goals

By GamerLady

Aug 31, 2026 | Blaugust2026, blogging, writing | 0 comments

Blaugust 2026 Festival of Blogging

My participation in this year’s festival was never about doing a daily blog post. There are several participants who did hit that milestone and I will edit this post later to share the stats that are being gathered from the participants. My plan this time around was to focus on the Community Builder Edition of the festival. I wasn’t able to be as active as I wanted, but overall I met my goal.

  • Make a post on your blog on or before August 1st, 2026 inviting other bloggers to participate in Blaugust. Make sure you link the signup form. I finished this one early on.
  • Engage with other Blaugust participants at least once per week. Read posts, leave comments, join discussions in the Blaugust Discord and share posts written by others on social media. I really wanted to be much more active on people’s posts, but I did get some comments done, and engaged on Discord.
  • Create or join in a group project – choose a topic, find some other bloggers, and each post your own take on that topic on the same day. I only missed a few of the group project posts due to unexpected travel, but it was a fun way to be inspired.

The two community builder prompts I didn’t get done were: 1) Make at least 5 posts directly inspired by a post by another Blaugust participant. Make sure you provide a link back to the post in question. 2) Guest post on another Blaugust participant’s blog – or have someone else guest post on yours!

I know that I’m going to go back to being less active on my blog now that the festival is over. Having this group vibe definitely contributes to my motivation and topic ideas. I’m glad I signed up this year. I have felt the loss of Bel throughout the month and just generally in Discord and in my Inbox. But I’ve also seen his legacy carried forward with flying colors. I genuinely hope this has taken on a life of its own and we see many more years of this community going forward. 

blaugust 2026 community builder
Here is the list of participating sites. This is not fully alphabetical because of late additions to the list. There were also a bunch of blogs in either Chinese or Japanese, but I wasn’t sure how my roll would treat the characters, so I didn’t add them. You can find those and all of the participants’ links on Nerd Girl Thoughts.

Blaugust 2026 Mentors

Big thanks for all of their hard work!

Jaedia (The Dragon Chronicle), created this year’s header image.

The 2026 Participants

This list represents a very eclectic collection of topics. some are clear from the blog name, some are a mystery. But we all love a good mystery, right?

Blaugust Info

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