NaBloPoMo - Day 1
Since last year’s pseudo-NaNoWriMo effort was a near-complete failure, I’ve decided to go at it from a different angle this time around. I’m falling in with the scores and scores of bloggers who’ve agreed to participate in National Blog Posting Month, officially hosted at the fabulous Fussy, which you should all read anyway, yes you should. Visit the official site here.
The only rule is that you have to post something to your blog every day. I usually post three or four times a week anyway, so I’m not expecting this to be a huge stretch for me, though it will be an exercise in discipline, which goodness knows I could use a smidge more of. There’s no crazy word count expectation like those crazy novelists have, but at the end of the month I’ll add it all up so I can have a big shiny number to look at and wonder how much I could’ve accomplished if I’d put those words towards something productive.
For the last few weeks I’ve been considering several variations on blank-blank-blank-Mo: making a new video every day, posting a new photo to Flickr every day, cooking something new every day…you get the idea. Although I thought for a while that I’d do ALL THOSE THINGS AT ONCE, I eventually came to my senses and chose the option at which I was most likely to succeed. I’ve demonstrated much over-ambition in the past, so it’s probably good to start small. The fancier projects can still happen next month, if this one goes well.
I’ve been idly trying to come up with a theme for this month, a series of posts I could do that would hang together somehow, would explore every nook and cranny of some part of the world in nauseating, exhaustive detail, but so far I got nothin’. If anyone has any brilliant theme ideas, I’d love to hear them.
It’s not too late to join the fun yourself, if you’d like. Don’t have a blog? You can make this your National De-Lurking Month. Every day, comment on a different blog. Simple, yes? It could be one you’ve been reading for a while, or one that’s new to you. To facilitate this, I think I’ll post a link here every day to a blog I read and would recommend*. Today’s link already happened, but in case you can’t be bothered to scroll up, I’ll remind you again to go read Fussy. Damnit.
Off to bed. Will I post actual content tomorrow? Oooh, suspense.
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* I hereby declaim all responsibility for any addiction or loss of contact with the non-interwebby world that may result. If you’d like to be one of my linkees, or if you think I might link you and would rather I didn’t, let me know.