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Jan 01 2009

NaNoWriMo on my Blog

Published by Hava under -- No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty, NaNoWriMo, NaNoWriMo blogging, National Novel Writing Month, New Year's goals, New Year's resolution for January, Nonfiction Lover Edit This

laptop pictureFor those of you who haven’t been around since I wrote my review of No Plot? No Problem! and have no idea what NaNoWriMo is, I thought I’d quickly fill you in.  NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and is an annual event put on by Chris Baty and team where huge groups of people spend the month of November trying to write a 50,000-word novel.  It’s quite exciting, and no, I’ve never done it.

But I decided that although there’s no chance I’ll get a novel written in a month, there is a pretty good chance I can manage to write one post every single day on this blog this month.  There are months I’ve come close to doing this, but as of yet, I don’t believe I’ve ever managed to put up a post every single day.

So this is my New Year’s resolution for January - to post every day, and get some traffic flowing into this place.  At the moment, my traffic stats are rather dismal (probably because I tend to be very sporadic about posting, which isn’t a good thing, to say the least) so not only will posting every day sharpen my writing skills, but help the influx of traffic.  I hope. ;-)

To help me on my journey, I have found a cool new toy that I really like, called Now Do This.  It is a website where you input a simple to-do list, and then when you finish with each item, you click “done” down at the bottom, until you get to the end of your list (which I have no idea what happens at that point, since I haven’t gotten there yet.  Darn it.)  But I have opened it up in my sidebar (love Firefox!!) and so I have a giant reminder on the side of my screen at all times, telling me what to do.

Which is awesome, because I have the attention span of a gerbil.  *I* like to think of it as having a special talent to get sidetracked easily.  If only this was a good thing…

So that’s my New Year’s goal for January.  Anyone have any goals they want to share with the world?  Feel free to leave a comment below. :-) Oh, and Happy New Years!!!

Havs

PS Make sure to check out and vote in the poll all the way to the right —-> I’m curious about my reader’s reading habits, so please, indulge me. ;-)

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