NaBloPoMo
A writing event for the month of November. Check out the details written by Eden Marriott Kennedy here
Welcome to National Blog Posting Month!
Welcome to the new home of NaBloPoMo! I think it’s much more impressive than the old place.
“What the heck is going on here?” you ask. Well, it’s pretty simple. You get yourself a blog, if you don’t have one already — and don’t mind me if I’m stupefied at the idea that there’s someone left in the English speaking world without their own blog. Then you look at the calendar, and when the whole world goes, “Oh, I can’t believe they’re already playing Christmas music in the warden’s office!” you’ll know it’s November and that is the month in which you post something to your blog every day, in accordance with the National Blog Posting Month challenge!
Last year everybody just went for it, posting thirty days in a row and maybe hoping to win a prize in the random drawing. This year, for those of you who suspect you might run out of gas, maybe you’d like to try blogging on a theme. Follow a news story for the month; get deeper into an issue that you want to educate yourself about; keep us abreast of how your yoga practice / daily muffin-eating regime / matchstick Eiffel Tower is progressing.
Or simply use NaBloPoMo as a writing exercise, as an easier-to-accomplish alternative to the marathon that inspired it: National Novel Writing Month.
You can sign yourself up by clicking on the Members tab. Doing so will mean that all the other crazy people who are doing this will be able to find you and your blog.
The Forums tab will take you to a place where you can commiserate with other people who are loving NaBlo, hating NaBlo, tearing their hair out over NaBlo, or cheating by backdating their posts.
The Groups tab will help you find other like-minded individuals. I’m looking at you, knitting bloggers.
By the way, “every day” means Saturday and Sunday, too. Hence the above reference to “cheating.” Not that you would.
You can do your posting here, you can do it on your blog, or you can cross-post in both places, it’s completely up to you.
But post we must … begin those drafts now … November will be here before you know it!
writing, blogs, NaBloPoMo, November
October 19th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Sounds good to me…where do we sign up?
~Linda~
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October 22nd, 2007 at 1:02 am
Linda, It is a good thing. In the first sentence of the post “NaBloPoMo” there is a link “here” after Eden Marriott Kennedy’s name that will take you to her web site where you can sign up. Best wishes writing. Sorry for the delay in response, out of town.
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