Challenge: National Blog Posting Month
Oct 24, 2007 by rilla
Last year I missed out on National Blog Posting Month. Well, technically, I missed out on NaBloPoMo for several years, but last year was the first year that I knew about it. This year, I'm not gonna miss out on the fun. When I first started blogging I would post several times a day, even during the heat of writing essays and studying for exams. However, my pattern for the last couple of years (alas, old blog what exploded, I miss you) has been to post around four or five times a week. I would like to be able to post every day. I would also like those posts to actually be interesting and meaty pieces of writing, and not just a video with "lolz" captioned beneath it.
So here's the dealy... dealio? dealy-o?
So here's what's going to happen.
Starting in November I will post something here at this very blog every day. Every day, I tell you. That means I'm going to need a little bit of help coming up with cool things to write about. Do you remember that one time that I made you blog for me? Your comments were a leaping off point for blog posts, and it spawned the classic, The Vicious Cycle/Circle. I think we can do this together. We've got exactly one week before NaBloPoMo begins which should be lots of time for you to suggest things that you'd like me to talk about.
Go for it, studio audience! If you could have Rilla blog about something, what would it be? Comment!
So here's the dealy... dealio? dealy-o?
So here's what's going to happen.
Starting in November I will post something here at this very blog every day. Every day, I tell you. That means I'm going to need a little bit of help coming up with cool things to write about. Do you remember that one time that I made you blog for me? Your comments were a leaping off point for blog posts, and it spawned the classic, The Vicious Cycle/Circle. I think we can do this together. We've got exactly one week before NaBloPoMo begins which should be lots of time for you to suggest things that you'd like me to talk about.
Go for it, studio audience! If you could have Rilla blog about something, what would it be? Comment!
Posts
Sorry, you can't have any of my fabulous ideas.
I want to win.
"Walking Backwards in Flippers: An Epidemiological Study of Upper Class Twits, 1919-1978"
"You Spent HOW MUCH on Pixie Stix™?"
"The Elusive Semi-Colon: Abuse and Accolades"
"Seven Reasons Why You Should Never Whistle at/on/in a Cat's Arse"
"Four More Reasons Why Whistling at/on/in a Cat's Arse is No Good"
"The Day My Underpants Revolted"
"I Don't Know What It Is, But I Spent All Day Making It, So Eat Up Or Leave, You Ungrateful Bastard"
"Seven Reasons Not To Poke The Tremere"
"I Was a Teenage Ash Pile"
"I Found This In My Vaccum Bag (a Photographic Essay)"
- discuss.
Welcome to NaBloPoMo! :D
I think it's "dealie-yo".
suz: pbbt. Since you won't share your ideas, you'd better participate in NaBloPoMo!
cenobyte: That's a starting point... or a fortnight's worth of posts. You rock.
jessi: Thanks :)
t.: Under what authority do you make this pronouncement?
That's why I said I was going to win. [grin]
The nature of national pride vis a vis Canadians not noticing that this is a "National" challenge set up by an American, and how this reflects throughout our culture and in the international stage, as well as the counterpoint that in the global village set up of the bloggosphere that naming something national is offensive, divisive and limiting, and how this reflects on your culture that such a title would linger probably not be noticed.
(Note that I don't actually care that much about this point, especially for something as minor as this challenge, but it brings up so many things that are just sitting slightly unsaid, such as Canadian national identity and proper word usage, and can provide a good catalyst for discussion of them.)
suz: At least now your my NaBloPoMo friend. Finally.
grymm: Noted. That is practically a post in itself, if slightly leading in its wording ;)