Just a couple more days to go in the NaBloPoMo Challenge, to post daily blog articles for one month, but it’s clear that I’m failing.
It’s getting harder to write posts when I don’t have time in between to gather material, and to think about what I’m writing.
Since I’m rushing to post, I end up writing about whatever is going on today. Meanwhile, I’m postponing more thoughtful entries.
It’s been a good exercise, allowing me to see what I can and can’t do. As a result, I now know that daily posting will never be one of my goals. In fact, I’m tempted to join the Slow Blogging Movement:
A Slow Blog Manifesto, written in 2006 by Todd Sieling, a technology consultant from Vancouver, British Columbia, laid out the movement’s tenets. “Slow Blogging is a rejection of immediacy,” he wrote. “It is an affirmation that not all things worth reading are written quickly.”
I love blogging, but I’m not doing this to get rich. Mostly, I’m doing this for myself to think through challenges, to remember, to share experiences, and to learn from others. I certainly don’t have to follow any conventions regarding posting frequency, or any other blog rules.
Hopefully, you’ll still want to join me on this ride!
So, here we are, still visiting family in Florida, on a return visit to see the manatees at Blue Spring State Park.
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Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself about NaBloPoMo. I have really been enjoying your posts. I wanted to go to Florida to visit my cousins, and wasn’t able to go. Seeing your wonderful posts have helped me feel like I did get to visit, only via proxy.
How is NaNo going? I was feeling a bit of a failure in that end because my entire family got sick and I had to stop writing at about 33,000 words. It’s okay though, because I learned an awful lot about writing in a genre I had never tried before, mystery.
I had to laugh because I ran across the “Kill Your Blog” article you talked about in a previous post the other day. It was published in “Wired” magazine. Now, weren’t blogs supposed to be the death of print magazines? LOL!
Hope you enjoy the rest of your stay in Florida.
Thanks, Roberta. You made me smile.
Congratulations on writing 33,000 words, that’s an accomplishment in itself. The beauty of NaNoWriMo is that we succeed just by trying!