This is my final
post for November 2013’s NaBloPoMo. What have I learned by blogging every day
for one whole month?
1. I wouldn’t mind
doing it again – just not during NaNoWriMo. I erred in trying to do NaNoWriMo
and NaBloPoMo in the same month. I realized I cannot concentrate on two major
writing goals in the same month – I blew off NaNoWriMo for the most part, though
I did make some progress on that project (but nowhere near 50,000 words).
Speaking of goals...
2. When quantity is
the primary goal, quality takes a back seat. You may have noticed that quite a
few of my November posts have been short. As in photo-and-a-quote short. I
don’t think I made some of my best
posts this month. (WelI, the ones with JFK and the uncircumcised penis and not giving a damn weren’t too bad,
right?) Still, I think I’d prefer to write four good-to-great posts per month
than thirty grab-bag ones. Is posting every day good for anyone’s blogging in
the long run? Maybe not for me.
3. Still, I can see
myself participating in future NaBloPoMos. Doing it once a year helps with
making my yearly quota of 48. Doing it twice guarantees it. (Doing it in this
weird year of 2013 really helped - I am now at 63 posts, matching my largest total from 2009.)
But I don’t want to
blog every day for just two months a year and leave every other day blank.
That’s not how I roll. Meandering happens every damn day, and good blog ideas
can come on any day and at any hour.
Maybe I’ll do it
again in 2014. Perhaps in April. Or in June. Not in November. (I owe you,
NaNoWriMo.)
