Three Things To Keep Me Busy

Three things I'm participating in this month, all alphabet soup titles, but still all three seemed like a good fit:

Yes, I'm trying NaNoWriMo one more time. So far so good, I'm already up to more than 6,000 words out of the goal of 50,00 this month. And I have chosen a much more open ended story this time. Last time around I really wrote myself into a corner and just kinda gave up.A new one that I've heard a lot of good things about. It was inspired by NaNoWriMo, but Art Every Day Month sounded like something I could use this month to keep me going on the creative art making path. It will be interesting to see how it balances out with NaNoWriMo or if one turns out to be more compelling or useful or easy or hard.
And after two succesful months in a row of posting everyday on this blog, I feel like I'm in the habit so I signed up for the official NaBloPoMo- National Blog Posting Month (also inspired by NaNoWriMo). Hopefully the daily posting won't fall by the wayside, but since I'm supposed to be making and sharing Art Every Day (see above) hopefully-fingers-crossed it won't be a problem.
Hope your November is full of daily challenges and fun too.

January Nablopomo

Have you noticed all the blog posts from me recently? There's a reason:



The theme for this month's nablopomo challenge is "Change", so I thought I'd see if a daily blogging habit was a change that I need. I've done this challenge a few times, completed it a couple, came close on a couple.



The daily keeping-track of what I'm doing out in the world, thinking about in my own mind, or creating with my own hands is something I find very useful. Especially when there is a consistentcy to the posting pattern (daily is the goal here). I've found myself re-reading my blog when looking for a past post, or link that I've posted, and I really like that I can reacquaint myself with my own thoughts of a certain time, with pictures!



I guess that's the main value I get out of blogging, how about you?

NaBloPoMo Finish Line

Pshew! I did it!

Harder than it looks or than I thought it would be. Not the blogging necessarily, just the *remembering* to do it every ding danged day for 30 days in a row...But the people were nice, the community created is great and I'll do it again next year.

Just don't ask me about nanowrimo. I utterly failed in that department. Oh well, next year! And I have the next year to work on the great story that I did actually begin.

I Got Yer Verbiage Right Here

Why not, try posting every ding dang day of November? What the hey? I heard a whole lot of good stuff about NaBloPoMo last year, so I'm giving it a whirl this time. It is a nice community over on Ning too. I like Ning, silly name (which is ok by me!), as a social networking site it is pretty well set up and easy to use. The groups within groups thing is pretty cool, good way to organize yourself, and end up talking to people who share more of your interests.

I think this one is hilarious. Even with the intentional "creative spelling". I think it is most likely a play on the icanhascheezburger phenomenon. Which I personally love to pieces, even with the crazee spellin. Hey, I'm still upset with all the misspelling on Disney's Winnie the Pooh, grrrrr. It isn't that I don't misspell things, everyone does (even English Majors), but kids are the consumers of all things Pooh , guess where they pick up information on how the hell to spell things in our crazy language. It is hard enough people! Sword, enough, trough, bye, by buy. sigh.
And don't even get me started on Target. Oy! My family is entirely sick of me ranting about it whenever their stupid commercials come on. Hello, goodbuy. grrrrr. Not only are they completely ruining The Beatles with that ad, but it is seven ways to sundown wrong, or should I say rong to be putting this crapola in their ads. Kids learn to read from all the printed or graphic material that comes into their view, All of it. They don't know when things are intentionally misspelled to make a cutesy play on a song lyric. And having this kind of stuff flashing up on the screen or across magazine ad pages is not helping the problem of learning to read these days. (For adults too, who seem (seam) to have a hard enough time of it!).
hmmm. ok. rant over.

And since I'm going to be doing all this blog posting, I suppose I'll give it one more try. Nanowrimo one more time, until I get it right. And goodness me, I think I've got a really good story this time. But more on that later.

Yes, I know I said last year if I didn't finish my November novel monstrosity, I'd never try again. Well, you didn't know it, but I had my fingers crossed behind my back, so nahnahnah, I'm doing it anyways. So there.

Let the verbal diarrhea begin!