Thousands of people will be taking part in what has become an annual tradition every November, the National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo).
I’m not taking part. I considered creating a blog writing equivalent. But after a search, I discovered there was one, NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month)
The goal for NaBloPoMo is a post a day for the month, as opposed to the NaNoWriMo goal for a 50,000 word minimum first draft of a novel.
The “one post” part of this seems a bit too easy. (Oh yeah? How many months have you managed that? -ed.)
Okay, I’ll rephrase that. The one post per day goal isn’t ambitious enough. It serves as my primary goal, however.
So what are my secondary goals? Certainly not 50,000 words. I don’t have that in me. Not to mention that it would encourage bloviating. Also, I don’t want to just have token posts with a single sentence to fill out a quota. So my personal ground rules will be:
- One post per day minimum.
- Items republished from twitter don’t count.
- Items that are just excerpts from, or links to other sources don’t count.
- Qualifying blog posts should have a minimum of 100 words of original content.
- A secondary goal of a minimum of 50 posts for the month.
- A secondary goal of a total of 10,000 words.
- “Tote Board” posts showing my posting progress for the month will not count, unless accompanied by further commentary on NaBloPoMo
- ???
- PROFIT! (I don’t think so -ed.)
Here we go.
Saturday, November 1, 2025 addendum
So, that didn’t go so well. (story of amateur blogging in a nutshell)
But I’m going to have a crack at it again
Originally, this had a link to a website that was hosting as sort of ‘official’ NaBloPoMo HQ. It’s no longer there, but there are others picking up the baton.
On such effort (with a brief history) is at “The In Between is Mine“
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