NaNoWriMo - Day One Stats
Yep, I decided to participate again this year in NaNoWriMo. I've also decided to post here again my progress. I like the word counter on my profile page. It's a clever little things.
This is a curious exercise for me since there have ballooned lots of social and community things around NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. It's curious to me because I guess I'm not really for joining any community-or at least it might be correct to say that I'd join it in my own way.
A couple of years ago I blundered in trying to participate in the NaNoWriMo Livejournal Community by posting my stats, which was pretty much all I had to contribute at the time. I misunderstood and got blasted rather nastily, which I learned happens more often than not in some Livejournal communities. Oddly enough, I'm still a member in the community, but had been so put off still that I wouldn't go near it for any of the tea in China. For now anyway. Perhaps in the future, it's a decision I'll revisit.
As for NaBloPoMo, I guess I'm just not feeling the BlogHer community thing. Don't get me wrong-BlogHer did a great thing in helping women to carve out a spot in the blogosphere, even if it was just in making many of us realize that many of the so-called male expert bloggers actually had just more swagger going on than expertise and there was no reason for females not go forth and blog too about any subject.
However I think BlogHer and I have grown apart. Whatever initial needs I wanted to meet through BlogHer, have since been met and in many ways, their communities just don't speak to me. I know that sometimes people are turned off from them because "mommy bloggers" were/perhaps still are a large constituency for them but that's not a complete turnoff for me. Admittedly when I become a mother, you'll will probably be hard pressed to find any mention of it online beyond maybe an announcement. No Facebook posts/albums, daily blogs about my wee ones or joining online communities or chinwags. I've never been that kind of female. In fact, because I tended to be like a lots of guys in that I'm good at sharing right at a certain point-if at all-it made working with some women difficult. Especially when I would see male colleagues boundaries respected but mine were not.
So while I like the challenge of NaBloPoMo, I'm good just at doing it for me and not feeling like I have to take part in anything else beyond that.
Jinkies, I've probably said more about a lot things than I intended. At least for this post.
Here are the NaNoWriMo - Day One Stats
Average Per Day
1,196
Words Written Today
1,196
Target Word Count
50,000
Target Average Words Per Day
1,667
Total Words Written
1,196
Words Remaining
48,804
Current Day
1
Days Remaining
30
At This Rate You Will Finish On
December 12, 2014
Words Per Day To Finish On Time
1,627
This is a curious exercise for me since there have ballooned lots of social and community things around NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. It's curious to me because I guess I'm not really for joining any community-or at least it might be correct to say that I'd join it in my own way.
A couple of years ago I blundered in trying to participate in the NaNoWriMo Livejournal Community by posting my stats, which was pretty much all I had to contribute at the time. I misunderstood and got blasted rather nastily, which I learned happens more often than not in some Livejournal communities. Oddly enough, I'm still a member in the community, but had been so put off still that I wouldn't go near it for any of the tea in China. For now anyway. Perhaps in the future, it's a decision I'll revisit.
As for NaBloPoMo, I guess I'm just not feeling the BlogHer community thing. Don't get me wrong-BlogHer did a great thing in helping women to carve out a spot in the blogosphere, even if it was just in making many of us realize that many of the so-called male expert bloggers actually had just more swagger going on than expertise and there was no reason for females not go forth and blog too about any subject.
However I think BlogHer and I have grown apart. Whatever initial needs I wanted to meet through BlogHer, have since been met and in many ways, their communities just don't speak to me. I know that sometimes people are turned off from them because "mommy bloggers" were/perhaps still are a large constituency for them but that's not a complete turnoff for me. Admittedly when I become a mother, you'll will probably be hard pressed to find any mention of it online beyond maybe an announcement. No Facebook posts/albums, daily blogs about my wee ones or joining online communities or chinwags. I've never been that kind of female. In fact, because I tended to be like a lots of guys in that I'm good at sharing right at a certain point-if at all-it made working with some women difficult. Especially when I would see male colleagues boundaries respected but mine were not.
So while I like the challenge of NaBloPoMo, I'm good just at doing it for me and not feeling like I have to take part in anything else beyond that.
Jinkies, I've probably said more about a lot things than I intended. At least for this post.
Here are the NaNoWriMo - Day One Stats
Average Per Day
1,196
Words Written Today
1,196
Target Word Count
50,000
Target Average Words Per Day
1,667
Total Words Written
1,196
Words Remaining
48,804
Current Day
1
Days Remaining
30
At This Rate You Will Finish On
December 12, 2014
Words Per Day To Finish On Time
1,627