A blog a day - NaBloPoMo
NaBloPoMo (http://nablopomo.ning.com/) is a relation of NaNoWriMo, but for those of us with less time, and or less dedication to a single subject. I will be joining in, and attempting to update this blog with an entry for every day of November. Also, unlike my normal secretive nature on this blog, this represents a change to open blog entries that I've been considering for a while (I keep thinking my story entries should be public if nothing else, as they are reposted on talismancy.com publicly). So this represents a permanent change, that I will start having public entries. Some stuff will continue to be posted on various friends filters or private (Yes, I use the private function of my blog), but I will be trying to make one public entry every day for November.
So, with a few days to go, I thought I'd sketch down some ideas for posting every day, and I'll start with the days I'm worst at. Over the last 6 months (since the start of May), I've updated
Sundays: 12 out of 26
Mondays: 11 out of 26
Tuesdays: 13 out of 26 (inc today)
Wednesdays: 7 out of 25
Thursdays: 10 out of 26
Fridays: 5 out of 26
Saturdays: 6 out of 26
Overall: 64 out of 181 (35% of the time, which supports my general attempt to post at least one day in three)
From this I can clearly see my worst days are Fridays, Saturdays and Wednesdays. Wednesdays are because of SWARM, I generally don't update before I go out, and will arrive back around the midnight point. I need to be updating for Wednesdays early rather than late. As for why less Fridays and Saturdays, I don't actually know.
The largest surprise was that Tuesdays are my strongest day, when I thought they'd be one of my weaker ones. I work 12-4, and then go to Dom's for the evening.
So, how do I go about tripling my blog output for a month? That's going to be hard, and I'll be blogging some much more random and mundane subjects. But I wondered about [at least starting] with a weekly structure to follow. Given my weeks are generally reasonably similar to each other, posting about the same subject on given days shouldn't be too hard should it?
So, somewhere to start:
Sunday (evening): Fiction - A fiction a week... I need to get back to writing fic, and start up a series again. probably Echoes, as it's in need of plot!
Monday: What I did at the weekend. Given I've got stuff on several weekends, this is a plan.
Tuesday (morning): Thoughts for the week to come or the week gone. Entries like this one.
Wednesday (morning): Stuff about Tuesday night gaming
Thursday: Either stuff about Wednesday gaming (MTG, board games), circus, or friendship developments
Friday (morning): Plans for the weekend
Saturday (morning): Programming, electronics, or web stuff.
Wish me luck at achieving this!
So, with a few days to go, I thought I'd sketch down some ideas for posting every day, and I'll start with the days I'm worst at. Over the last 6 months (since the start of May), I've updated
Sundays: 12 out of 26
Mondays: 11 out of 26
Tuesdays: 13 out of 26 (inc today)
Wednesdays: 7 out of 25
Thursdays: 10 out of 26
Fridays: 5 out of 26
Saturdays: 6 out of 26
Overall: 64 out of 181 (35% of the time, which supports my general attempt to post at least one day in three)
From this I can clearly see my worst days are Fridays, Saturdays and Wednesdays. Wednesdays are because of SWARM, I generally don't update before I go out, and will arrive back around the midnight point. I need to be updating for Wednesdays early rather than late. As for why less Fridays and Saturdays, I don't actually know.
The largest surprise was that Tuesdays are my strongest day, when I thought they'd be one of my weaker ones. I work 12-4, and then go to Dom's for the evening.
So, how do I go about tripling my blog output for a month? That's going to be hard, and I'll be blogging some much more random and mundane subjects. But I wondered about [at least starting] with a weekly structure to follow. Given my weeks are generally reasonably similar to each other, posting about the same subject on given days shouldn't be too hard should it?
So, somewhere to start:
Sunday (evening): Fiction - A fiction a week... I need to get back to writing fic, and start up a series again. probably Echoes, as it's in need of plot!
Monday: What I did at the weekend. Given I've got stuff on several weekends, this is a plan.
Tuesday (morning): Thoughts for the week to come or the week gone. Entries like this one.
Wednesday (morning): Stuff about Tuesday night gaming
Thursday: Either stuff about Wednesday gaming (MTG, board games), circus, or friendship developments
Friday (morning): Plans for the weekend
Saturday (morning): Programming, electronics, or web stuff.
Wish me luck at achieving this!