I'm still in it, though Thanksgiving week has been a little tighter. I have more real-life commitments and more real-life people to interact with, so my last three posts have been last-minute dashes to the computer. But I made it! Once I get back to my boring non-Thanksgiving life I imagine the last five days will be pretty easy.
I'm still goin strong. I haven't had any problems posting because...well...I talk to much. That and I have been really sticking to one subject (for the most part). For me, its easy to write something out when you just write the nonsense that you are hearing in your mind. Writing a post a day is pretty fun if you don't stress about it. At the end of the day, you're not being graded. :-)
I'm still in, had a few rough days when I had family in town, and ove rthe weekend when I was super sick, but I got it done, so far so good.... the end is in sight!!
I'm surprised how swimmingly this month has gone so far. Writing has become easier than it's been in a long time, simply because I can't put it off or wait for an idea to crystalize perfectly; I have to get it down in print now. That's spurred me to write more fluently and with greater freedom than usual.
It's actually been a lot easier (so far) than I expected. I've been wary of committing that thought to words, though, for fear that I'll bring fate laughing down on me.
Some of my strategies: I'm letting myself write anything, not tying myself to a theme or a schedule. I've written movie reviews, recipes, link-heavy posts, and stories. I've forced myself to find my little kick-around camera and carry it with me so I can snap quick shots to post. I've harvested old ideas that never quite worked out in my head, and find to my surprise that I'm happy with the results.
There's still a chance that I'll falter, if one day I forget to wrest the shared computer from my partner before midnight, or if our dial-up fails, or if an emergency arises. But barring circumstances like those, I expect to break the finish line barely even breathing hard.
I signed up hoping to jump-start my blogging habits beyond December 1st. I think it may have worked!
It's been a little stressful for me, for some reason. I generally use memes to post four or five times a week so it's a surprise that the additional couple of days took me off guard. :) And I'm farther behind in Nanowrimo than I'd like to be. Still have nearly sixteen thousand words to go...and while my plot has picked up some, my writing desire seems to have fallen on hard times. At this very moment, I'm looking for my bootstraps. Still want to get around to read everyone's blog but guess the blogroll stays up for a while ~ that will make a really nice rest and enjoyment reward!
Still going strong! I have always posted regularly to my blog, but finding something interesting to post EVERY day has been a challenge. But it's been great motivation!
So far, it has been pretty easy. I've been putting up at least one blog post month days since July or August. During the previous months, I've let some days slip because I didn't have any specific need to make sure I covered every day. This month, there were a couple days that I could have let slip if I weren't doing NaBloPoMo. But, because I was doing NaBloPoMo, I powered through and put a post up on those days as well. For the month, I'm at 45 posts.
One thing that makes it easy for me is that I reject the notion that you have to write for a specific niche. I write about all kinds of things that I'm interested in, politics, technology, media, and so on. Between the topics, I can typically find something to write about every day.
I'm still here. My writing is making my eyeballs bleed (it's so bad) but I'm hanging in there. It's not that I don't have anything to say - it's that I don't care to take the time to say it well. I will not be defeated, though! I'm in it to the bitter end.
I'm still hanging in there. A lot going on in my life, so time is more an issue than blog fodder has been. I've an odd committment to getting something in every day, when I have so many other things pulling me in other directions. I think this grounds me, now; it's something that's mine...
I'm still here, which surprises me to no end. Its been a lot easier than I thought it would be though. I just hope I've gotten into a habit of doing it and I won't even realize that its over.
Keeping kosher so far, and even starting to plan a few posts in advance!
Writing a post is easy. Writing a GOOD post is the challenge. It's taken more time than I've thought.
I'm finding that when I expect to write a post every day, I'm coalescing words around one or two key images more often. Sometimes that means running out to buy something or staying late to use the scanner.
I also try to regularly update a comics blog in addition to my personal blog, so I'm probably over 30 by now in sheer number.
One thing I regret - I'd enjoy exploring the NaBloPoMo site more, but I need to eat and sleep too...
It's funny for me, because I started this challenge, truly hoping that it would at least get me to realize that I have a blog. Before this month, I don't think that I posted to it more than 5 times.
I have posted every day so far. I also have discovered that my blog is truly therapeutic. I REALLY need my blog. I hope that I can keep this up. Even doing a single sentence post is kind of a grounding thing. This challenge has truly helped me start to clear up things in my life. Thanks!
I was really looking forward to this as a writing/blogging exercise. I was hoping to cut down on the size of my posts by posting more frequently .. I am often blog-stipated. I think too much about what I want to write and have dead air for a few days followed by a too-lengthy post.
I have posted at least once each day and sometimes more than once. Post-November, I'll try to keep posting once a day on average. It keeps the ideas and words flowing.
Part of it has always been easy - I always have things to say on both my blogs, even if it's just a couple of sentences about a books I've read (always have a backlog) or a picture of a stitching finish.
The hard part at first was the discipline needed to say something every day, rather than just comment on other people's blogs. Then it started getting easier, and now I'm actually looking forward each morning to putting a post up, and I'm doing two or three in a day...especially now I can see the end of the month is in sight :o)
I'm making no claims for the worth of my writing, my posts are the equivalent of my 11 yr old self writing what I ate for dinner and the weather in a little pocket diary, but I'm writing...
I haven't missed a day, which is a little surprising to me since I had a nagging feeling at the beginning that I wouldn't make it through November without missing a day. It's been pretty easy, to be honest. I just have a constant memo in my brain - MUST BLOG TODAY - and I haven't forgotten. YET!
This is how I flet as well!!! I actually started posting before I knew about this lol, but after that, made a conscious effort to post daily, even if it was something nonsensical.
I think that posting every day is like exercising every day; it's hard to get into the groove at first, but once you get into it, it flows very naturally.
It was hard at first - but even more difficult over the holidays! Try prying a child off the myspace page six days in a row....UGH! Shared computer at home is NOT good for routine blogging.
Readership has increased, and since I usually posted 8-10 times a month, NaBloPoMo has encouraged me to blog more!
