Yesterday I was looking at Amy Hupe’s website and learned of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). Since I recently built a blog, this seems like a great opportunity to write more.
In theory the idea is simple: write a blog post every day of November. In practice the idea is also simple, but simple isn’t necessarily easy. Working under time constraints means that I can’t make everything be as good as I’d like it to be.
This is probably a good thing. In order for written things to be good they must be readable: readable meaning comprehensible, and readable meaning “someone else can find it and then read it”.
One problem:
I uh missed the start. I can’t really blame myself: having only learned of NaBloPoMo on the third of November. Thankfully, this isn’t actually a problem because I don’t really care. It’d also be against the spirit to not write anything at all, just because I didn’t write anything for three days.
At this point I don’t know whether I’ll be writing every day or just every weekday. Maybe I’ll start off writing every day and take a weekend off at some point.
What I’m going to write about
I don’t really know.
Probably a mixture of things. I have a few small changes I want to make to the blog, so I’ll likely write about those changes as I make them. Maybe a post or two about the tools I use on a day-to-day basis. A few meta posts about how it feels to be writing more.
The more interesting category of things I’ll write about are the things I don’t presently know that I will be writing about later on in the month. It only seems natural that ideas will sprout up and flow in, and I’ll use them for the blog.
It’s going to be super anticlimactic if the ideas never arrive.
Talking into the void
I’m not planning on syndicating these blog posts very heavily, and not many people even know I have a blog, so it’s likely that not many people will read these posts. That doesn’t matter. I’m not writing a blog for the people who don’t read it: I’m writing it for me.
Get involved: I made a blog in like two hours using Lume by reading the documentation. If you know me personally and don’t know how to start up a blog, get in touch with me and I’ll help you out for free. If you don’t know me personally but figure out a polite way of getting in touch with me, I’ll also probably help you out for free :)
✨ Happy reading, and happy writing! ✨