It’s become painfully clear that the November Experiment (aka NaBloPoMo) (aka Let’s Turn Something That Might Otherwise Be Pleasant Into a Daily Torture So Unbearable I Don’t Post Again For Two Months) was not an overwhelming success.

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I thought I was so clever with my NaBloPoMo idea (specifically, the nickname for it, not the idea of posting every day for a month). But alas, someone has beaten me to it.

Today is Day One of National Novel Writing Month, affectionately known by the crazies who attempt the lunacy of NaNoWriMo. I tried it once, a few years back, and it wasn’t pretty. The idea of writing 50,000 words during the span of a messed up month like November is just plain silly, let alone having to make those words all form together into coherent sentences that tell a story. So I’m instead using November as my own personal National Blog Posting Month. Read the rest of this entry »