Great idea, odd name

I suspect a lot of my readers are aware of NaNoWriMo, which is short for National Novel Writing Month, ten years strong now. The idea is to write a novel over the course of the month of November, assessed by word count. I believe the eventual goal of NaNo writers is to reach 50,000 words. I’ve had friends try, had them fail, had the succeed, but no matter what happened, I felt good for them because they got something done.

That being said, I’m not exactly a creative writer. I can very distinctly picture a small book I self-published as a child, in elementary school. I went over a waterfall in a raft, but I totally made it out okay. I don’t really think I’m destined to write amazing fiction works.

However, I do wish I were more of a blogger. I used to write more. It’s not that I don’t communicate much these days, but between things like forums and Twitter and comments on others’ blogs, I don’t really write much for myself, in my own space.

Apparently, I’m not the only person wishing they wrote more, and thinking that NaNo would be something to try to hop along. There’s now NaBloPoMo, which is short for National Blog Posting Month. Perhaps after ten years, it won’t sound as odd to me as it does now.

Anyhow, it’s good enough for me, hopefully, to give this thing a shot. I’m going to see about posting once a day for the entire month of November. Said posts may be short and/or sweet, but there’ll be something here every day. Since TheBon is also doing NaBloPoMo, and that’s where I heard about it this year, I’m going to borrow her ideas (with my own tweaks) for a daily set of themes, in order to help me out. I don’t promise I’ll stick to the themed ideas, but it’ll give me something to work with if I’m feeling dry of ideas.

• Monday Musings: Somewhat more focused thoughts on some topic I’ve had in my mind recently.
• Tubesday: Since the internet is a series of tubes, I’ll use Tuesdays to explore or highlight what I’ve ran across in the prior week. I suspect that my heavy use of Google Reader is going to help me a ton here.
• Working Wednesday: Seeing as I’m frequently dabbling with junk on the ‘net, various pieces of code and such, this’ll be a good excuse to put some of it out in front of you all for thoughts. I hope and expect this post theme to help motivate my work on my JavaScript canvas play. I’m also considering using Wednesday to actively alter the look of this blog (yet again).
• Thursday Inspiration: Hang on baby, Friday’s comin’. I’ll use this day as an excuse to find something inspirational or motivational to finish out the week.
• Photo Phriday: Not Photoshop Phriday (may be NSFW, be warned), but just an excuse to post some pictures that I may have taken during the past week, or perhaps I’ll finally get around to talking about pictures from Europe, or someone else’s photos. Whatever it winds up being, there should be associated photos.

As for Saturday and Sunday, I may reuse a theme or post something a bit more meta. For example, tomorrow’s post may very well be about the new Carrington Theme I’ve installed. I just started talking about it some more here, but I need to stop! Hammertime. I mean, save it for tomorrow.

In fact, that sounds like good advice. So, come back tomorrow for more. Or perhaps you should just add my RSS feed to your reader. More to come.