NaNoWriMo is all over the place now. If you know what that is then it shouldn’t be any surprise since it is November. But I learned of a new kind of NaMo today. It’s the NaBloPoMo.
I have nothing against these efforts. My first heroes were novelists – right after I got past the fireman stage. After reading Jaws at the age of 10 I fell in love with literature. I wanted to be a novelist from that point on. In college, I discovered poetry and I haven’t gone back since. But I still get a hankering to write prose from time to time. I just wish I had the time to devote to it.
I guess some people have the time because NaNoWriMo is very popular. I wish these folks lots of luck. Write a ton of words and get them published. That’s what it’s all about.
Someone was inspired by the success of NaNoWriMo and decided to start a National Blog Posting Month, to encourage bloggers to post to their blogs every day. That’s not a bad idea. Daily blog posting is a good thing. I believe everyone who blogs should post every day. I do. Without fail, I make it a point to post every single day and, believe me, it’s no easy task. Finding something new to post about every day is a challenge. It’s possible. I do it. And thousands of other bloggers do it too. I believe anyone can do it. But it takes focus.
If you are inclined to join these types of efforts then I encourage you to do it. Post to your blog every day. Write a novel this month. Then next month you can enjoy the holidays and start marketing your brilliance.
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You have basically described exactly why I joined NaBloPoMo this year. In the beginning of my blog I used to post daily, if not really close to it. But through time I started posting less and less, and eventually stopped posting all together.
It wasn’t that I stopped loving blogging, it was that I lost momentum. With the loss of momentum comes the loss of readership. And when something brilliant and funny happened in my life, I thought “What is the point of posting it? No one will read.”
Then when I heard about NaBloPoMo, it was like a light went off in my head and I decided to work on gaining my momentum back, and with it my readership. Hopefully long after NaBloPoMo is over, I’ll still be posting daily.
Thanks Princess,
You’re right. It’s easy to lose momentum. You have to stay motivated. Don’t think that people aren’t reading your blog just because they haven’t subscribed or aren’t leaving comments. Even today, many people will lurk for a very long time before jumping into the conversation. I encourage you at some point this month while you blog to ask a question in a blog post designed to get people talking back to you. See who responds. Thanks for dropping in.