So, November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo.  Every year the blogosphere takes a hit as writers turn their attention to pouring out a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.  Have no fear, I am not doing this.  I have no goals to write a novel, ever, and seriously, can you imagine the horror of me laying out that many words in such a small period of time?  It makes me shudder just thinking about it.  I haven’t even been writing on my own website lately, unless it’s a post about the fact that I’m not writing.  I know, I’m even annoying myself lately and I am dumbstruck that y’all keep coming back here every day.

I’ve thought about setting a goal for myself, X number of posts per week or month.  But really, that’s laughable.  I have a long history of being unaccountable to myself.  I can’t even manage to wash my face before I inevitably end up passing out face down on my couch at two a.m., there’s no chance I’m going to be able to con myself into writing.  That’s where Fussy comes in.  Mrs. Kennedy has come up with NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month.  One post per day for the month of November.  It sounded so manageable the way she said it that I immediately agreed to do it.

Of course, then I freaked out when I realized I was going to have to say something thirty days in a row.  The horror.  Then, just after I was put on the list of participants, I remembered that I am going out of town the day after Thanksgiving.  For a week.  With no internet access.  (I’m going to Orlando, which I’m sure has internet, but I will be running around Disney World and the beaches like a mad woman.  A mad and poor woman who has no laptop and therefore can not post from any where but this very chair.)  I’m a royal idiot.  In any case, I refuse to back down on my word to the lovely Mrs. Kennedy, and I desperately need something to trick me into writing again.  So I’m going to do it any way, just a little bit differently then everyone else.  I’m starting early, consider this Day One, so that I can still get in 30 consecutive days of posting.  And I’ll write out a post by hand each day that I’m on vacation, which I will post when I get back.  It may not be exactly what I signed up for, but the push is still there.  Make myself open that door in my head once a day for a month, and at the end of which I hope I remember that I know how to do this without the push.

Some folks have already mapped out a plan for the month, which I envy.  But that is simply not my style.  I can’t even tell you what I’m going to write about tomorrow, let alone 25 days from now.  There is so very much going on right now that I don’t know how to process, and I believe this is the primary reason I am not writing.  We’ll have to figure out a way around that.  I’m going to do this, and it’s going to be ugly.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

*****Housekeeping*****

So, do you think this sounds like a cool idea, but you have no blog (or masochistic need to write everyday)?  You can still participate by de-lurking and posting a comment on someone’s blog at least once a day.  I appreciate knowing who is peeking inside my head via this website, so open up!  Go check out the list of participants and encourage them towards this goal!

As a show of good faith I really am going to write the Month in Review for August.  It’s in the pipe, I swear.  I guess I also owe the one for September, and October’s is due in just a few days.  I think we just came up with three post topics, only 35 more to go.