I need to issue a disclaimer that I signed up to do NaBloPoMo, which in case either of my two readers is unaware, is National Blog Posting Month. It means I’ll be posting something every day. I know – I’m just as worried as you are.
I did this at the urging of a friend of mine who is doing NaNoWriMo, the novel writing counterpart. So while she is busy writing a 50,000 word science fiction novel, I’ll be over here writing 200 word posts about things like ants, bunions and barnacles. I cannot be held responsible for the quality of my posts, and if you want to just skip this month and come back in December, I won’t blame you.
I’m doing this in part to help with what I have previously referred to as my relatively chronic case of blogstipation. I often struggle to put the words in the computer, deeming them too unfit for public consumption. But at some point you just need to let it out, knowing that only 2-7% may be worth reading. NaBloPoMo shall be my blogging laxative. In which case, I apologize in advance for what is sure to be at times an unsightly case of bloggerrhea. (fact: diarrhea is one of the most difficult words for me to spell correctly on the first try) (extra and unnecessary fact: apparently I write about diarrhea a lot?)
I am also doing this as part of a larger ‘just do it and move on’ effort. There are too many things on my list that I am overthinking or procrastinating or avoiding. I tend to get more done and be more productive when I have more on my plate, so we’ll see if this daily writing commitment can motivate me elsewhere. However I just used 15 minutes of free time to take a nap on the couch, so I think I’m in trouble.
I signed up late and missed the first couple days, and then of course yesterday’s post dated itself as the 6th instead of the 5th (a downfall of being a last-minute writer in the Pacific time zone), so I am already bringing my standard train wreck flair to this endeavor. Should be fun. This totally counts as a full post.
Banana Wheels 
I thought about doing it too, but it was already the first of the month, and I hadn’t really thought out the logistics. Which seeing as how I have 2 deadlines and season 4 of the Walking Dead to watch, I don’t see it happening. My hat’s off to you! I think it would be a really good exercise in getting the writing juices flowing without over thinking it.
I’m all caught up on Walking Dead, otherwise no way would I bother.
Perhaps a fun challenge would be to see how you can creatively weave diarrhea into your daily blog post, regardless of topic?
Okay, I didn’t really mean that. I just wanted to use diarrhea in a sentence and see if I spelled it right on the first try. And…SUCCESS (according to spell check)! My equivalent to your diarrhea dread = “tchotchke”
Tchotchkes give me diarrhea. I’ll write a post about that tomorrow.
Huzzah on doing it and moving on! Huzzah for doing thing, in general.
Huzzah for all the diarrhea-misspellers of the world! I can’t spell misspell! Or successfully. Occasionally. Or anything else with double-single consonant combinations.
I went so far as to double check your spelling of occasionally just because I couldn’t believe it didn’t have another ‘s’ in there, even though I know you are a phenomenal speller (had to spellcheck that one too).
I always put the second ‘s’ in there. And then the red squiggly line tells me I’m wrong, I delete a ‘c’. Then Im stymied because what could possibly be wrong with ocassionally? I’m 40 years old and I hereby declare that I’m just going to spell it occassionnally. For ease’s sake.
I am not doing the NaNoBlogNoNMo or whatever it is- but coincidentally I think I have posted every day so far. Good posts? Ha no. Just the monotony of my life. Riveting stuff. Good luck to you!
Your posts are always riveting because you live in Europe. No fair. You win.