Showing posts with label NaNoMoWriMo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NaNoMoWriMo. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

More Random or NaBloPoMo Day Two

Here we are at Day Two.



Just finished watching the Shaun Cassidy segment on the 'Best of Oprah' on the OWN network. It was one of those channelsurfing moment. It wasn't a bad segment, though I wished that Oprah had spent some time on how he managed to not go down in flames as had several of his contemporaries and carve out another career as a producer and writer. They mentioned it in passing, but Biography did a better job of covering this.


Speaking of writing, what I love about Shaun's work is that he does shows that not only tell a great story, that explores things like family, community and the absurd.


I first became aware of his career "behind the camera" with the series 'American Gothic'. I also watched 'Roar,' which is now more remembered as being the place where most Americans first saw the late Heath Ledger. I also remember it because Bill Maher tried to take Shaun to task about the show on 'Politically Incorrect' because a character on 'Roar' was of African descent and Maher felt that they were pandering to audience pressure to be inclusive on a show that takes place in Iron Age. Shaun, who was minding his own business, calmly corrected Maher, by letting him know that research was done and that it was possible for that character to exist and no pandering happened.







My own writing:
Two days - 1000 words so far. The working title for the NaNoWriMo project is 'In a Moment.' I've been working on how AG Rochelle ended up imprisoned and how Julian discovers and rescues her. As these are Gondal characters, the only clues are really from the poems that Emily about this.
I've spent time cleaning up and updating blogs. I finally moved all of my old NaBloPoMo posts from the old NaBloPomo site on Ning to a new home on Wordpress. I'll be getting the Blog365 posts soon. So now my only presence on Ning will be at the Bolt site.

I need to get going on the radio soap, which I think I'd like to do as a parody/satire, having really enjoyed watching 'Guiding Plight,' which like that great show, 'Soap,' pays homage to while wonderfully skewered the genre that feeds it.



So ends the Day Two Post. See you for Day Three.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

NaBloPoMo - Day One

So it's Day One of the NaBloPoMo thing and the NaNoWriMo thing.


A goal for this year is to definitely be more constant in my blogging for NaBloPoMo. The last two years I thought I would have one feed into the other by blogging about the novel that I working on, especially since I don't attend a lot of write-ins and since I noted in the last day of the first NaBloPoMo that I participated in that finding content is tough. The good thing about NaBloPoMo is that prompts are provided to help with struggling to find content. Though I must say that even with that, I still didn't really use them.

I'm pretty much going back to the "old format" where I combine random posting with posting about my writing. I am also encouraged by the fact that John Quincy Adams maintained a line a day journal. I can definitely do that, the Twitter master that I am.


In addition to posting content here as a part of the official NaBloPoMo, I will still be posting/crossposting at the usual places:



More Explore
http://moreexplore.blogspot.com/


A Writing Exploration
http://ladydayelle.livejournal.com/


My Blog (where the posts from the old NaBloPoMo site and the blog360 site at Ning are housed-I'll cross post the new blog here)
http://ladydayelle.wordpress.com/


My Social Issue Awareness and Action Blog (I blog about issues that come up on Bloggers Unite, Change.org and other current cause)
http://kitlat.wordpress.com/











"There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have. Remember Scrooge, time is short, and suddenly, you're not here any more." -The Ghost of Christmas

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Crazy Writing festival called November

So it's November 1st and time for me to participate in both the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). I am more than prepared to participate. I was please in terms of NaNoWriMo last year, because I hit 36,000 words out of 50, 000. I do want to come out this year with a manuascript to submit this year. I am going to write on the other aforementioned projects (the Angry Gondals, Gollumdas Monogatari, et. al), but my focus will be the reloaded Blanche and Rose.So it will be interesting to see me write and them post about writing daily.

NaNoWriMo:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/

NaBloPoMo:
http://nablopomo.ning.com/


My Blogs:
http://moreexplore.blogspot.com/
http://ladydayelle.livejournal.com/
http://nablopomo.ning.com/profile/KITLAT

Friday, November 30, 2007

Day 30

Well, here we are at day 30 of the "noble experiment. I can't believe a whole month has passed and that soon a whole year has passed.

As Forrest Gump once said (or would have said): " Bloggin' evr'y day is TOUGH."

I tried to do the every day thing and fell down definitely over the weekends when I just wanted to sleep or had other things to do.

Content. I don't think that I had a total shortage of things to blog about but I ran into time crunches, which made it dificult to expand on things the way I would have liked.

It was good to see some of the other blogs and to read them. I did think it was cool when I created a Massachusetts group at NaBloPoMo that people joined. I wished I could have been more involved there too.

I think that I did accomplish one of my goals for this thing. I will blog more at least once a week if not daily. I did miss it when I stopped doing it more religiously. I also took a step towards next year's goal of blogging every day. If I can blog 15 days out of the month, then I can blog next year for more than 15 days.

That's all for me and NaBloPoMo. See you next year!



BTW-for NaNoWriMO I got to over 32,000 words, which is short of the 50,000 goal but lightyears better than last year's 2611 and 2005's 500.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

November 1st

Today is the day. Today is the first day of the rest of the Blog Post month (NaBloPoMo, y'know). So much to do today and for the rest of the week. I have yet to begin writing for NaNoWriMo, but I will do that during ER...

I listened to NPR as usual. I am so used to hearing On Point between 10am-12pm, that I can't stand to watch tv on my days off during that time period because there is nothing on that I REALLY care about.

One topic of discussion on today's On Point was the fact that the network nightly news as we know it is circling the drain. It's true that I don't watch it much anymore, that is more of a function of me not being home at 6:30pm than lack of interest. Of the big three, I will watch Charles Gibson, since I watched him from Good Morning America. I never liked Katie Couric and I have no idea what crack Les Moonves was smoking when he thought that she was an improvement over Rather and Schieffer.

The day after Halloween is somber-at least for me. It also means 1/2 price candy...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

It's been a long, long time.

May 2007. That was my last post. I know many of the reasons why I hadn't posted anything-work and other responsibilities have reared their UGLY HEADS. I could use the same excuses for why I have not done any serious writing that was not business communications.

I am hoping that this will change in the coming month.

November is both National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) (http://nanowrimo.org) and National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) (http://nablopomo.ning.com).

I've participated in the novel writing-this will be my first year blog posting every day. I plan to document my progress on both fronts in this blog and my blog over at the NaBloPoMo site. I almost can't wait to see what I will come up with at the end of a month.

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