NaStuPoMo: National Stupid Posts Month

[vovat]

I did the NaNoWriMo thing last year (writing an Oz manuscript, of course, since that seems to be about all the fiction I write nowadays), but I'm not participating this year. I probably should get back to working on my story from last year, though. I think it had some potential. And now there are a bunch of other National Do-Stuff-In-November things inspired by that. NaBloPoMo sounds kind of appealing, but announcing that I'd do that would pretty much just be setting myself up for failure. Still, maybe I should at least try, on an unofficial level, to post something every day this month. Of course, that would result in a lot of short, hastily dashed off entries that don't spawn any comments. But then, a lot of my longer, carefully planned out entries don't get comments either, and one I didn't really put any work into not getting comments is much less disappointing, isn't it?

Someone on the train the other day was talking about Voodoo. Unfortunately, I couldn't hear it very well, especially once the train started moving. I did hear her say something about the goddess Erzulie and sympathetic magic.

After my problems with my right big toe, now my left big toe has started hurting. Come on, what are the odds that this would happen twice in one year? Must be my shoes or something.

Comments

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

NaStuPoMo is easier to say than any of the others, actually. And it'd probably also have more interesting results.

Idaknow, NaNoWriMo always makes me grouchy, a) because here's all these people scribbling away at novels when I feel like I can't work on my novels until I finish the One Book Manual, which is always due at the beginning of December, and I have enough trouble making time to do THAT; and b) it just serves to remind me how long I HAVE been working on all my novels-in-progress, and the fact that I was exactly the same amount of far along with Ian Schafer last year at this time as I am now. Granted, I gave birth in that time period, but still; and c) okay, I didn't really have a C, it just felt like I did. Really the first two reasons just multiply themselves over and over.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

NaStuPoMo is easier to say than any of the others, actually. And it'd probably also have more interesting results.

Yeah, quite possibly. I actually have a lot of incomplete posts saved, so I doubt I'll run out of stuff to say in the near future. And when I do, I can just say what I had for breakfast or something.

here's all these people scribbling away at novels when I feel like I can't work on my novels until I finish the One Book Manual, which is always due at the beginning of December, and I have enough trouble making time to do THAT

Yeah, I know what you mean. I have other months that tend to be much less busy than November. But then, I don't see why everyone should have to do the NaNoWriMo thing in the same month anyway.