I’ve been reading back over some old posts recently, and I’ve come to this conclusion:
I have a remarkable talent for generating copious amounts of complete and utter nonsense at an alarming rate of production. This blog is closing out its fourth year now and I’ve come to the realisation that if this random collection of pointless observations, flagrant time wasting and whingey ranting is anything to go by then one of two things is true: Either I really need to get out more…
Or…
November is National Novel Writers’ Month (NaNoWriMo for short). I think the ‘national’ part actually refers to America, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I can’t join in and do it better. The challenge is to write a novel of 50000 words or more during November, which is a pretty big undertaking (it’s an average speed of 1667 words a day for 30 days), but as I said, I’m more or less the king of spamming out large amounts of otherwise meaningless prose in a short time.
The thing is that pumping out three and a half MS Word pages a day is going to put a sizable dent in the amount of time I have to do anything else for the month. I’m not sure it’s something I want to inflict on myself just for its own sake.
I’m looking at trying Nanowrimo for a cause. I haven’t yet decided what cause, but in keeping with my previous socio-political rants I’m looking for something in the global poverty/food crisis awareness line. I’d be looking for people to offer a donation if I can crack the 50K mark, or sponsor me per thousand words written.
Last week saw the presentation of the very first CTC online poll. It was a phenomenal success with a whopping 6 responses flooding in. That might not sound like much, but for a blog with 6 followers it’s an impressive 100% participation rate. I’ve replaced that poll with a new one to find out if this Nanowrimo thing is likely to be worth my time and effort. If you’re so inclined, cast your vote in the poll or drop me a comment and let me know if you’d be willing to get behind me on this.
Otherwise shove it.
Garry with 2 Rs
5 comments:
ummm confession time ... will it break your heart too badly if i mention the last poll was phrased "yes! enthusiastically!" ... and that, really, i don't consider anything shy of five times to be "enthusiastic"??
promise the sixth was wasn't actually mine, though :)
Ha! I should have known. The sixth one was probably my mother. I'm not too broken hearted; in fact the only response I can come up with is 'not surprised'.
Although I am a little disappointed that no-one voted for disonogamaeia.
I can't see your polls. Possibly firefox's ad blocker is blocking them. I vote DO IT because it's fun and you'd be amazed at how quick you can get your 1667 words done.
You could, of course, donate to the Office of Letters and Light who run the thing. http://www.lettersandlight.org/
Otherwise Oxfam is always a worthy cause. Or the global poverty project
http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/
I would be happy to sponsor you if I wasn't so very close to living in poverty myself. I'm sure Mum would, though
p.s if you want to be sponsored and help out the
OLL, there is information here
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/sponsorship
I can't see your polls, either, so none of the votes were mine. However, I will sponsor you - but you knew I would. Amnesty International is worth a thought . . .
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