// November 29th, 2009 // 6 Comments » // Challenges, NaBloPoMo, November 2009
November is cold, dark, and dreary – on this side of the hemisphere, anyway. I like Australian weather. Everything gets dark stupidly early, it rains more, and my tonsils give in easier to all the viruses floating about (because you really wanted that image in your head). Generally, it’s a crap month, filled with failing portable heaters and limbs that feel like they’re about to fall off.
The internet seeks to fix this by filling it with events with strange names.
There’s NaBloPoMo (30 blog posts in 30 days), which is why I’m writing a blog post now. I CAN’T FAIL ON THE 29TH DAY!
The carbon copy of that is NaBloWriMo, which appears to do the same thing. >.>
…And these two are based on NaNoWriMo, where you write a novel in 30 days instead. I didn’t do it this year, although I did say I would attempt it (and, er, didn’t).
Last week, I also made a half-hearted attempt to take part in IComLeavWe, where I attempted to leave comments on other participants’ blogs, that were largely about infertility and adoption. I do not know anything about either, which made the whole thing a major fail on my part.
Whilst these online events are fun, I wish they’d make shorter names so that I wouldn’t have to abuse my shift key so much.
A typical comment: “Hi, I’m doing NaBloPoMo too (but not NaBloWriMo)! I might do NaNoWriMo this year, but I think I won’t have time for it because IComLeavWe is on towards the end of the month…”
*flails*
