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nablopomo rules

Sun, 2006-11-26 09:29 — aaron
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i think the rules for nablopomo should be altered. right now, one post a day encourages, as has been pointed out elsewhere, backdating and fore dating, especially during the holidays while someone might be visiting to their grandparents for the holidays, who have no tubes in their house and don't know how to send an internet. more importantly, as i've done on this blog on numerous occasions now, it encourages weak (or at least short) keep alive posts.

to address this, for next year, i propose the following changes: (1) thirty posts in a month, and, (2) substantive posts, with a set number of words. maybe 100-300 words per post. not at the level of nanowrimo of 50,000 words in a month, but 100 words a day would be 3000 words, and 330 words a day would be nearly 10,000 words! then it would be a blog worth reading (or at least a blog that would take longer than an hour to read a month's worth of posts).

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on the other hand, it can be argued that it's not about length, it's about quality. but someone who adheres to that will scoff at a post a day anyway, so tough.

other goals could be set as well on a personal level. in retrospect, this would have helped my posting. each post needs to be about a different subject. each post needs to be about the same subject. link to at least one other blog in each post. writing about one's breakfast is off limits (tomato omelet and biscuits today, fyi). a picture a day. whatever. obviously, this wouldn't be enforced on a global level, unless we had nakiblomo (national kitty blog month). but it might help novice (and experienced) bloggers find or rediscover a focus.

This blog post, by the way, is 305 words long.

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