random bullets of NaBloPoMo
- It was surprisingly easy to post every day
- Some of that ease was probably due to posting contentless project 365 photo posts
- Of course, I still have a week's worth of unposted photos on my camera
- And I'm pretty sure I won't keep posting every day
- Photo posts may not quite be cheating, but I only met my proposed point requirement for posting 4 times in the whole month
- Clearly, I care more about my blog than my PhD...
- About 1/3 of the points I did give myself were for eating proper meals, anyway, which hardly count, but are still a good thing
- I averaged just over an hour of work a day (including weekends)
- That average is quite sickening
- Even more horrifying is the thought that it's probably an improvement over the previous month
- I still have the same posts sitting as drafts as I did at the start of the month, plus a couple of extras
- My traffic has almost doubled this month (in terms of unique visitors)
- Most of those visitors came from the NaBloPoMo randomiser
- Or from people looking for blogger beta templates (the announcement telling me all the wonderful reasons I should switch is back, so I'm not sure what happened to my categories, or why I have a field labelled "tags" now)
- Or still more people looking for that green lil turtle (and none of them answered my question about what the heck they were looking for (est-ce que c'est parce que vous êtes tous Français? Dites-moi, s'il vous plaît: qu'est-ce que c'est, le green_lil_turtle??))
- I don't think any of those readers will stick around (comment if I'm wrong! :) )
- I'm not sure what I was supposed to get out of NaBloPoMo
- I guess I started it thinking it would be good to write (and therefore be more thoughtful) about some of the things I'd been thinking about
- That was about as successful as my idea of working to earn the right to post
- Maybe next time I should set some goals for quality rather than quantity
- This seal wasn't available when I registered, but maybe it's as good a reason as any to have done NaBloPoMo (and I like bears, anyway)
posted by Lucy @ 11:54 PM
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Well, though, if we academics (or those of us who procrastinate, of which you *seem* to be *claiming* you are one, so if you're not I'm sorry I insulted you) aim for quality, it tends to be for perfection, which infintely reduces quantity.
Or so my personal experience tells me.
Hmm. Maybe that sounded a little yell-y.
I'm just *very* mad at myself, and feeling just a *little* bitter, and trying to help you avoid my, um, chasm. Abyss. Hole to the center of the earth, but not beyond.
And I forgot to congratulate you on actually succeeding in NaBloPoMo!
Well, I can hardly reduce my quantity much further before hitting zero, so perhaps it's worth trying for some quality.
I'm sorry you're stuck in a similar abyss. *hugs*
"Clearly, I care more about my blog than my PhD..."
I've been having this same nagging suspicion about myself...
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