I came across this rather strange acronym looking rather like NaNoWriMo this week, it was imperative I look it up. They are both interesting words, NaNoWriMo means National November Writing Month while NaBloPoMo is the same but to do with writing blog posts.

NaNoWriMo is all about stretching yourself as a writer and making yourself write 50,000 words in the month of November while NaBloPoMo encourages you to write every day of the month. There are websites out there where you can log in and show off your writing, getting daily encouragement from people all around the world, you can get hints and tips about stretching yourself to actually reach the word count.

With NaNoWriMo it’s all about reaching the word limit or going beyond it, it’s not as much about having good writing as it is about stretching yourself as a writer and writing more in a short time than you’ve ever written before.

I’ve never contemplated NaNoWriMo as I don’t think I have the stamina or the amount of words within me to write that consistently or that long. If circumstances were different and I’d heard about NaBloPoMo early enough I would be attempting it now as I think that is within my reach. I already try to blog Monday to Friday so it’s not such a big step to include the weekends and try to ensure I don’t miss any days. Anyway, I don’t think it’s such a good idea right now, not as I’m doing two courses and I’m about to go to NZ on Saturday week. There is always next year!