oh well...

Here I am, sunk in NaNoWriMo hell (to be honest, today went a little better), and now I find about NaBloPoMo.

(What's she talking about, anyway? you ask.)

NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 crappy first draft of a novel in, yes, 30 days (I've got the crappy part down, for sure). No prizes, no competition; if you finish, you win... well, you win a sense of accomplishment, and then you have a draft to edit.

NaBloPoMo, which I just read about on someone else's blog, is National Blog Posting Month, the goal of which is to post to your blog every day in November. The difference (other than being, I imagine, less of a masochistic pursuit) is that this contest has prizes, which go to randomly drawn winners.

Over the top blog advertising strategy

I clicked on writingspark.com just now and heard a highly annoying buzzing sound; I figured there was a problem with the code somewhere. But no joke - there really was a bug: an ad with a buzzing mosquito, which you were supposed to slap (i.e., click on the ad) in order to win a free laptop (yeah, right - once you've given away all your family secrets and financial information). Sure enough, there was no way to make the thing shut up without actually clicking on the ad (or migrating away from the page).

Sigh. No one ever clicks on my ads...

Why jobless is better

It's an outrage, I know; I haven't posted here in almost a month. Technorati doesn't seem to be recognizing my posts in the new beta Blogger anyway, so maybe no one will see this, but I have something to share here.

It's a recent post by Steve Pavlina, who convinced me a few months ago that I could make money from blogging. I did almost all the things he told me to do and, well, the last time I checked I'd made $9.84 from Google AdSense. So maybe he's a complete snake-oil salesman after all. Still, the aforelinked post is a pretty compelling rationalization for not having a job, which I can appreciate right about now.

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Why jobless is better

It's an outrage, I know; I haven't posted here in almost a month. Technorati doesn't seem to be recognizing my posts in the new beta Blogger anyway, so maybe no one will see this, but I have something to share here.

It's a recent post by Steve Pavlina, who convinced me a few months ago that I could make money from blogging. I did almost all the things he told me to do and, well, the last time I checked I'd made $9.84 from Google AdSense. So maybe he's a complete snake-oil salesman after all. Still, the aforelinked post is a pretty compelling rationalization for not having a job, which I can appreciate right about now.