Na[No][Wri]Mo

[triadruid]

National Novel Writing Month is officially upon us, and unlike in previous years I'm actually considering participating this year rather than just looking on in horror/awe as some of my friends go through the ritual. Still, 50,000 words (even tag-teamed) is a lot of time and energy, and I'm not sure I've got that much of either, plus all the other crap I do. That's 1,667 words or 2 1/2 pages a day, on average...

otterkin had a clever idea with "LoLoFooMo", (Local) Local-Foods Month, based around cooking. Others sometimes leverage their creative inclinations into non-prose works. I wonder what else you might do with such a challenge?

• 50,000 10,000 lines of code on a project (that you're not being paid for)
  
• NaBloPoMo, posting a blog entry every day for a month...
  
• Script Frenzy
  
• Int'l Sonnet & Haiku Month, right here at insohaimo
  
• NanoWriMo (note capitalization), one piece of short fiction a day, as in nano_wrimo
  
• 30 pieces of art, each taking no longer than a 24-hour period to complete
  
• National Solo Album Month

Other ideas?

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

bubbledragon and I sorted out that what we might really need was UnGeShiDoMo (Universal Get Shit Done Month)... I think that would be something like "Any project is okay, as long as it's been on your back burner for more than 6 months." :)

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Heh, I like it...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Also, the first link in this post directs back to this post. Intentional recursion?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Nope, their website is just being hella slow today (quelle surprise?) and I forgot to go back and fill the anchor tag.

[hemilou.livejournal.com]

Hahaha..I'd so join that.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

NaSoAlMo.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Nice one!

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I think February is NaCoFiMo, National Costume Finishing Month.

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

30 pieces of art, each taking no longer than a 24-hour period to complete

Define art? Do photographs count? If so, I can do this one.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I made that one up without finding an example, so I expect 30 photographs would count (just like NaNoWriMo, you define the criteria yourself, except for the actual word count)

[danit4blogs.livejournal.com]

i think i can do NaBloPoMo, although it might get a little boring...

[hemilou.livejournal.com]

Knit all my Christmas gifts in November except for my father's blanket which I'm going to do in December. So.. scarf/hat set for SIL, scarf for bro, 2 sets armwarmers for sis, hat for ken, hat for his bro, finish a sock to match its mate, and a bag for jeanie. heh.

but after your post, NaBloPoMo sounds like a decent challenge too.

[stregalunae.livejournal.com]

NaWriMuMo... National Write Music Month or NaPraMO... National Practice Month (I know that I need to do a lot of that!!)