So here we are again, the annual National Blog Post Month frenzy. Well, every month is apparently NaBloPoMo, but November is *the* month for it.
If you’ve been around the blogging block, you know it’s something bloggers do to keep their creativity flowing, or to reinvigorate their blog. the idea is to have a blog post every day for the whole month. It started out several years ago as an exercise (and offshoot/parody of NaNoWriMo) and now BlogHer has purchased the rights to it and organizes it.
I would be doing it without BlogHer – my first attempt launched back in 2011 when I was reading bunch of other bloggers and wound up getting inspired. Having started my blog in 2009 I spent a while reading other blogs figuring out what I was doing. 2011 was the first time I really noticed NaBloPoMo, though I am sure I had come across it in 2010. I started out just jumping on the bandwagon of what some bloggers I admired were doing.
Here I am, once again, doing NaBloPoMo, and I feel like the only dad blogger again.
I also feel like one of the few who actually try and post every day. I take the time to look at the blogroll of those participating and check out some of the blogs. Far too many of them don’t make it, and it seems a significant percentage do not even try. Maybe if BlogHer didn’t offer prizes people wouldn’t sign up to participate without meaning to actually participate. Yes, I do harbor a grudge against the bloggers who sign up and don’t actually try. I shouldn’t, but I do. Some sign up and don’t even have an active blog, they are clearly in it for the prizes.
I’m not in it for the prizes. I’m in it for the blog posts.
Then again, let’s see if I win anything.