Yikes, did I really go through all of October with only one post to show for it? Not even a post on Halloween? (What kind of blogger with sometimes horror-related content am I?) However, I had an epiphany, just after midnight, that just may change my blogging habits for the better. Now, I hear that blogging about blogging is a sin, but this is something I feel needs to be shared.
Now, there is a certain writing challenge thingy out there on the internets for the whole of November. I'm decidedly not participating this time around, rather than ambivalently not participating like previous years. (Last year, I was psyched up to throw my horror western concept at it, but my user ID apparently got eaten during the registration process. I still don't know how that happened, but I took it as a sign that maybe I didn't want to continue after all.) This particular challenge emphasizes quantity over quality anyway, and given my propensity for self-editing (you don't want to know how many times I re-wrote this sentence), I would either give up entirely or have very little personal time remaining trying to meet that goal.
Monday night, after the Halloween festivities died down (that is to say, some left to make an early night of it, others left to attend the launch of the aforementioned writing challenge thingy, and the rest made repeated attempts to find, somewhere in town, a copy of somewhat-after-my-time witchy kids movie Hocus Pocus (And they call that a Halloween tradition?) Just before I drifted off to sleep, it hit me. What if, instead of focusing on a word-count goal set by someone else, I were to set my own goal in time with something I was already doing? And thus was born Arbitrary Goal Month.
So, here's the gist of it. For the month of November, I'm going to write at least five quality, substantial blog posts. This way, I'm not bound to any one narrative (other than the ongoing text that is my life), and I can self-edit until I have something I deem "passable." Will this experiment work? It's too early to tell (and, having pushed this very post aside for four days, I already have my doubts). At any rate, I'll be around throughout the month, with a few more words here or there. Until next time, have a safe and happy Arbitrary Goal Month!
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