WebWriMo - A challenge
Some of you might have heard of the National Novel Writing month or NaNoWriMo for short. You can see their stuff over at www.nanowrimo.org
However, as webmasters, none of us is really interested in writing a novel. Thinking about it, though the old simian has probably written the amount ofthree novels during his life as a coder and weblogger.
So, why not harness the power of the writing month for your web endeavours?
A huge, insane goal and no mention of quality - What makes the NanoWriMo so great
In the senile simian’s opinion, most of the power of the nanowrimo comes from its absolutely insane goalsetting.
Fifty thousand words are more than most of the participants manage to finish.
Combine this with the complete lack of quality standards - the goal is to write a novel with 50K words, not get it published or critically acclaimed leads to a setting where the only goal as well as the only option is to write, write, write.
With this thought, the senile sightless simian sensei would like to introduce the WebWriMo, the
Web Writing Month
The goal is the same as for the nanowrimo, only that the webwrimo is spent typing away on pages instead of a novel.
Another difference is the cohesion. While the nanowrimo is spent trying to write one novel, the webwrimo is spent writing many, many content pieces for - probably - many, many web pages.
This is Madness!
How to do this? In any way, this project will be pure madness.
To keep it under control, one can take the hint of the nanowrimo experts and set a daily goal of two thousand words. This will provide a buffer for slacker days.
One tool I recommend is one of the new distraction free text editors, such as darkroom or Q10, which allow one to write and only write.
(The simian is particularly fond of the Q10 editor, as it is portable as well.)
Scripts, content and HTML - the problem of weight
Having thought of many, many different ways to weigh pure text content versus writing scripts or databases, etc and how to count them against the 50K, the blind ape has finally given up on it.
So here is the challenge:
- A graphic will track the progress on the side bar.
- 50,000 words.
- Starting on the 1st.
PS: (This article is just over 400 words long… and won’t count against the final tally, damn!
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Hello Emp - saw this mentioned at WF. Does this mean you will finally be publishing that article that you have been hinting about?:)
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I am in. Since today all my posts under the WebWriMo category are in for this.
@Art Deco - I hope so. I am itching about it myself, and was procrastinating hard.
Impossible to believe, but I’m going to take a stab at it too. Two thousand words a day for the entire month of November? I’m already 4K behind
Some of my content will be on one site or another, you may just have to take my word for it that I did the words. But I’ll try to focus on the abuckanight site.
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