I've been a little empty on the blogging inspiration side of writing this month. Which means my brain's been a little happy on the fiction side of things - so I'm not displeased.
It's the end of March and I think I can safely declare my personal bullet journal experiment a solid 'enh' experience. I found myself playing catch up and filling in my daily to-dos after the fact, which is obviously hardly the point. However in fairness, trying to follow through and just seeing the brightly colored notebook on my nightstand helps to remind me of things I want to accomplish outside of daily shit-that-must-be-done. This rating of 'enh' is staunchly attributed to me, myself & I and I don't necessarily think it's not a great idea for other people. And at this point I'm glad I kept myself grounded and invested a Christmas gift card in the journal itself and didn't get all happy with special tapes, pens and the like that so many others suggest. I'll probably still try to give it a go for the next few months, but my expectations continue to be comfortably low. I may end up using half the pages in the thing for working on my A to Z blogging ideas anyway.
April ushers in a potentially hectic writing time (for some). Last year I joined in a strange phenomenon called A to Z blogging, a letter a day (except for Sundays) to create a blog post. To my surprise, I stuck with it and saw it through to the end. So I think I'll tempt fate again and give it a second try.
And for those of you feeling bereft at NaNoWriMo being over, April 1 kicks off the first of two Camp NaNos (July being the second). Now I have not had mind blowing results from this less structured version of National Novel Writing Month (there is an argument that I don't have mind blowing results from NaNoWriMo either, but that's irrelevant here). I do like the idea of an invisible deadline to aim for to pad your word count on the project of your choice. I gave it a whirl last summer and didn't see much in the way of anything that kept me motivated to write more than I ordinarily would. I'm not exactly enticed to give this a go this time around, but if you're curious about what all this NaNo-this and NaNo-that is all about, here's a few links for you:
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