November was National Blog Posting Month — NaBloPoMo for short — and it ended a couple of days ago. So, how did I do?

All told, I wrote 38 entries throughout the month. If we were going by averages, that’s just over 1.25 entries per day (38 entries ÷ 30 days = 1.26666… entries/day); but we’re not. The goal was to write just one entry every day and in the last month I missed 8 days. Most of them were Wednesdays (the 7th, 14th and 21st); missed Saturdays came in second (the 10th and 24th); and Sunday, Tuesday and Friday tied for third with one missed day apiece (the 25th, 20th and 30th, respectively). One of those Wednesdays (the 14th) wouldn’t have been missed if I hadn’t neglected to save an entry in advance for it.

Chalk it up to several factors: unusually busy days at the main job; days floating around the Gulf of Mexico without a reliable net connection; plain laziness, and so forth.

Writing is something I like to do, even if my efforts are a bit hackneyed at times. And I imagine that those of you with weblogs of your own like to do the same thing.

That said, I signed up for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) a couple of days ago. The idea was inspired by NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), but requires a little less effort in the sense that there are no word counts involved; just one blog post per day, every day, for the month of November.

My goal in this is twofold. First, to write a quality post every day; something that engages my readers (all three of you) and (hopefully) elicits comments. (Not that I’m a comment whore. If I was, I’d be posting nothing but naughty photos of myself… and those wouldn’t be very flattering.) Second, to keep from breaking the chain.

I do have a few entries in the hopper that I haven’t finished yet, including that 100 More Things list I have yet to even start.

It also just occurred to me that I could turn this into a charitable fund raising thing. I’ll have to think that one through, though.