For those of us above the 49th parallel, November generally means the end of fall and beginning of winter (snow and freezing temps). For me it means lost mittens and hats, melt downs over outerwear (see previous year –> here) and a much larger heating bill. It’s painful.
Last year I took the pain one step further and I did the NaBloPoMo requiring me to write a blog post each day in the month of November or admit defeat (no defeat admitting permitted here). To spice life up a little, I started my medication (eight injections a week) and decided to drive to California, take part in the Disney machine and drive home again all in 10 days.
No biggy! (Bwahahahaha). I am not doing it again though, I’ve been there and done that.
So this year I decided to step it up a notch, I am doing NaNoWriMo instead and I am writing a novel. The only rules, write a 50000+ word novel in November.
Word count so far: 10316 of 50000 –> so far, so good.
Any ideas for blog posts in November? Any questions for me?
MK xo
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November 3rd, 2009 at 23:19
Okay, I have lots of ideas for you…
- Ideas for homemade christmas decorations
- Ideas for homemade christmas baking
- With the colder weather coming, how to solve the missing mitten mystery?
- Go to the mountains and do a great blog entry from there, make us all jealous
- Do your children do any sports? Tell us about them.
- Santa lists, how do your kids make them, do they have a limit of how many things they can put on them?
- What do you think are going to be this season’s “hot” toys?
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MommyKnows Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 17:34
@Justine, Thanks Justine! I do have some ideas. I am going to file away this list :)
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November 4th, 2009 at 09:43
DUDE! You’re killing me at Nanowrimo! Proud of you, though. :)
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MommyKnows Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 17:13
@Angella, Thanks Angella! What would really kill you though, is reading it! It’s rather horrible … in a quantity not quality sort of way. Then again, most Harlequins are like that … I like to set the bar low.
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November 4th, 2009 at 12:18
I dont blame you for not wanting to do the trip to disney again, once is enough thats for sure, good luck on your novel it seems liek you are making great progress
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MommyKnows Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 17:11
@west hollywood locksmith, Thanks for stopping by!
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November 4th, 2009 at 13:28
Wow! I can’t believe your tenacity! Good for you! And you have 1/5th of your novel written in 1/10th of the allotted time – you rock!
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MommyKnows Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 17:09
@Shannon @ Lullaby Baby Carriers, I’m up to 20368 … woot!
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November 4th, 2009 at 18:17
a novel really!??! I think I want to be your agent ;)
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jessic.B Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 18:42
@Nikki, and i can be yours! = )
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MommyKnows Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 17:04
@Nikki, The job is yours! Umm … Nik … don’t quit your day job, K?
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November 4th, 2009 at 20:59
What’s the novel about? Can we get a plot line? I briefly thought about doing that this year too but I couldn’t figure out what to write on.
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MommyKnows Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 17:04
@Safire, It’s a typical romance. It hasn’t been difficult to come up with ‘text’, but I’m pretty sure mine will the only eyes that ever read it. It’s that bad.
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November 5th, 2009 at 08:53
November idea -Fatest Turkey Competition
People can send in pics of the turkeys they are preparing and maybe even send in pics of friends they don’t like.
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MommyKnows Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 17:03
@Broke But Still Drinking, HA! How about ‘Biggest Turkey’? Do you have a picture I could submit ;)
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November 7th, 2009 at 11:53
Dude, anyone who participates in this has my vote. I’m barely able to crank out two blog posts a week!
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MommyKnows Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 16:59
@Amber’s Crazy Bloggin’ Canuck, Thanks Amber! It’s actually coming along more easily than I thought, BUT (and it’s a BIG but) it’s absolute rubbish.
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November 10th, 2009 at 00:45
Hey, great!
best of luck for your work!
Now may be i’ll make plan too!
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November 11th, 2009 at 07:41
Every day is raining in Poland..;( Best regards MommyKnows
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November 12th, 2009 at 13:28
I know the feeling about the rain as every day so far it’s rained here.
However I do love November it’s the calm before the storm of Christmas.
Good Luck with your novel.
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November 13th, 2009 at 09:32
oh disney…so what ideas do u have up your sleeve for fall/harvest craft ideas? do tell. i need something to do with 3 boys 4-8 years old before our US Thanksgiving.
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