Dispatch from the #WriMo Zone, Day 10 #nablopomo

So what happened to Days 6-9? Off-line. My disconnected days went from midday Thursday until 7 am this morning. No internet, no telephone. There went the November BlogHer challenge. Sort of.

I wrote a Thursday post offline and kept on writing. For myself. So I'm going to post them too, appropriately titled and backdated for the days I wrote them. That's my plan. I'll turn off the the post to G+ setting though so as not to confuse the stream.

I stayed on track with NaNoWriMo too. Obviously, DigiWriMo went out the window, but with its more flexible structure, who knows?

Day 5 Dispatch from the #WriMo Zone #nablopomo

about this number…in mathematics Five is a Fermat prime and conjectured to be the only odd untouchable number, a Fibonacci and rife with religious and cultural symbolism.

For updating ease during or at the end of the day, I will list blog posts du jour at the end of this post. Speaking of history and protest, which I do on several other blogs, November 5 is also Guy Fawkes Night

Since the release in 2006 of the film V for Vendetta, set in a dystopian United Kingdom, the use of the "Guy Fawkes" mask that appears in the film has become widespread internationally among anti-establishment protest groups. The illustrator of the comic books on which the film was based, David Lloyd, has stated that the character V decided "to adopt the persona and mission of Guy Fawkes – our great historical revolutionary".

The Economist explains "How  Guy Fawkes Became the Face of Post-Modern Protest"

Also on this day ~ November 5 ~ in history: 

• George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ in history, 1994
• Nixon wins presidential election, 1968
• FDR re-elected president,1940
• George Selden patents gas-powered car, 1895
• King James learns of gunpowder plot, 1605
• Mughal victory assures Akbar's ascension, 1556

As for blogging du jour, the original work-around purpose of this series:

• UK @unisontweets marking #boycott as #academicprotest « @GdnHigherEd #NAWD  ~ Precarious Faculty (Tumblr)
• Precarity Dispatches — Joe Berry's November 5, 2014, #COCAL Updates #NAWD links 
• NAWD links from the #BigRedA is for #Adjunct ~ precarious faculty

Day 2 in the #WriMo Zone w/HT @Dogtrax

and until late this afternoon, not a single blog post on the horizon or much in the other #wrimo departments either, unless online banking counts as #digiwrimo... probably not what the merry pranksters of Hybrid Pedagogy had in mind with "anything goes."

OK, one down, "#Adjunct Reading Room: The #Precariat by @GuyStanding" on the precarious faculty blog 

And here's another (more of a re-post, links and image added): "Nov4 deadline for #adjunct hours/#PSLF comments to DoE « @KristaEliot" on the Precarious Faculty (Tumblr, one of a related set that included Precarity Dispatches and Adjunct Stories). I can't miss noticing that my community and personal blogs keep getting short shrift. 

And Kevin is still having more fun than any of us...

#NaBloPoMo workaround list: my Nov 1 blog posts

For I am not quite sure what reason, I have answered the November BlogHer daily blog post challenge even though I already signed on for both #DigiWriMo and NaNoWriMo. What was I thinking? For starters, I already blog just about everyday, some days more than one post. 

The rub is that, although I can register multiple blogs, the daily challenge posts have to be on the same blog. This workaround, as explained on NaBloPoMo Guide (unofficial)'s handy FAQ:

How can I have posts from different blogs count towards the full month's total?

To be eligible for prizes (during a month when prizes are awarded), BlogHer's judges need to see all your daily posts in one place. If you're blogging at different blogs each day, consider cross posting your daily posts (or snippets of them with links to the full posts) at a separate blog that you create specifically for NaBloPoMo.

Today I blogged:

• November…month of #writing—#edblogs…#digiwrimo…#nanowrimo & more - precarious faculty, 11/1/2014 (Blogger)
• Education Bloggers Network Supporting the Public Schools -  As the Adjunctiverse Turns, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• #Education must be protected from the forces of #privatization says UN #humanrights expert -  As the Adjunctiverse Turns, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• NaNoWriMo: Classic Novels Written in a Month - Vanessa's Blogueria, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• and, of course, this post...to get counted.

Plus several posts on A is for Adjunct, which shouldn't and probably doesn't count as a blog anymore than the usual social media would. I'd been thinking about about doing this anyway ~ "this" being a daily blogging/social re-cap post somewhere. "Best" design would be to follow +Laura Gibbs' model and pony up for a paid +Inoreader account with more features, I can just use clips ~ one set for me and another (others) for the blogrolls and social media streams.

November means no excuses

…#nanowrimo & by extension #digiwrimo advice + a timely (even overdue) rant from Heim Binas' fiction blog. 

Expect to see more posts here this month, and ones about digital writing. Even though I couldn't nano without a computer, I've never thought to make the obvious computers language writing connection. This year, however, I am taking a try at Digital Writing Month. Can't miss that connection. Is this then no NaNo? No, still nano-ing. This year it is double or nothing month. Why both? I'm not entirely sure but will explore the why while navigating the shoals of how. What about plot? T'm still working on that one. Stay tuned...

And now for that timely rant I promised. Heimas Binas wrote,