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?

Dispatch from the off-line #WriMo Zone, Day 6

Today's number is 6, not as exciting or loaded with portent as yesterday's 5. That it symbolizes both ambivalence and equilibrium seems somehow appropriate. The real obstacle is not being connected. tl;dr.

Blame it on CenturyLink. I'm definitely not happy about it but helpless to do anything. The disconnect should be resolved by now but is not. If I can't connect by midnight, I'll have blown November #nablopomo challenge, even though I am now writing it now. On the other hand, the challenge is for me -- not BlogHer. I'll write off-line and post when I can with a scheduled back date. If that does not count for BlogHer, it still does for me.

The lessons of the challenge are to show myself I can still do it, train or retrain myself to sit down and plow through no matter what, work out my own personal toolkit (or blogger's sonic screwdriver) of tricks and fall back formulas for post. These posts are formulas. Boring when I go through the motions but fun when I get engaged and inventive plugging in the elements. Yesterday it was with number symbolism, "this day in history" and Guy Fawkes Day.

There's something poisonous in being so serious and always earnest. The condition may be inescapable on precarious faculty, but I intend to avoid it here.

November 6 in history

#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.