Writer's Cramp - I've spent

Writer's Cramp - I've spent the week so far plowing through a couple of very large projects, which involved about 12-14 hours a day of sitting at the computer. I'm also working on a new project that, while insanely speculative, has some potential.

My blog output suffered, as you can see below.

I've written an awful lot of stuff (and, it might be said, a lot of awful stuff) in nearly two years. At the end of September, I dumped all my archives into a Word file, and it covered nearly 1,600 pages. And in writing that much stuff, I've developed a following at least an order of magnitude greater than I'd espected when I started this blog.

I'm not under the illusion that I'm an Andrew Sullivan, who can take a month off from blogging every summer and come back to an undiminished audience. But I do need a bit of a change of pace.

So here's the plan: for the month of November, I'm going to slow down a bit. Instead of posting 5-6 articles a day, I'm probably going to stick closer to one or two, hopefully good posts.

I'm going to use the time this frees up to:

• possibly, hopefully, start a job. The news is decent, if coming very slowly - and
• Participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a project that involves writing a novel in thirty days.

That's the current plan, anyway.

Come December, the blog will be back to its regular pace, or something close to it.

Posted by Mitch at October 22, 2003 09:24 AM