PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo, Day 2: A Little Radish plans ahead

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Two days in to NaBloPoMo, November's bloggers seem to be almost universally fixated on one of two subjects: Halloween and NaBloPoMo itself. Most blogs I've checked out so far agree that Friday night was really fun but OMG how are they going to make it through a month of posting every day and why did they decide to do this again or at all in the first place? Which leads me to wonder, what is it about this completely voluntary exercise that incites such whining? Is this just customary throat clearing before everyone gets down to brass tacks? Was I a fool to think that just one post of pre-NaBloPoMo hand-wringing was enough? What kind of foot-dragging masochism have I gotten myself into?

The author of A Little Radish, today's kinda-randomly-selected "A"-name blog, calls NaBloPoMo her "month long, obnoxiously mundane, slow poke in the eye, adventures in daily blogging." Yikes! And this is from a woman whose son and husband were both felled by a nasty puke virus this week-- which means she, far moreso than myself, is a hardened veteran of unpleasant situations. I've never even cleaned up my own vomit, let alone someone else's, but I imagine doing so would imbue a person with a certain kind of super-human resiliency that would, at the very least, enable them to blog once a day for 30 days without much gnashing of teeth.

And maybe that's so. On day two, Radishly (a three-year NaBloPoMo veteran) becomes the first participant I've come across so far to overtly employ some kind of strategery-- namely, the prior scheduling of posts to ensure the fulfillment of the daily blogging requirement. Smart move, and I can't say I really blame her: "stuck in the house with two vegged-out puke-pots," as she said, I probably would have done the same thing-- and probably will at some point this month, felled by a stomach virus or not. (As an aside, oh man, vomiting jack-o-lanterns kill me every time! Also, Radishly, hope your guys are feeling better soon!)

Still, I get the feeling there are some hardcore NaBloPoMo purists who probably take umbrage with this pre-posting tactic. Are you out there? Show yourselves! Share your strategies! Scoff at us weaklings! And tell me it's all gonna be okay!