NaNoWriMo

For the last thirteen years, November has been National Novel Writing Month, the challenge being to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. Now, I have neither the time nor the inclination (nor, indeed, the talent) to write a novel, but since 2006 there has been an alternative: National Blog Posting Month, or NaBloPoMo, which involves writing a blog post every day for a month. And seen as I have a blog, and seen as I haven't posted anything on it for the best part of a year, I thought I'd give it a go. This is going to go marvellously well, isn't it...

Overambition

As usual at this time of year, I have a long list of resolutions. This time, I'm publishing them here in the hope that you lot can help me actually stick to them...

In 2010, I will:

• read at least 50 books. Progress can be tracked here.


• go to bed before midnight on weeknights. Feel free to tell me off if you see me online after that.


• join a gym and actually go to it on a regular basis.


• eat less sugar, less fat and more vegetables.


• update this blog more regularly. You know, like more than once every three months.


• do at least one thing every month that I've never done before. I've done this for the last couple of years, but always forget to keep track of whether I've actually managed it.

So, there we go. I suspect this is going to work about as well as every other year, namely not at all.