by Erica Mullenix | Nov 9, 2012 | BlogHer, NaBloPoMo, YeahWrite
Mix it up! My kids’ schools celebrate the concept of making new friends and meeting new people once a year on Mix It Up Day by offering t-shirts, gift cards and other prizes during lunch for kids willing to share the lunch period with other kids they’ve...
by Erica Mullenix | Nov 5, 2012 | BlogHer, NaBloPoMo, YeahWrite
Hey, hey, I didn’t skip writing on Day 4. I just didn’t have anything new to say after posting our rowmies and columnites, plus I’m still going strong over at my personal blog by digging through the archives of my old blog and publishing...
by Erica Mullenix | Nov 3, 2012 | BlogHer, NaBloPoMo, YeahWrite
Day 2 in review We grew a little more slowly on Day 2 than Day 1, adding eight blogs to the original 42. And that’s okay. I spent the day figuring out how to make this project work the yeah write way. How can we combine the writing every day aspect of NaBlo with...
by Erica Mullenix | Nov 2, 2012 | BlogHer, NaBloPoMo, YeahWrite
So how did it go on Day 1? By midnight, we had 42 blogs added to the NaBloPoMo grid and, throughout that day, I’d probably typed the amalgam NaBloPoMo at least 600 times. Why? Because in 2006 when this thing first started, the grand prize was a custom blog...
by Erica Mullenix | Nov 1, 2012 | BlogHer, NaBloPoMo, YeahWrite
Guess I’ve figured out if I’m gonna host this thing daily, I gotta have a post up first thing in the morning. That’s the only way the grid can be ready for any newcomers or passers-by. Meaning this is probably my fourth yeah write blog post written...
by Erica Mullenix | Oct 31, 2012 | BlogHer, NaBloPoMo, YeahWrite
National Blog Posting Month NaBloPoMo started in 2006 on a personal blog as an goofy companion to NaNoWriMo. The premise was basically: good lord, who has the time or the inclination to write an entire novel in one month, but we as bloggers can certainly write some...