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10-23-09

Blog Carnival (is that what it’s called? it is now!)

I just sent this email out, but in case I missed anyone who might want to participate, here ya go:

Hello [blogging] friends! I don’t know if you know this, but November is National Blog Posting Month, where you commit to posting once a day for a whole month.  I’m pretty sure you can do this any month, but most bloggers I know do it in November.  I attempted it last year (and failed) but i found that it was really good for me to write every day…soul-healing, even.  Being the planner that I am, I have been trying to come up with great blog topics to write about, and I had this idea….

Over coffee one afternoon, Jamie and I had an idea to collectively write a book.  Though this hasn’t come into fruition (yet!), we realized how many people we know who are fantastic writers. And today I had the idea that we could start sort of small…as in, one blog post, one day, all writing about the same thing.

Consider this email your official invitation to join us in writing about home.  Interpret that however you want, say whatever you want…there are pretty much no limits to this.  There are a few guidelines, because I need them and maybe you do too.

Guidelines:
1. Let me know if you’re going to join us by November 2.  Just shoot me or Jamie an email so we have an idea of who’s in.
2. Each of our posts will go up November 9.  That’s a Monday, a little over 2 weeks from today.
3. Within the posts (like at the bottom) we will link to each other.  I will send you all an email with everyone’s blog so you can easily include it in your post.
4. If you commit but something comes up and you can’t write it, please let me know so I can take your blog off the list.
5. If you want to forward this email to other people, please feel free.  I think it will be way fun to have more people who will offer perspective!

email me: spencertheduck AT gmail.com

or comment if you wanna join!