Okay, so I’m getting now why it’s such a wonderful thing to have a personal blog. I get to post whatever I want on here! I don’t have to stick to a theme! I can write about anything that I want!
Taking a minute to let it sink in …
And now, without further ado, simply because I love cats:
It’s the end of November already - this month has passed by so fast, and I’ve both accomplished a ton of stuff, and not done everything I’ve wanted to do.
NaNoWriMo: I didn’t reach my 50,000 words on the one hand, but my initial goal was never to do that. It was to simply get myself sitting down and writing. So I must say, I’m looking at my official 32,532 words with great pride.
Here’s what I’ve discovered: for me, the biggest obstacle is the first step of sitting down and opening up my writing software. Once I place my fingers on the keys, the magic happens. I’m not sure why I have such a block about sitting down and just doing it, since I really enjoy the process so much. But one step at a time, right?
Starting tomorrow, I will have a new widget thingie on the sidebar, showing my word count for whichever novel I’ll be working on. I wasn’t able to keep going with the NaNoWriMo novel these past few days because of deadlines, and also because it suddenly seemed to me that I had to change the narrative from third person omniscient to first person, but only for the scenes involving the main protagonist. Who also wants a name change, too. (I’m not too sure about that one.)
NaBloPoMo: I was actually on track with blogging every day in November (despite what the dates on the posts tell you - I personally count a day as that period of time before I sleep and wake up to the next day. Blogging software has a more rigid, machine-driven view of “a day”.) And then I went and forgot to post yesterday!
So I very nearly posted every day here. Not too shabby, I think.
Art Every Day Month for November: I couldn’t keep up. Too many deadlines, and I also discovered that the writing took priority. I only did four pieces of work, and only posted three of them because I truly didn’t like the fourth one. I may do this challenge again, but probably not until the new year.
It’s been a good month. Ive still not had the time to check out all my favourite blogs regularly, but hopefully, because the deadlines are lighter in December, I’ll be able to get back to it. It’s one of the most enjoyable things about blogging, I’ve been discovering.
Joanne at The Book Zombie just posted about the Typealyzer - you put in your blog’s URL and it gives you your blog’s personality type!
And what is BelleEnchanted? ESFP - The Performers! 
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
I don’t know if living in the present moment is such a bad thing, though. I rather like not planning ahead!
This isn’t actually my own personality type - when I take personality tests I am almost always pegged as an INFP. I guess when I’m writing here I write a little bit differently. I wonder if this is true of most people?
Tags: fun
I’m a little blogging goddess today, so many posts! But today’s really been my first chance to get out and about reading everyone’s blogs and visiting links since before that whole deadline crunch thing happened, and I’m telling you - it feels so good!
I was just over at Lynn’s blog, and she’s got a wonderful meme up. It looks like great fun, so here are my one word answers:
1. Where is your cell phone? Here
2. Where is your significant other? Kitchen
3. Your hair color? Black
4. Your mother? Toronto
5. Your father? uncertain
6. Your favorite thing? books
7. Your dream last night? running
8. Your dream/goal? published
9. The room you’re in? office
10. Your hobby? art
11. Your fear? Mice
12. Where do you want to be in six years? Vancouver
13. Where were you last night? Here
14. What you’re not? unhappy
15. One of your wish list items? oceanview
16. Where you grew up? Vancouver
17. The last thing you did? read
18. What are you wearing? Clothes
19. Your T.V.? off
20. Your pet? Cat
21. Your computer? yes
22. Your mood? happy
23. Missing someone? no
24. Your car? outside
25. Something you’re not wearing? glasses
26. Favorite store? books
27. Your Summer? maritimes
28. Love someone? lots
29. Your favorite color? Green
30. When is the last time you laughed? now
31. Last time you cried? yesterday
But I have to say, yesterday’s tears were tears of joy. These days, they usually are.
Thanks, Lynn! That was fun!
Playing Ten on Tuesday:
1. Field Center
2. My darling FC group.
3. My darling affiliate goddesses.
4. My kids and how they’re growing and learning
5. My husband the Sensei Chef (ssshhh … don’t tell him I used that term. He really really really doesn’t like it. But it’s true)
6. Eating so many lovely, delicious dishes.
7. Finding my way back to writing.
8. Finding my art again.
9. Finding a contractor and having the renovations start!
10. All the beautiful little glorious moments that make up my days - things like sipping coffee while nestled in the comfy armchair, sunlight splashing over me; hugs from Dylan; talking with Ward into the wee hours of the night; having wonderful, amazing conversations with Hayley and Sean; loving the colour of my manicure, of all things; emails from friends; and many, many more beautiful glorious little moments.
I just signed up for NaBloPoMo for this month, and now I’m looking at all the reasons why.
Reason No. 1: this is a hectic hectic month for me, filled with loads of work. And whenever I have a month like this, the trick is to achieve balance. Blogging balances me out, because it adds fun back into the equation.
Reason No. 2: I didn’t quite make it through October with daily posts for Blogtoberfest and I really want to do it this month.
Reason No. 3: I can’t do this next month because of Disney, not to mention Christmas. Thanksgiving in October really broke off my blogging “stride”, and I’m sure Christmas will be the same. And we’re going to be in Disney shortly after (we’ll be celebrating New Year’s there!).
Personally, though, Reason No. 1 is more than enough for me. Balance, balance, balance!
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