Friday, July 16, 2010

I'm Gearing Up

I've been searching the web for tips about Blogathon. I found this helpful post from a few years ago. The tips I'm finding seem to range into multiple categories: how to stake awake, blogging topics, screen and browser navigation, what to eat, how to pick a charity - some of these things I'd never have thought of. Like, it would not occur to me to research browsers and think about which ones work best with multiple tabs open. I'm leaning toward using Chrome, because Firefox totally sucks the life out of my blog for some reason and makes scrolling super slow.

The tips about eating all say to avoid high carbs because they make you crash and burn. Good thing I've been eating a new diet that has me at 100 calories for each waking hour. I'm already thinking of preparing a fridge full of 100 calorie snacks to eat during the 'thon. Staying awake will be hard, but I think I'll be able to pace myself.

The topic suggestions fascinate me. I find I always have something to say and have to reign myself in with my blog. I don't want to spam my Twitter and Facebook feeds with updates constantly, so I try to just post daily or less. Also, reading other people's blogs often help me come up with ideas for posts. For Blogathon, I am already connecting with a number of other "thonners" so hopefully that network will cause some cross-pollination inspiration. I'm thinking I'll post about a number of related topics: writing, poetry, teaching, skepticism, editing, nonfiction, etc. I might even consider doing a few video posts, but I'd have to practice beforehand and come up with a quick way to edit and upload. Experienced blogathonners suggest making an outline of topics ahead of time from which to draw inspiration.

1 comment:

Patrick said...

Hey. This comment/question really has nothing to do with your latest post. Then again, it doesn't really fit your other posts, so I'll make it here: You are a woman and a poetry editor. Do you think women (generally speaking) have different tastes in poetry than men do? Hey (you may ask) why do you ask that question? Well, I'm a man and I write a little poetry. I've gotten only a handful of acceptances from literary journals and in each case (you guessed it) the editor was a man. You'd think the opoosite would be true since it seems that there are a lot more female poetry editors than male editors. For whatever reason, what I'm saying seems to resonate with men more than it does women, even though my themes are (at least on the surface) completely gender neutral. Anyway, your thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.