No No No NaNoWriMo

Best of luck to all those brave souls who will participate in this year's NaNoWriMo. I won't be joining you. I've simply got too much else on my plate during November to worry about getting 1,667 words down on paper every single day, or, more likely, saving it all up for the weekends. To be honest, writing a blog sometimes seems like too much work.

It's not that I don't want to write a novel; indeed I once did, back when I was a student and I had a lot more spare time. In fact I have an idea for a novel which would make a fine subject for a crack at the coveted title. But not this year.

Are any readers here about to take the plunge?

Decluttering

Readers (May I use the plural? Oh, alright then) might notice that the page view counter and the "defunct" blogroll are no more. I've been thinking of simplifying the layout of this blog for a little while, and neither seemed fit for purpose. After all, who wants to see a list of dead links and moribund blogs, or an odometer count?* So I've binned both of them. I will probably use the space to lengthen the blogroll and tinker around the edges. As always, the focus will be on blogging about my exploits in the world of stationery and "dead" media.





*That is a rhetorical question, by the way.