It’s November

… and it’s DigiWriMo.

I found out this event because I was looking for a MOOC I could enrol in.

Via Twitter (of course), I came across this “list of current and future connectivist MOOCs” (posted by @courosa). There were a couple of things that looked interesting, but the challenge was to find something that hadn’t already begun by the time I saw the list. I figure I am going to have enough trouble keeping up, I don’t want to have the added challenge of catching up as well.

DigiWriMo was on the list. It’s billed as “a wild ride through the world of digital writing, wherein those daring enough to participate will wield keyboard and cursor to create 50,000 words in the thirty short days of November”.

I think it draws its inspiration from NaNoWriMo, which I have never had any particular interest in doing (I don’t have a novel in me). NaNoWriMo has always seemed like a daunting, even torturous idea to me, but digital writing? I already do this!

I don’t know if I’m going to be able to write 50,000 words in a month (I’m trying to squelch my doubts), but given that I can write “in whatever form you see fit: blog posts, text message novellas, code poems, Twitter poems, wiki novels, some creative wizardry of text and image, and more!” I think I can at least try. I already do #blogjune, what’s another writing challenge, right?

Who knows, something might come out of all this writing. Lately I’ve been writing a bit on paper, and jotting down a lot of ideas and observations for blog posts and possibly even a journal article, and this might just help me put things down, even if half-baked. If nothing else I would like to try to revive my rusty blogging habit.

Anyone else up for the challenge?