What the hey...

I noticed that NaBloPoMo has rolled around again. That'd be National Blog Posting Month, where you're supposed to post something every single day in November. Well, I already missed yesterday, but I thought I might give it a whirl this year and see how far I make it through the month.

It's been a long time since I really wrote a post on this blog, at least the kind I remember writing when I started, but that's not to say I haven't been thinking up posts in my head. That's a problem I think I have with a lot of areas of life, actually taking the time to translate things out of my head and into reality. I get frustrated with how long it takes, and how it's often not as cool as when it was in my head.

But there's another thing I've been realizing/remembering a lot lately too, kind of headsmackingly obvious but it's come into focus for me lately - if you want to get good at something, you have to do it. Practice. A lot. I forget because I have certain skills that I take for granted. "I can type pretty fast! I can remember where all the letters and numbers are on the keyboard without looking! How come I can't play guitar?" But I remembered recently that when I was learning to type, it took me a while. And my parents got me a game - Mario Teaches Typing. The game made it fun but I had to play it a lot to get good.

Oh my sheesh, I LOVE YouTube! Here's a short video of the gameplay. But was the sound really that annoying? ergh. You'll get the idea without sound if you turn your speakers off:


Same thing goes for writing songs. "I wrote tons of songs in just 6 months of college! How come I only get a couple a year now?" Uh, maybe because it was my assignment in music class to write a melody EVERY DAY. And if I did a chorus melody one day and a verse melody the next day, the rest of the song is bound to come out pretty quickly. duh. And even if they're not all good, when you're writing at that volume, there's bound to be some keepers.

So I think that's part of my reason for wanting to try this NaBloPoMo thing out - just to write something every day, with a definite end in site so it doesn't seem too daunting - with the hopes that by writing frequently on the blog, I'll get those writing juices flowing in general. My other goal being to try and keep the posts at short, easily digestible sizes, for the sanity of both me and any of my possible readers. I know there are a couple of you out there! We'll see how it goes though, the temptation is to try and update this with everything that goes on, and just write till my head is empty, but that doesn't seem very practical.