Writing in November

November is a National Novel Writing Month. Not all bloggers write novels, though, so some people proposed alternatives:

National Blog Writing Month (also known as National Blog Posting Month) and the International Dissertation Writing Month. The former is easy - post at least once a day throughout November (easy for me to say with my 8.2 posts per day average). The latter involves posting one's thesis-writing (or manuscript-writing or grant-writing) progress on the blog.

Anyone interested? Follow the links and sign up.

And to get your juices flowing, there is yet another debate about cons and pros of academic blogging.

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