A few weeks ago, Laura of Geeky Mom announced that she was signing up for NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is a month long on-line competition, where participants vow to write a certain number of words per day. At the end of the month, participants have the rough draft of a novel. Laura used the competition to get a rough draft a non-fiction book.

I liked Laura's plan and was thinking about copying her. I was having a tough time getting started on my own project this fall. But I ended up going in a different direction.

Hypothetically, if an individual blogs for many years, and while the blog attacks a number of topics, it comes back to certain topics again and again. Let's just say, that if one is fairly diligent about tagging the posts that writing a book becomes an entirely different process. One might cut and paste posts, arrange them in a coherent order, bridge topics, edit out the blogese, and find a simple, unifying message. One might have a book with very little new writing involved.

Just saying.