What’s happening everybody! So last year around this time I was a new mom with an almost 1 month old, but I was determined to do something with my blog. I’d had it for 2 years and I wasn’t seeing any kind of progress. I decided November was going to be my month to not only re-vamp my blog but to also stretch myself creatively and as a writer. So I started my own campaign called #NowistheTime. I got the idea from NaNoWriMo, which is National Novel Writing Month. I knew I didn’t want to write a novel, but I wanted to used November as my get back on track month. So here were are a year later and ready to take on November again!

So this year is #NowistheTime Vol. 2. This is my second year posting an article/blog post every day for all of November. My ultimate goal last year was to make sure I posted each and every day with at least 500 words. This year, I’d like to up the word count to get to between 800-1000. Apparently there is research that supports longer article posts. So I want to do my best to try to hit that with my articles. So to try to hit this word count, let’s go into what I need to do to approach this campaign this year.

First, research is going to need to play a bigger role in my articles. When I was in school, I used to hate making sure I had the proper citations within my paper and I would always get points taken off for them. You would think that by now I would be used to them, but if I can avoid it I usually do. So for Vol. 2 I am going to try to make sure I use adequate citations throughout my articles and see if I can link back to previous articles that are related.

Next, I want to make sure I’m engaging with you guys on Instagram. This is probably going to be my hardest task yet. I am the type of social media user who doesn’t really post, besides something with my son, but who loves consuming information. So this will definitely be a challenge for me, but I’m going to try to hit this goal.

I hope more of you will jump on this campaign with me! It doesn’t have to writing or blogging. It really is whatever you want to do. I wanted this campaign to be something the Nerd Light community to look forward to as a reminder that you can do whatever you set your mind to. Especially in 2020, we need more of a reminder that we can do anything and follow any dream. So get out there and do the thing. Now is the Time!!

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