Updated after week two with link below taking you to post with comments from volunteers who want to be tagged for all or various Blog Hops.
https://markbialczak.com/2014/11/14/two-weeks-down-nano-poblano-time-to-hop-in-and-volunteer/
The first of November has its fist raised.
It comes a knockin’ on our doors right after all the trick or treaters have cleaned us out of all our candy on Friday.
Are you ready for the alphabet soup of blog writing come Saturday? I’m talking NaBloPoMo, popular here on WordPress and BlogHer, the month that we bloggers can choose to band together and get better by taking an oath to post at least once each day of November.
Last year, a group called that called itself the Peppers included my blog friend — and yours too, most likely, knowing Sheena of Not a Punk Rocker.
The group was led by Rara, who came up with the cute logo above.
Sheena convinced me to take a turn hosting the Peppers this year. Fish of Gold kept the theme and came up with this year’s great version up top.
I staged the photo below, which has nothing to do with peppers and has nowhere in it a mention of 2014. But I dig the photo of my old faux Remington doodad on the screen of my newish iPad Air with bluetooth keyboard to signal the start of a big blogging month.
I want you to join Team Pepper, to take the leap, to decide that yes, you can publish a post worthy of notice every day from Nov. 1 to Nov. 30. You have what it takes to write a story. To take a photo. To write a poem. To report what your children did, or your parents did, or your classmates or coworkers or friends did. To comment about a social issue. To share a big dream and recall a striking memory and confess an altering moment.
If you get stuck, of course we have Team Pepper prompts. Sheena has collected an assortment from volunteers from last year’s group, and the first batch is posted on an accompanying page. More will follow on additional prompt pages.
I’ll offer one personal prompt here, because, well, I’m the host.
Tell us about the last time a stranger really made you stop to converse in public. Set up the situation that led up to the encounter. Describe your feelings as you started to talk, chronicle the dialogue to the best of your recollection, and tell us how you felt leaving the situation, particularly if it unfolded the way you expected or took a turn that surprised you.
Prompts are strictly voluntary, of course. Use one, use some, use none.
Remember to tag all your related posts Nano Poblano and Team Pepper.
This post will be evergreen of sorts, the meeting place for updates and comments. As the host blogger, I’ll check in here daily during November to converse, stir, steer, listen.
Consider the comment section from here on out as your roll call. If you’re joining Team Pepper, tell us a few words about yourself and your blog, and give a link to a piece you’d like teammates to check out now.
This is your BLOG ROLL. Make sure you have placed your blog link in the comment section here so all Nano Poblano team members can follow your blog this month.
Sheena says it’s a good idea to register with BlogHer come Nov. 1. I will, and you should check it out, too. She says they provide plenty of prompts and serve as a nice meeting ground.
The idea this month, after all, is to find new blogs to read, meet the people behind them, and foster an environment in which all of us become better bloggers.
Here’s the link to the WordPress notice about NaBloPoMo.
Here’s the link to BlogHer’s notices about NaBloPoMo.
Here’s the link to Sheena’s Not a Punk Rocker blog.
http://silverthreading.com/2014/11/08/my-love-of-synonyms/ Hi Mark! Happy Saturday. One week down!
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Yes, Colleen. Way to go!
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http://wp.me/s28tjX-aware
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🙂 Happy Saturday Mark! I see you have a blog roll. I”m doing everything backwards. Getting to my comments before reading blogs….. 🙂 So I may be redundant if I am continuing to post here but should be else where. I’ll find out when I get to your new post. But just in case….
http://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/three-chairs/
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Still here, Colleen. I compiled the Blog Roll because I had a request to do so. I’m going to ask for 5 percent raise for the second half of Nano Poblano. Haha. Thanks for the steady linkage. I surely appreciate it. 🙂
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🙂 No problem Mark. So here you go! 🙂
http://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/she-sleeps-so-small-2/
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Nano Poblano – you are the peppers I’d been hoping to find in this crazy alphabet soup of a month! I’d love to jump in and play on Team Pepper!
http://weadmittedwewerepowerless.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/drinking-dreams/ is probably the best NaBloPoMo post to jump into on my recovery blog.
Looking forward to meeting you all!
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We are happy you found us. And vice versa.
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Hi Mark. I have been attempting to read everyone’s post. Would it be too much of a pain to have a blog roll?
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Yeah, it might be, Deborah. I’ll try.
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Well I will keep trying to read everyone. I noticed initially there were about sixty or so people that liked Nano Poblano. I do not think we having 60 people posting regularly. I am reading about 9. Which probably is enough right now for me anyway 🙂 Hope I am not missing someone. And I want to invite everyone to come and check my posts as well. Thanks Mark.
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Quick update, Deborah. I am in the midst of writing a Blog Roll post right now. I am going through the Spicy home page and will put all links in the comment posts there in one easier to navigate list. Then everybody can have at it. 🙂
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Thanks. Appreciate. Have a nice weekend. 🙂
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http://silverthreading.com/2014/11/07/no-no-las-vegas/ today’s entry 🙂
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Cool!
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http://wp.me/s28tjX-isolated
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And, as usual, I commented on the wrong post (the prompts post vice here). Joining a bit late. 🙂
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Glad you are here now, Angela. 🙂 Welcome to Nano Poblano.
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My, I like your new raven-haired gravatar, Awesome Justine. 😉
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Mornin’ Mark! 🙂
http://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/getting-beat-up/
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Here’s another submission. It did go through on Nov 6th.
http://wp.me/p2RT1G-Jt
Lucy in the sky with cubic zirconia
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Still sparkly …
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http://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/maklouba/
This time I wrote about food~
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Sounds delicious, Debra!
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http://silverthreading.com/2014/11/06/healthy-autumn-banana-bread/ Something tasty for today’s post 🙂
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Yay!
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Here is my Day 5 of the NaBloPoMo combined with Photography 101, I seem to for some reason to be verging in to some kind of weird free verse poetry, not sure what is going on with me, must be the flu bug, heheeh….hope you like:
http://eclecticoddsnsods.com/2014/11/06/photography101-bliss-nablopomo-day-5/
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Freestyle, Justine. Way to go. Let it go!
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I’m letting it go…tosses my hair around! Can yah feel it? lol
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Your soundtrack music is amazing, too, Awesome Justine. 🙂
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hehe thank you xx
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http://wp.me/s28tjX-panorama
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!!!
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🙂 http://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/what-i-know-about-parenting/ 🙂
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Hello team! I’ll be honest; you had me at “Pepper.” LOVE. MARRIAGE. WORMS. I dabble in absurdity and webcomics. I like my doomsday stories cheerfully and colorfully illustrated. I’m working on a few mad science projects this month. Check it out! 😀 https://lovemarriageworms.wordpress.com/
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Doomsday, cheerfully and colofully illustrated. May I quote you on that frequently? Welcome, worm keeper. 🙂
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Please do! Pleasure to meet you, Markbialczak. And a “Hairy Hello” to you! https://lovemarriageworms.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/a-hairy-hello/
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http://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/please-turn-to-the-gee-my-great-dogsledding-adventure/
Day 5 is complete! This one is about doggies.
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I will paw my way to it. Love doggies, Debra!
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Here’s today’s submission for Nano Poblano from the Excessive Gardener–Lucy
http://wp.me/p2RT1G-J3
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Cool beans, wild Lucy.
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Magnficent Mark….
http://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/love-words-wrapped-up-in-a-pink-ribbon/
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Best, Brown!
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😀
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http://wp.me/p28tjX-1pd
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Cool, Kim.
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http://silverthreading.com/2014/11/05/blog-hop-iithe-name-game/
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As long as we’re not eating peppers, it should be awesome! 🙂 Food allergies stink.
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No kidding, Holley. No rash posts needed for Nano Poblano!
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No rash. More like anaphylactic shock. Good times.
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Epi pen anyone? Hurry for Holley!
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lol. My mom has one but she’s allergic to bee stings. I’m good if I avoid peppers. More difficult to do when I go to New Orleans . . .
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NaBloPoMo is hard to spell. But here is my link to my blog 😉 http://chasingdestino.com/
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I’m glad you posted up here, Holley Destino. I’ve been reading your stuff for awhile now. You even told me a I was stalker a couple weeks back. You were joking, right? 🙂
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Yes. I meant it in a good way. lol But I was joking. So I guess I’m stalking you now. 😉 Also, joking.
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Now that that’s all out of the way. 🙂 I still like your blog. 🙂
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I’m glad to hear that! 🙂 Love it when people like the blog!! 🙂
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I just found out I should be posting links to my posts here, so so late, a little about me well…..
I am morphing in my blog, finding out that I love photography, nature and humour and all things a little geeky, whacky or just eccentric. My posts are a complete mix hence the title eclectic…..
I like to try and find humour in most things, when appropriate of course or try to think out of the box and surprise one….
I am currently doing the Photography 101 challenge as well so mostly trying to combine this and the NoPoBloMo & NaBoPlomo oh my they are tongue twisters and I simply don’t remember them each time i type them in i have to find the page to copy it from first lol, here is up until and including day 4 if anyone has the time of inclination to read whilst drinking a nice cuppa! I have not gotten involved in the blog hop yet, hopefully that will swing by my way sometime before the month is out hehe xxxx
PS my name is Justine
Day 1
http://eclecticoddsnsods.com/2014/11/01/weekly-photo-challenge-descent-nablopomo/
Day 2
http://eclecticoddsnsods.com/2014/11/03/photography101-home-nablopomo-day-3/
Day 3
http://eclecticoddsnsods.com/2014/11/04/photography101-street-nablopomo-day-3/
Day 4
http://eclecticoddsnsods.com/2014/11/05/photography101-water-nablopomo-day-4/
Happy Days!
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Just this once, may I call you Awesome Justine? Wonderful autobiography. Thank you teammate Little Pepper. 🙂
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Awe I like that name, can I keep it? lol
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Forever and never, it’s your’s, Awesome Justine! 🙂
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oooheee i am so excited, thank you mark 😀 I think I Just got nominated to continue the story ooooer, si there a word limit? lol xx
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No word limit. Go to it and have at it!
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hah ok and can I post it tomorrow or is that too late? PS can ij ust pick someone whose commented on this post of yours? Or is there a set list?
https://markbialczak.com/2014/11/04/nano-poblano-blog-hop-story/
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You can post it tomorrow, Awesome Justine. You can pick somebody off the main page that hasn’t been chosen for it yet.
https://markbialczak.com/2014/10/27/team-pepper-gets-spicy-right-here-nano-poblano/
There are many comments on this page by now, so you may have to go deep to find new Nano Poblano blood that hasn’t been tagged yet. But you can do it.
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Here’s another post for Nano Poblano from the Excessive Gardener
http://anthrode.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/the-marine-and-the-monk/
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Keep rolling, Lucy. You’ve got it going on.
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Hi Mark. I wanted to know about the points and vote. I had heard these mentioned and I do not see anything about them above. Can you clarify? Curious.
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Deborah, I do not know about points or a vote. I can tell you that tomorrow morning I am posting a Blog Hop II that will include a contest component. Instructions will be included. But I’ve yet to mention any specifics. So … was it something you saw on BlogHer? In another post? Anybody else on Nano Poblano who can help Deborah about voting and points, please and thank you?
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Maybe I was hallucinating. 🙂 It may be because I am reading so many posts lately. I probably mis-interpreted it. I did see points somewhere. I will have to keep my eyes open for it again. Maybe BlogHer.
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http://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/io-is-that-you/
Day 4 is done!
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Here is my post for the day: http://silverthreading.com/2014/11/04/aging-gracefully-in-a-young-world/
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Just joined Team Pepper! What’s my blog about? As my tagline says, “Life – How it changes you. Where you go. Who you become.” My posts reflect my own personal journey, the paths I’ve seen others take, and random observations. Here’s my first post for NaBloPoMo/Nana Poblano, and I’d love for you to take a look.
http://mewhoami.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/give-them-a-reason-to-live/
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Thanks for joining the team, mewhoami. I hope everybody takes a click over to your place.
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You’re welcome and thank you! And, me too.
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