Posts tagged Like I need another project
Posts tagged Like I need another project
My main impetus for starting a blog was to improve my writing. While I think I’ve accomplished that in the 5 years since I started, I’d like to increase the speed at which I write, and establish a regular writing routine (something I’m definitely lacking/procrastinating about currently). To hopefully fix this, I’m considering assigning myself an outreach writing challenge project to write 250 articles highlighting newly described species in 2015. That’s pretty much an article every weekday for the entire year (with a few days buffer built in for holidays, travel, etc). I’d keep each article to no more than 300 words, and I’d distribute them taxonomically to reflect global biodiversity (i.e. 1 extant mammal all year, but a beetle pretty well every week; take that vertebrate bias).
Not only will this hopefully establish better writing habits, and allow me to learn about organisms that I’m currently pretty clueless about, but it should also draw some attention to a lot of new species which may otherwise go unrecognized. YAY Taxonomy!
I’m not going to call it a New Year’s Resolution, because resolutions are meant to be broken, but rather a goal, something to strive towards. Am I crazy to try it? Maybe, but I think it’s worth a shot.