With the consignment to the past of the previous chapter, we now turn our attention to a new endeavour: a month long project entitled One Article Per Day (OAPD). It's a fairly self-explanatory project, but, before we begin, I think a few ground rules and concessions need to be made.
First of all, until now it has always been assumed that the day (unit of time) runs from 00:00.00 until 23:59.59, thus any article published after 23:59.59 of one day, is to be considered a part of the following day. For this chapter, that isn't to be so: we will consider the day to consist of the hours when I am awake, with the night making up the remainder. Thus, if I find myself up and blogging after midnight, the published article will be considered a part of that same day on which I awoke, not the following one. This is the preferred situation. However, if I happen to be blogging and manage to publish an article before midnight (at, say, 23:57) but have yet another article in mind for the following day, I will be entitled to publish it after midnight - with it thus being then the following day in traditional timekeeping - and it will legitimately count as my One Article for that following day.
'Twill be something of a challenge for me (since my current form is usually of one article per week), and it'll be interesting to see just how far the articles disintegrate or improve in quality, throughout these concentrated thirty-one days. They'll unlikely be any great length, and some days may only yield a sentence or two, but let us stick by it, and remember that the important thing is the publishing of one article every day.
The project itself begins with this very article, although, as you may have noticed, I have been blogging each day for the past three articles (not including this one). So I could pull a swift one and count those previous three as a part of this project, but that would really be cheating, and so it must begin with this.
Wish us luck, and let us see how it progresses!
