A sort of anti-NaNoWriMo

Many of you know that my reservations about NaNoWriMo include the pace (1500+ wpd is a pretty brutal rate for people not used to it) and the goal (a 50K novel isn't saleable, at least in my genre).

If you're interested in having a public boot applied to your ass, but you share my reservations, try this on for size: Novel in 90. Short form is 750 words a day for 90 days, for a goal of 67,500 words (which need not be the end point of the novel). It's the brainchild of Elizabeth Bear, and it's growing like rather scary kudzu, but over there you'll find everything from professionals (including her and me) to people who have never written a novel in their lives. She's taken down the bit in the profile that said in large letters "WE WILL MOCK YOU IF YOU FAIL," but the idea is to prod yourself into productivity through public accountability.

I know some of my friends are looking for help in motivating themselves, so if you count yourself among that number, go over there and sign up.

I will mock you if you don't. ^_^

Order now!

Want to get on an FBI watchlist?

(Those of you who aren't already, that is. Which might be several of you, for a variety of reasons.)

There is now a website for Glorifying Terrorism, Farah Mendlesohn's anthology of politically provocative fiction. It's a British publication, so my USAian friends will have to get it shipped, but there's a PayPal button up now, and Farah tells us it's going to press in the next two weeks.

And really, it only breaks a British law, not an American one (yet). So you have no reason not to buy it and support the cause of free speech.