Many of you have already seen various bloggers discussing their adventures during this year’s National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo. During this most exhilarating event, people attempt to write a short and semi-readable novel within the span of a single month.
Needless to say, failure abounded. Failure is tragic yet beautiful.
NaNoWriMo is tragic yet beautiful, kind of like a purple pony on LSD. (Image credit: onlyAgam3r)
I did not participate because I consider it my civic duty to enlighten readers in such a way that positive social change might result. We have no time for fluff, so I am proposing a new event. This new event could double or even triple the amount of time people spend on reading novels each year.
I call this event NaNoSecond.
As a special bonus, people will remember the name because it’s already in their vocabularies… sort of. If we spread the word effectively enough, NaNoSecond can supplant the time measurement as people’s first thought when they hear the word spoken aloud. Computers aren’t important, right?
Could there be any better way to promote reading among people who haven’t touched a book since third grade?
Bumblepuppies 
I am still against the ‘write a novel in one month’ idea for a number of reasons… that being said, I just got a call from my older daughter. She just finished reading the murder mystery set in world war two London that I wrote for last year’s writing cluster-shag… (ha)… she loved it… that book, which, you may or may not recall, has a number of my blog friends written into it as characters… and is even now being edited by a certain Canadian head minion.
I’m impressed. You didn’t try to sell me a copy.
It hasn’t been published yet… wait until it goes on my book page. I am going to sell this one cheap. Jessica thinks I should do a whole series with this detective.