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Novel Month

This is National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. I can’t imagine writing a novel in a month. It took me 13 years to write The First Assassin. But my son’s sixth-grade language-arts class is trying: Each kid is supposed to write 333 words per day and produce a 10,000 word novel (a “novella,” I suppose) by November 30.

My friend Mike Long is also working on a novel this month. It’s called America 2.0. Here’s a description from his website, which also includes a portal to his words — you can keep track of his writing on a daily basis:

The premise is simple: What if liberals gained the power to do to America whatever they wanted? There’s some mystery, some suspense, and some humor–expect surprises. I’ll post a couple thousand words each day and I will have written at least 50,000 words by November 30.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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