When I find time...

Just for “fun,” I’m thinking about participating in this year’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) project. I first read about it a few years ago and always wanted to try it.

From November 1 through November 30, courageous participants will crank out a 175-page, 50,000-word novel in any genre. It won’t be perfect, and it probably won’t be publishable (although it can happen). But it sounds like a good way to sharpen your writing skills and develop discipline, two things I’m constantly trying improve.

Read the What, Who, Why, and When and FAQs for details.

After reading, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, written by the guy who started NaNoWriMo, I was all pumped up. But “other stuff” came up.

This year, I want to do it. I have the genre and plot in mind already. A murder mystery:

A popular but controversial blogger is being cyber-stalked by a desperate loony. Then one by one, her friends turn up dead. What kind of stalker is this, killing the blogger’s friends? Will he come after her, too? Is the stalker even the killer? Just when she thought things couldn’t get worse, our high-profile blogger-heroine learns that the stalker has uncovered a secret that could ruin her carefully planned life. With her shady past catching up with her, the heroine turns the tables on the stalker. How far will she go to protect her life, her secrets, and avenge her murdered friends?

No, the blogger-heroine isn’t supposed to be me.

Is the plot too corny? Suggestions?

Want to play? Sign-up begins October 1.

Update (9/13): Am I crazy? I don’t have time to do this. I hardly have time to blog! My blog consulting business is going better than I ever expected, but it leaves little time for other things I want to do. I need a good organizer, someone to help me learn how to use my time efficiently. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Gotta go…

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The Goddess La Shawn has invited me to Guest blog. And so I give her the best FALLACI!

“I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.” – Oriana Fallaci

I went to see Oriana Fallaci this evening in what will most likely be her last speech. She is dying from cancer. No photos allowed. And while she could not have been more then 85 lbs, she railed away at Radical Islamofascim, the treasonous left and the impotent right as if she was taking on Goliath.

Oriana Fallaci – author of the powerful Man and Letter to a Child Never Born has a fatwa calling for her death and  is being sued by the Muslim Union of Italy for her book The Force of Reason.  Consequently an Italian judge ordered her to stand trial in Bergamo on charges of “defaming Islam.” From Prophet of Decline, WSJ hat tip: Susan D esq.

Oriana Fallaci faces jail. In her mid-70s, stricken with a cancer that, for the moment, permits only the consumption of liquids -one of the most renowned journalists of the modern era has been indicted by a judge in her native Italy under provisions of the Italian Penal Code which proscribe the “vilipendio” or “vilification” of “any religion admitted by the state.”

In her case, the religion deemed vilified is Islam, and the vilification was perpetrated, apparently, in a book she wrote last year — and which has sold many more than a million copies all over Europe — called “The Force of Reason.” Its astringent thesis is that the Old Continent is on the
verge of becoming a dominion of Islam, and that the people of the West have surrendered themselves fecklessly to the “sons of Allah.” So, in a nutshell, Oriana Fallaci faces up to two years’ imprisonment for her beliefs — which is one reason why she has chosen to stay put in New York. Let us give thanks for the First Amendment.

Ms. Fallaci speaks in a passionate growl:“Europe is no longer Europe, it is ‘Eurabia,’ a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for the freedom of thought, and for the concept itself of liberty.”

A Sermon for the West
Published:Friday, January 10, 2003

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I’m giving serious thought to preparing a proposal for a page turner of a book called, In Defense of the Southern Strategy: The Case for the Appeal to States’ Rights During the Civil Rights Movement.

I bet it would be hotter than In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror, by Michelle Malkin (reviews and critiques).

I’d be vilified, of course, and 20 death threats a day would be the norm. But what press such a book would generate, especially written by a black woman! I’d have to start small with a series of well-researched articles first.

One of the myths I want to bust wide open is that the old Dixicrats disbanded and joined the Republican party en masse. I know there’s a story there, just waiting for somebody to tell it. I want to show Americans who weren’t alive then or too young to remember that it’s not only untrue, but a fable Democrats came up with to try to cover up their own embarrassing history and keep blacks dependent on a large, bureaucratic, central government (see Why Courting the Black Vote Won’t Work).

To be “fair and balanced,” I’ve included a Wikipedia entry that’s hopelessly biased against conservatism and two articles biased toward the right:

• The Myth of Racist Republicans
• The Neocons and Nixon’s Southern Strategy

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