A worthy challenge

This blog right here has issued a new challenge to authors - can you write an 80k word novel in 80 days, starting in May?

If you email the writer responsible, Sally Quilford, with details of your intended book she'll stick a post up promoting your idea. There's no prizes for completing the novel, just the satisfaction and presumably some very sore wrists from constant typing.

Actually, 1,000 words a day is definitely doable, and a lot more friendly on the social life than the 'write an entire novel in November' challenge, which demands that you shut yourself off from the world for a month, emerging only to feast on dry crackers.

I might try this for my next novel, although the end result will probably be a mess of drunken ramblings and terrible prose. No different from normal really.