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.