FOOT ON THE PEDAL I am gearing up towards this weekend's write-a-thalon. The official website is down at the moment - I know it has been getting an increasing amount of traffic but fingers crossed it will be back later today. You can always email Rohit Gupta directly. The idea is to begin writing tomorrow morning at 9am and stop Sunday evening at 7pm. By that time you should have a completed novel (a trim 35,000 words), screenplay (80 pages) or epic poem or comic book etc. I know at least one author who will be writing and drawing a complete comic book over the weekend. I'll blog updates as I go (probably in despair and panic) and can be annoyed via email or messenger. I only get to hang with Jess at the weekends so I won't be putting any specific time aside for this because she's more important. So I'll probably take in a couple of movies along the way and wander around London if the weather is nice. To compensate I won't be sleeping much. I have assembled the things I NEED to get through the weekend: 1. Lots and lots of coffee. 2. My Tare Panda mug to briefly hold said coffee before it hits my system. 3. A pre-formulated playlist of noisy music. 4. A pizza delivery menu. 5. A baseball for throwing at mental blocks and 6. A baseball mitt for catching rebounds. I just need a couple of bowls of MnMs and I am all set. Because Rohit's site was down I googled the comp to see what the buzz was and pleased to see it's generated a lot of interest. This is from Fast Fiction: "This is why it is special. It started as a mere weekend binge between four friends. Now, scores of writers from more then seven countries including India, the United States, Norway, Ireland, and Japan, will each attempt to write an entire novel, poetic epic, stage or screen play, from scratch. They have a weekend --58 hours, to be exact. This includes heavyweights like Tom Bradley in Nagasaki, and Mike Atherton in London..." For the record I'm not a heavyweight - I'm just big boned. Mike is blogging to: L7