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title: "Richard’s 30-day Feat of Endurance"
date: 2003-10-30
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Richard’s 30-day Feat of Endurance

I’ve now officially entered [NaNoWriMo](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310153756/http://nanowrimo.org/), which is an annual challenge to write a 50,000 word novel over 30 days. It kicks off on 1 November, which is one day away for me. I checked into the official NaNoWriMo website tonight and I was surprised to see that 14 other people from Wellington in New Zealand are doing this. I suspect the majority are students, don’t ask me why.

As for my novel, I’m narrowing down a list of themes. It’s looking like it’ll be in the sci-fi genre. One of the themes may be the Two-Way Web, so it’s not completely outside the rhelm of what my weblog is about. But writing a novel will give me more scope to explore.

I will use my weblog to track my progress over the month of November. [At least one person](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310153756/http://www.cristianvidmar.com/2003/10/28.html#a157) is wondering whether I can do it (actually make that 2 people, as \*I’m\* wondering too!). I feel a bit like [David Blaine](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310153756/http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/D/david_blaine/) and his “44-day feat of endurance”. Blaine recently spent 44 days starving himself in a plexiglass box suspended over the River Thames. Hmmm, check out this quote from [ Blaine’s website on Day 24](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310153756/http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/D/david_blaine/week4/story20.html):

> “David Blaine has uttered relatively few words since he entered his Perspex home. But the illusionist has been demonstrating a surprising literary tendency in the things he does say.”

Well I hope I don’t have to starve myself to get literary inspiration!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/10/30.html#a139))*