Maybe Amazed ...
Just a quick post. I admire Tobias Buckell's fiction. His new year writing goal, however, is astonishing.
It is agressive: 6,000 words a week for several months. As an incentive, if he doesn't make his goal, he'll make a donation to charity. How much? Five cents a word up to the 6k. So if he only writes 5,900 words, that's $5. Misses by 1k? Well that's $50. And so on.
What charity? His blog readers get to suggest and vote on where to send the money.
Words fail me. I think it is very creative, very out of the box, very giving, very participatory for those reading and commenting in his blog.
Amazing, I think. Maybe I'll be just like him when I grow up. :-)
It is agressive: 6,000 words a week for several months. As an incentive, if he doesn't make his goal, he'll make a donation to charity. How much? Five cents a word up to the 6k. So if he only writes 5,900 words, that's $5. Misses by 1k? Well that's $50. And so on.
What charity? His blog readers get to suggest and vote on where to send the money.
Words fail me. I think it is very creative, very out of the box, very giving, very participatory for those reading and commenting in his blog.
Amazing, I think. Maybe I'll be just like him when I grow up. :-)
posted by Todd Wheeler at 1/05/2007 12:42:00 AM
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Tobias is a better man than I. Younger and better look, too. For me, I'd just cut the check at the begining and be doen with it.
Aye. I'm hoping he'll make it to Boskone as his website indicates.
I loved Mr. Buckell's Author/Critic response FAQ on Rice-Hamilton disorder. (of 1/4/07)
Todd--Lesia V. tells me she did her LBB homework on "Paper or Plastic?".
--Camille
Camille,
Yes, I'm getting a lot of mileage out of that little story. Thanks again for posting the link.
-Todd
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