Ah… Pride is over for another year. So what now?! How to fill the lull before the mad Christmas rush!? Well… why don’t you do something incredibly crazy and off-the-wall and write a novel… in a month. Yes, one month. It can be done and it will be done – after all, November is National Novel Writing Month. Yes, literature just got a new extreme sport so why not jump online, register and start writing. There are heaps of tips online on how to deal with that ‘writer’s block’ and you can even post progress reports. So if you managed to avoid an aneurism this Pride, why not indulge in National Novel Writing Month. It ain’t as hard as it sounds! www.nanowrimo.org