The Engrossing Saga of Mark Putnam (can you believe it’s in the “non-fiction” category? I can’t!!!)
January 9, 2008 by Basil Munroe Godevenos
A colleague (by which I mean fellow relatively unpublished writer who’s decided to use the power of Web 2.0 to motivate his career) of mine, Mark Putnam, recently did something remarkable.
He started a blog called “Plotastic!” and got a huge pile of people to fill out a ballot. It was a big ballot, and it contained at least 3 or 4 choices for every major, and many minor, element in a novel. He took the results, and in less than half a year, turned them into what he calls “draft zero” of a novel.
Then the crazy son of a gun turns around and writes ANOTHER novel in just one month! OMGWTF!?!?!
This guy is a freakin’ machine. Anybody who is the least bit interested in writing or extreme discipline (the safe word is “eraser”) should absolutely read his new blog (which replaces “Plotastic!”): “Write Damn Now“.
Read it!!!! And then Write. Damn. Now.
