Happy Leap Year! We're sitting here with this extra day that we don't have every year. What are we supposed to do with it? Write.
You have one extra day to finish your novel this year, so here are a few inspirational links to get you writing again.
Nicholson Baker in the New York Review of Books on the joys of saving writers from obscurity and deletion on Wikipedia:
"But the work that really drew me in was trying to save articles from deletion. This became my chosen mission. Here's how it happened. I read a short article on a post-Beat poet and small-press editor named Richard Denner, who had been a student in Berkeley in the Sixties and then, after some lost years, had published many chapbooks on a hand press in the Pacific Northwest." (Thanks, Ed!)
LitPark on why you need to keep writing despite rejection.
Watch memorist Janice Erlbaum explain how keeping a journal can improve your writing in my web video feature.
SciFiSignal on the R. Crumb and Philip K. Dick's religious experience.
Finally, our buddy Michael Calderone just landed a new blog over at Politico. Cruise his archives and spice up your novel with biting insights into election coverage in the age of reality television.
"Even though Barack Obama declined to answer the all-important "boxers or briefs" question — who says he's getting a free pass in the media? — the Senator's Us Weekly interview was a huge success, according to WWD.