Day 12 : write a 100 word novel in a week!

Sent on Wednesday (I didn't write one for Tuesday)

Day 12.

As we near to the end of our write a '100 Word Novel In A Week' competition and you consider the pages of your manuscript before you, many of you are probably surprised that you had it in you.

Don't be.

Republic attracts some of the most creative minds around, and a 100 word novel was probably a walk in the park. 100 words? You've written longer emails to clients before 9.00am, you've written longer creative briefs before a conference call, and you've justified outrageous expense claims with more words (and more creativity).

But spare a thought for those who haven't written a word. Spare a thought for those who thought it was some arty creative competition that they couldn't enter, spare a thought for those who thought the 16 hour days they do meant that taking 20 minutes out to write a soaring soirée on solitude was unjustified. Spare a thought for Jeff.

These people, these colleagues you casually call your friends and have lunch with (if they take a lunch break at all), these people are the ones who need your help now. Your tale has been told.

Explain to them that their story is as important as yours, that they have the words to tell it, and you would like to hear it. Hug them, caress them, kiss their minds. Let them shine in the light of the love that is Republic, and together we'll write more new age hippy crap than we know know what to do with.

One day we'll look back on this moment and say "Yeah, I wrote a novel, but you know what? So did Jeff. And Jeff was just a goldfish by then. But we were there for him. We were a Republic. We were Republic."

[cue "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor, dissolve to the unicorn, fade to black]


Funt - it may be a drop in the ocean, but it's our ocean, so we'll drop what we like and we'll drop it like it's hot