is being written. As any published writer worth their salt (including Ben Bova, Issac Asimov, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and many other authors over the years in various interviews) will tell you, writing a lot means you are reading a lot. Period. You can't be a writer unless you read. It's like being a musician who doesn't listen to music. In addition, just because their periodicals aren't selling, and books aren't selling, doesn't mean people aren't reading. There is a MASSIVE audience for online fiction. Just search for web fiction on google to find plenty of online novels updating in the style of the old serial novels, getting thousands of people reading them. Oh, ha, thank you so much for your fabulous energy around the silly anti-nano article. It makes it all worthwhile, giving you the opportunity to rise up to your full height (as I call it). The funniest thing to me is the idea that readers are better than writers. Um, yeah, uh, what exactly are the readers reading then? Eh? It's like the seriously dysfunctional idea that giving is better than receiving. Do the math (Einstein didn't, he quoted this too.) Without the receiver, the giver is thwarted. They are equal. Wait, the receiver may be even more important, because the giver is actually getting a gift by having the gift received! Whew! And I can tell you that the staggering activity around NaNoWriMo is helping me remember that my business launch is not the end unto