By guest blogger Carole Jane Treggett Call me crazy, but I’m finally answering the creative call of the wild and doing NaNo this year. In case you might not know what this annual event is all about, the National Novel Writing Month is an online creative writing initiative which challenges participants to write 50,000 words…
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NaNoWriMo: What Really Counts?
By guest blogger Glenn Walker I love National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, as it’s called by most folks. It’s a wonderful idea from a terrifically creative young man named Chris Baty. He developed NaNoWriMo waaay back in 1999 as a way to get folks who want to be writers to actually be writers. As…
Why Do NaNoWriMo . . . Again?
By guest blogger Glenn Walker When I was asked to contribute a guest blog about the NaNoWriMo, I jumped right in, just like the NaNoWriMo, and churned one out – and much like the publishing industry itself, I was told it wasn’t a good fit. Good friend and the queen of Fear of Writing, Milli…
NaNoCurseMo
By Mary Moellenhoff Sometime late September, I got the urge to write again. This was a surprise because I had been struggling, unable to write anything and had essentially given up. The dream had died. I am not sure exactly why, maybe it was just mental exhaustion as I had been through a stressful year….
All The Reasons Not To Nano… And Why I Do It Anyway
By Jordan Drew There are a million reasons I could come up with not to do NaNoWriMo… well maybe not a whole million because that would take forever, but there are a lot of reasons. Stress is one of the biggies, perhaps even the biggest, since everything about NaNo causes stress in the first place….
Inside NaNoWriMo: An Interview with Tumblemoose
By Judy Clement Wall Today marks the halfway point for NaNoWriMo. To celebrate the occasion, I asked my writer-teacher-librarian friend (and Nano stud), George Angus, to let me grill him relentlessly on the subject. He said yes because, well, I was wearing my cape. People say yes when I put on the cape. Here is…
NaNoWriMo: Bump the Mid-Month Slump
By Glenn Walker You jumped right into the NaNoWriMo full tilt midnight Halloween night, didn’t you? Your fingers raced across your keyboard building worlds, breathing life into characters and tangling them all into intricate plots. You roared ahead past five thousand words, ten thousand words and even twenty thousand words. However as you cooled your…
