National Novel Writing Month | National Novel Writing Month
Apr.29.2013
We first met Chris Baty about a decade ago, when Arielle agented his book No Plot, No Problem: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. We watched as he built this strange, beautiful community of lunatics and dreamers who, every November, write a 50,000 word book in 30...
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Mar.13.2013
One of the things that separate amateurs from professionals is their ability to rewrite their novels, to transform them from beautiful but unshaped pieces of clay into glorious works of art that take the breath away.
This transformation doesn’t happen magically. It is the result of numerous edits....
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Mar.05.2013
Nanowrimo Pitchaplooza announces 25 pitches: c if u got chosen! vote 4 yr favorite http://www.thebookdoctors.com/category/2013-nanowrimo
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Jan.07.2013
January 23: everything u need 2 know 2 get your novel the love it deserves: http://bit.ly/TYukI3
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Nov.30.2012
Okay, NaNoWriMo folks, are you almost there? Are you sweating it the last few hours, sprinting toward the 50,000-word finish line? I'll come right out and say I'm not. I cannot imagine sitting down one day to start writing a book and, thirty days later, finishing a 50,000-word novel. But that is...
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Nov.28.2012
Every month is NaNoWriMo around here.
I don't need special events and hoopla to compel myself to sit at a desk and commence my magnum opus. Nope, I've been putting pen to paper for a quarter of a century now, day in and day out. That's what real writers do, ladies and gentlemen. They don't talk...
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Nov.04.2012
It’s National Novel Writing Month — NaNoWriMo — and I’m supposed to be writing my novel right now, even as falling leaves continue to blanket my front yard and sidewalk and my garden waits for me to mix compost into the beds and cover them with the aforementioned leaves.
I’ve got 2,000 words to...
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Feb.22.2012
NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza: 1 week left. Send us your pitches b4 it's 2 late! http://bit.ly/ABm9sF
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Nov.01.2011
Every time November rolls around the pretenders and wannabe writers haul out their "Twilight" pencil cases and "Harry Potter" binders and vow to commence work on their literary masterpiece. The one they have on their head. The one that would be an instant bestseller...if they could just...
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Oct.31.2011
In a few short hours it will be November 1st, 2011. What does that mean for me? It means it's time to get my writing fingers on! NaNoWriMo is here! What is NaNoWriMo? It is a month long writing adventure. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days during the month of November. Last year I...
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