Can You Write A Novel In 30 Days?
November is National Novel Writing Month. Do you have an author in your family?
NaNoWriMo. Sounds kind of foreign, doesn't it? Maybe it's a small village in Finland, hidden among the pines and oaks on the shores of the Baltic. In reality, its only possible connection with foreign lands is purely literary: it stands for National Novel Writing Month, a once-nerdy festival that is fast catching on with established and aspiring writers around the country. Now in its twelfth year, it has blossomed from 20 self-described "over-caffeinated yahoos" in 1999 to over 250,000 this year. The event has even begun to attract reasonably famous authors—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, and Amellia Atwatter-Rhodes, author of The Persistence of Memory are both NaNoWriMo participants. The idea is pretty simple: in the 30 days of…
Sophie Bull
2:08 pm on Monday, November 7, 2011
Sadly, not. I don't have an agent, and I don't have the time or concentration level to self-publish at the moment, although I wish I could. It's also an issue of whether the novel is done or not, and so far...none of my novels are -quite- to that finishing point yet. I do want to submit some of my short stories ever since my writing mentor suggested it to me when he felt I was ready. Right now, … more ›