National novel writing month is an amazing opportunity for aspiring writers to get noticed by a publishing company. It requires a 50,000-word novel for entry into the competition. NaNoWriMo offers a free program nanowrimo.org that accompanies the writer by counting words. It also allows the writer to access resources and befriend fellow writers during the process of writing.
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"You can make anything by writing."
C.S. Lewis
"To survive, you must tell stories."
Umberto Eco
"A word after a word after a word is power."
Margaret Atwood
"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." Stephen King
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." Mark Twain
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
Toni Morrison
"Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences."
Sylvia Plath
"Tears are words that need to be written."
Paulo Coelho
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
Albert Camus
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." Hermann Hesse
"As a writer, you should not judge,
you should understand." Ernest Hemingway
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also
the spirit of his friends." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
Thomas Jefferson
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
Herman Melville
"Half my life is an act of revision."
John Irving
"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends,
and then you do it for money." Virginia Woolf
"I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course,
when you finish something you can be judged."
Erica Jong
“Good writing is like a windowpane.”
George Orwell
“By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.” Roald Dahl
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
Voltaire
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.” Milan Kundera
“Character is plot, plot is character.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He asked, “What makes a man a writer?” “Well,” I said, “it’s simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.” Charles Bukowski
"National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with a first draft. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists.
NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered. It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. Our website tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and our volunteers' host real-world writing events in cities from Seoul to Milwaukee like, well… like nothing else. NaNoWriMo officially became a nonprofit organization in 2006, and our programs now support creativity and writing education year-round."
NaNoWriMo became a starting point for aspiring authors at any age. With its main platform attracting adults and its protected side for under the age of 18, it became a tool, a helping hand to start out the journey towards storytelling. It provides the writer a word count and allows him to create a schedule that he desires, at a pace he can work on. Just like that, one might create their 50.000 word draft in a month or less.
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National Novel Writing Month , The Guardian ,The New York Times , Kirkus
