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Creative Writing: National Novel Writing Month

Creative writing includes poetry and verse, novels, short stories, novellas, and memoirs which draw on one's imaginative processes to express meaning via imagery and narrative, contrasting with nonfictional types of writing.

What is NaNoWriMo

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.

Contact NaNoWriMo

For website assistance and general questions, please contact us via our Help Desk.

For press questions, please email press@nanowrimo.org.

For potential sponsorships and partnerships, please email pitches@nanowrimo.org.

For questions related to the Young Writers Program, please email ywp@nanowrimo.org.

"You can make anything by writing." 

                                                    C.S. Lewis                                                                     

National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month

 

"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.

 

 

Reviews of NaNoWriMo Novels

NaNoWriMo Award Winning Novels