On November 1st, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will suddenly start crouching over their laptops, keyboards, notebooks, journals and tablets as they try to destroy and rebuild ...
This week, NaNoWriMo announced that it was officially shutting down. National Novel Writing Month, shortened to “NaNoWriMo”, was a US non-profit organisation that encouraged people to try and write a ...
The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Club is currently looking for new writers in preparation for the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) to begin. The club meets at 6:30 p.m. on ...
Seattle’s Gabriela Frank is writing her very first novel, spurred on by the challenge of National Novel Writing Month, fondly known as NaNoWriMo. “It happens every November and it’s a challenge for ...
Thirty days. 50,000 words. Challenge accepted. Every year, an organization called the Office of Letters and Light, whose mission is to “”believe in ambitious acts of the imagination,”” hosts its ...
An old novel shouldn’t exist. The thing is an oxymoron: A novel is “new.” An old novel can’t do anymore what a novel does: It cannot speak to living people in the tones and wisdom they know. In modern ...