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Fiction Writing
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As this year's National Novel Writing Month reaches its conclusion, we wanted to spotlight some advice that you may find helpful right about now.
"You're not really done," observes Justine Larbalestier. "Not even if you managed to finish a whole novel in one month." ("Though if you did," she adds, "congrats!") Now it's time to start thinking about rewriting... well, maybe in a week or so, after you've had a chance to decompress. It's...
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November is National Novel Writing Month. Janice structured this week's carnival, the NaNoWriMo Edition, like the sections of a book.
The next carnival will be hosted at As For My House. Submissions are due by Monday at 6 p.m. I look forward to reading your submissions.
Carnival of Homeschooling: The NaNoWriMo Edition originally appeared on About.com Homeschooling on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 14:03:32.Permalink | Comment | Email this
From z.about.com
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The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) marathon has yielded 676,900,348 words in nine days as writers around the country struggle to compose a 50,000-word novel draft in a single month.
If you need some inspiration, check out our NaNoWriMo toolkit or find a NaNoWriMo homebase. Twitter is crowded with NaNoWriMo scribes, and the tweets come pouring in every minute. Here are a few choice tweets from harried writers as they toil under a...
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From mediabistro.com
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This month is National Novel Writing Month — Nanowrimo for short. A time for cranking (crunking?) out 50,000 words of elegant prose — or crap, depending. A time (30 days, to be precise) within a time (that lacks a foreseeable end, to be depressing) of widespread unemployment among writers, many of whom used to get paid to wordsmith. Damn, man. Those were the days.
But just because the jobs have gone away doesn't mean that the passion has...
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National Novel Writing Month began yesterday, as thousands of writers struggle to pound out 50,000 words in a single month. Last year 119,301 writers participated, and 21,683 actually completed the writing marathon. This year, writers have a number of freebies and discounts to make the writing process more exciting.
CreateSpace is offering successful NaNoWriMo winner a a free proof copy of their book. Scrivener has a special NaNoWriMo trial...
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From mediabistro.com
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"It is not healthy to spend so much time in the words away from civilization."
Which shows you where I got the title for this blog post, even though the original author meant to say “woods.” But don’t worry, it’s been permapersimmoned.
It’s week two and Day Twelve of National Novel Writing Month, 2009 and of my Nanonovel, The Tenor Who Came In From the Cold. I became a Nano rebel on November first; I started writing the book I...
From open.salon.com
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- My next novel awaits in the wings at NaNoWriMo (blogger.com)
- Video: NaNoWriMo Week One Update (writefromkaren.wordpress.com)
- Pittsburgh Metblogs : NaNoWriMo end of month stats (embed.metblogs.com)
All over the world people have taken inspiration from the folks at National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and are creating other types of month-long creative self-challenges (vlogging, etc.) so I'm going start my own and see how well I can join in by declaring National Write Something On My Blog Everyday Month (NaWriSOMyBloMo), this post being the first step on the journey.
I've been working on a very cool project...
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Epic: A work of 200,000 words or more.
Novel: A work of 60,000 words or more.
Novella: A work of at least 17,500 words but under 60,000 words.
Novelette: A work of at least 7,500 words but under 17,500 words.
Short story: A work of at least 1,000 words but under 7,500 words.
Flash fiction: A work of less than 1,000 words.
Novel: A work of 60,000 words or more.
Novella: A work of at least 17,500 words but under 60,000 words.
Novelette: A work of at least 7,500 words but under 17,500 words.
Short story: A work of at least 1,000 words but under 7,500 words.
Flash fiction: A work of less than 1,000 words.
