{"id":8592,"date":"2019-10-22T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=8592"},"modified":"2019-10-21T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T03:38:16","slug":"8592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/8592\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo-Is it for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Have you heard of NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNaNoWriMo believes in the transformational power of creativity. We provide the structure, community, and encouragement to help people find their voices, achieve creative goals, and build new worlds\u2014on and off the page.\u201d \u2014NaNoWriMo website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A month of NaNoWriMo can lead to a lifetime of better writing.” Grant Faulkner<\/a>, founder and creator of NaNoWriMo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NaNoWriMo<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand-new novel \u2014 but that’s not all that NaNoWriMo is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NaNoWriMo is a nonprofit organization that supports writing fluency and education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a teaching tool, it’s a curriculum, and its programs\nrun year-round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever you thought NaNoWriMo was, it is more than that. \u2014 NaNoWriMo\nwebsite<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following is excerpted from an article by Grant Faulkner,\nNov\/Dec 2016, Writers Digest magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWharton professor Katherine Milkman and her colleagues\nfound that we\u2019re most likely to set new goals around \u2018temporal landmarks\u2019: a\nbirthday, a holiday, the start of a new semester\u2014or a new month, such as National\nNovel Writing Month. These milestones create a new \u2018mental accounting period\u2019\n(past lapses are forgiven, and we have a clean slate ahead of us) and prompt us\nto turn our gaze toward a better vision of what we want for ourselves and how\nwe can achieve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NaNoWriMo invites you to generate many new ideas\u2014to rip\nthrough failures, learn from them and build on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I like to think of Nano-ing as excavating. You uncover different things at the 30,000-word mark than you do at 10,000,” says Erin Morgenstern, who wrote the rough draft of The Night Circus<\/em> during NaNoWriMo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sense of playful wonder is important for writing mastery,\nand NaNoWriMo teaches you to trust the gambols of your imagination, to test\nyour ideas on the page. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, the\nblank page becomes a spacious place, a playground. So what if your writing\nfeels a bit sloppy? It\u2019s just a first draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NaNoWriMo gives you the opportunity to reflect on your writing, to understand what creative approaches work for you, and to develop the grit, resilience and can-do gusto of a true master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to find time to write when you have no time.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Need ideas for when your stuck? How about doing a 15-minute freewrite<\/a> as a warm-up before your writing? You can use writing prompts<\/a> for freewrites and they might just end up in your novel, or help you get your characters from Point A to Point B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just Write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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