[stylist] November is "Novel/Book Month

[Shelley J. Alongi]

Hey Guys, Nanowrimo.com has been around for several years. Every November 
they sponsor a challenge it's not really a contest. You write a fifty 
thousand word novel and compete against yourself. When you are done you 
upload the novel to the site which counts the words and then gives you a 
certificate which you can print out saying you did it. One other month, it 
was March the last itme I looked, is editing month. The idea behind this is 
to write a novel with no editing, just a story from beginning to end, a 
fifty thousand word novel, dont' worry about perfecting it just do it and 
then after you have the word count then work on the perfecting part. It is a 
challenge to see if you can actually write a novel. I did it once. I'll go 
look on the other computer and tell you what the titel was. I started to do 
it a second month but didn't finish though I still have the idea. I think 
the novel was called Forgiving Sky about a pilot rehabilitating after an 
accident, or it was a mechanic. I don't know whatever happened to the 
certificate. I learned about this in one of my history classes, some people 
formed a writing group and so I took the challenge. It was a lot of work but 
I did it. The novel is actually up on the storymania site which is at the 
end of my email. You have to look for the title called Forgiving Sky


Shelley J. Alongi
Cell/text: (714) 525-9632
Read my Metrolink writings and other essays and stories
http://www.storymania.com/cgibin/sm2/smshowauthorbox.cgi?page=1&author=AlongiSJ&alpha=A

Updated: October 16, 2010
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "writers nfb" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:58 PM
Subject: [stylist] November is "Novel/Book Month


> Dear STYLIST members
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> I received the following email, a notice of 'November being "Novel' (book)
> month." And a contest. I went to the site and didn't get too far into 
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> looked interesting. See what you think! (Report back if there is super 
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> or other treasure there for us. Thanks
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> From: "Robert Sellers" <robertsellers500 at comcast.net>
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> To: "'NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List'" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:14 AM
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> Subject: [nfbwatlk] FYI for writers
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> November is  apparently 'novel' (book) month.
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> There is a web site for which writers can enter a contest. It is:
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> http://www.nanowrimo.org/
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> Perhaps someone can pass this onto the writers division list serve.
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> They may already know about it, but in case they don't.
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> Robert Leslie Newman
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> President- NFB Writers' Division
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> Division Website
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> Personal Website-
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